This week in Google Cloud — “Premium and Standard networking tiers, NYT Games on App Engine, Puppet for GCP, and a firewall for App Engine”
Here are last week’s GCP announcements :
- Premium Tier, Standard Tier. Choose the GCP global network performance characteristics that work for you
- Introducing App Engine firewall, an easy way to control access to your app
- PowerShell cmdlets for BigQuery!
- Introducing Puppet support for Google Cloud Platform
- Rolling your own private Ruby gem server on Google Cloud Platform
We were also treated to more Titan details and welcomed a new partner/customer :
From the “Cloud Dataflow was put to work last week” department :
- Analyzing errors in Cloud Dataflow with Stackdriver Error Reporting
- Guide to common Cloud Dataflow use-case patterns, Part 2
From the “There’s so much to learn” department :
- From data to insights: Preview a new Google Cloud training course for SQL analytics (Google blog)
- 100k+ took Lynda GCP courses, check them out (lynda.com)
From the “we don’t like to brag but these users benchmarks of Google perception APIs look great” department :
- You Shall Not Speak: Benchmarking Famous Speech Recognition APIs for Chatbots (blog.recast.ai)
- Comparing image tagging services: Google Vision, Microsoft Cognitive Services, Amazon Rekognition and Clarifai (blog.filestack.com)
From the “Kubernetes and Istio from the experts” department :
- How Kubernetes Initializers work — a new extension model that lets you write plugins for your clusters (ahmet.im)
- Kelsey Hightower’s latest tutorial: Running the Istio Pilot and Envoy based Ingress Controller on Kubernetes (github.com)
From the “GCP GPUs are dope” department :
- Launch a GPU-backed Google Compute Engine instance and setup Tensorflow, Keras and Jupyter (hackernoon.com)
- Running Jupyter notebooks on GPU on Google Cloud (medium.com)
From the “Apache Bean 2.1 and IO connectors” department :
- Apache Beam, version 2.1.0, is now available with new IOs, some Python streaming, etc… (beam.apache.org)
- Powerful and modular IO connectors with Splittable DoFn in Apache Beam (Google blog)
From our favorite “users talk best about GCP” department :
- Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine (open.nytimes.com)
- Using IoT and Machine Learning for Industrial Predictive Maintenance (Cloud ML Engine inside) (losant.com)
- Simplifying Big Data with Google Cloud Dataproc (medium.com)
- Google Cloud SQL — 4 ways (Spring) (medium.com)
- Tutorial to understand Public/Private Subnets by deploying simple applications (medium.com)
From the “Google Machine Learning solutions and a new video series” department :
- Running a distributed TensorFlow cluster on Google Compute Engine (Google Cloud)
- Using Distributed TensorFlow with Cloud ML Engine and Cloud Datalab (Google Cloud)
- AI Adventures, a new series by Yufeng G (medium.com)
For the Visual Studio users out there :
- Reviewing logs with the Stackdriver Logs Viewer (Google Cloud)
- Viewing error reports in Stackdriver (Google Cloud)
This week’s GCP Podcast (#00091) is “The Future of Media with Machine Learning with Amit Pande”.
The picture of the week compares the Premium and Standard network tiers :
That’s it for this week!