TWiGCP — “Cloud inference API and loads of GA releases”

With Cloud Next coming to Tokyo, last week treated us to a good number of GA and other important announcements :

• Introducing Cloud Inference API: uncover insights from large scale, typed time-series data (Google blog). See also this article on GDELT’s use of this new API (forbes.com)
• Announcing general availability of Cloud Memorystore for Redis (Google blog)
• Unlock insights with ease: Data Studio and Cloud Dataprep are now generally available (Google blog)
• Guard against security vulnerabilities in your software supply chain with Container Registry vulnerability scanning (Google blog)
• Introducing new Cloud Source Repositories (Google blog)
• A New TensorFlow Hub Web Experience (medium.com)
• Working with NEC to better serve Japanese enterprises (Google blog)

From the “learning data science” department :

• Advanced Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform is now available on Coursera (Google blog)
• New Qwiklabs Quest available: Data Science on Google Cloud Platform (Google blog)

From the “how-to DevOps on GCP” department :

• Kubernetes Engine — Using Container-native Load Balancing (Google documentation)
• Create A Cloud Build Image Factory Using Packer (Google Cloud Community tutorial)
• Infrastructure as Code Workshop with Terraform, Google Cloud Source Repositories and Cloud (github.com)
• Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Patterns and Practices (Google documentation)
• Infrastructure as Code on GCP (Google documentation) #DeploymentManager #Terraform #Packer #Chef #Puppet #Ansible

From my favorite “customers talk best about GCP” department :

• We’re on (Google) cloud nine (blog.etsy.com)
• Ibis and BigQuery (at Two Sigma): scalable analytics with the comfort of Python (Google blog)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 217.0.0
• [GA] assign key-value labels to Pub/Sub resources
• [GA] Loading ORC Data from Google Cloud Storage
• [GA] Cloud Memorystore for Redis
• [GA] Cloud Dataprep
• [GA] TensorFlow Hub
• [Beta] Container Registry Vulnerability Scanning

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Video] Camels, Code & Lab Coats: How AI Is Advancing Science and Medicine (youtube.com)
• [Podcast] Kelsey Hightower and Chris Gaun on serverless and Kubernetes (oreilly.com)
• [Video] Getting Started with TensorFlow.js (youtube.com)
• [Video] Puppeteer on Cloud Functions (youtube.com)
• [Video] TensorFlow 2.0 Changes (youtube.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes SIG-PM, with Ihor Dvoretskyi (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Podcast] DL Indaba: AI Investments in Africa (gcppodcast.com)

This week’s picture is taken from the Container Registry vulnerability scanning post :

That is all for this week!
-Alexis