TWiGCP — “Cassandra, VMware, WAF, and Ampere all come to Google Cloud”

Here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud video series:

• Learn about Google Cloud with the new Architecture Framework guide
• Easy access to stream analytics with SQL, real-time AI, and more
• Cloud OnBoard May 19th and 20th
• A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

Other top GCP stories for this past week include :

• DataStax brings Apache Cassandra as a service to Google Cloud (Google blog)
• Google Cloud VMware Engine is now generally available (Google blog)
• Google Cloud and NVIDIA’s enhanced partnership accelerates computing workloads (Ampere architecture and the A100 Tensor Core GPU) (Google blog)
• New WAF capabilities in Cloud Armor for on-prem and cloud workloads (Google blog)

From the “Day #2 hands-on” department :

• Learn about Google Cloud with the new Architecture Framework guide (Google blog)
• Learn about logging on Google Kubernetes Engine (Google blog)
• Hands-on VPC Peering Configuration on GCP (medium.com)
• Container Load Balancing on Google Kubernetes Engine(GKE) (medium.com)
• Performing a PITR of a PostgreSQL database on Compute Engine (cloud.google.com)
• Creating a change log with JDBC using the commit timestamp feature of Cloud Spanner (cloud.google.com)
• Getting Audio Data from Text (Text to Speech) and play it in your browser. (Part IV) (medium.com)
• Principles of cloud cost optimization (Google blog)

From the “BigQuery for fun and profit” department :

• Using BigQuery Flex Slots to run machine learning workloads more efficiently (medium.com)
• BigQuery: deltas to latest (ARRAY_AGG) (medium.com)

From the “Now that Cloud Data Catalog is GA” department :

• Google Cloud Data Catalog — Integrate Your On-Prem RDBMS Metadata (medium.com)
• Google Cloud Data Catalog (now GA) and Tableau integration (using custom-types) (medium.com)

From the “Taking for the YouTube-8M Dataset for a run” department :

• YouTube-8M Dataset (medium.com)
• YouTube-8M on AI Platform (medium.com)

From the “Cloud Run for hype and legacy” department :

• Deno on Cloud Run (medium.com)
• Connecting Kubernetes privately from Cloud Run over VPC Network (ahmet.im)

From the “Manage risk and take advantage of the Cloud” department :

• Planning for a successful cloud migration (Google blog)
• Java app modernization with Anthos (Google blog)
• Google Cloud Armor with hybrid deployments (cloud.google.com)

From the “Come for the fight, stay for the insights” department :

• Why I think GCP is better than AWS — Fernando Villalba (medium.com)

From the “Go flame graphs” department :

• Continuous Profiling of Go programs (medium.com)

From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :

• How Khan Academy Successfully Handled 2.5x Traffic in a Week (engineering.khanacademy.org)
• A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case (Google blog)
• Multipharma is running SAP S/4HANA for Retail on Google Cloud (Google blog)
• How Frichti uses Google Maps Platform (Google blog)

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Live show] A very special BigQuery Day, May 20th (The Data Show, w/ Felipe Hoffa & Yufeng Guo) (youtube.com)
• [Video] Introduction to JAX (AI Adventures) (youtube.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #103 — CSI: Storage, with Saad Ali (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #220 — Strise with Marit Rødevand (gcppodcast.com)

From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :

• [GA] Cloud SDK 292.0.0
• [GA] Idle PD recommendations
• [GA] Cloud Spanner query statistics tables
• [GA] GCE Sole-tenant autoscaler
• [GA] Monitoring a Cloud Bigtable Instance
• [GA] 8 new Cloud SQL Postgresql extensions
• [1.3.0] Cloud Code for VS Code
• [Beta] Cloud Run Connecting to VPC
• [Beta] Security Command Center
• [Beta] Container Threat Detection
• [Beta] Exchange rates
• [Beta] Monitoring Query Language

This week’s picture is taken from the post about the latest Cloud Armor features

That is all for this week!
-Alexis