TWiGCP — “Cloud Next OnAir is here! Also, A100 GPU, Active Assist, Data QnA, and GreenLake”
Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir starts this Tuesday (July 14th) with Thomas Kurian’s Keynote at 9am PT. Be sure to tune in!
Other top GCP stories for this past week include :
- Announcing Google Cloud A2 VM family based on NVIDIA A100 GPU (Google blog)
- Introducing Active Assist: Reduce complexity, maximize your cloud ROI (Google blog)
- Ask questions to BigQuery and get instant answers through Data QnA (Google blog)
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise GreenLake for Anthos now generally available (Google blog)
- Enhancing multi-cloud data governance on Google Cloud — Collibra (Google blog)
- An update on our work on AI and responsible innovation (blog.google)
From the “300th SDK, it’s about time we get a cheat sheet” department :
From the “Training and certification — now is the time” department :
- New research on how Google Cloud certifications are transforming careers and businesses (Google blog)
- Build your cloud skills at Next ’20 OnAir: No-cost training opportunities (Google blog)
From the “New to Google Cloud or old-timer, there’s something to learn” department :
From the “Google Cloud Security, from fundamentals to specifics” department :
- How can Google Cloud help with security of your apps? | by Priyanka Vergadia (medium.com)
- A List of Firestore Security Rules for Your Firebase Project (medium.com)
From the “the more newsletters, the better” department :
- GCP Digest — Handcrafted biweekly newsletter of highlights in Google Cloud. Not a bunch of links (gcpdigest.com)
From the “Solutions to common customer problems” department :
- Serverless network endpoint groups overview | Load Balancing (cloud.google.com)
- Traffic Director setup with VMs and automated Envoy deployment (cloud.google.com)
- Scheduling Memorystore for Redis database exports using Cloud Scheduler (cloud.google.com)
- terraform skeleton | by Rafael Alvarez (medium.com)
- Breaking up very large BigQuery jobs | by Patrick Dunn (medium.com)
From “Data structuring is everything” department :
- Apache Atlas and Google Data Catalog comparison (medium.com)
From the “SAP for hands-on practitioners” department :
- SAP on Google Cloud : When SAP Developers join the cloud (pt. 1) | by Lucía Subatin (medium.com)
From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- [Podcast] vSpeaking Podcast Ep 162: Google Cloud VMware Engine (blogs.vmware.com)
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #111 — Scalability, with Wojciech Tyczynski (kubernetespodcast.com)
- [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #226 — Documentation in Developer Practices with Riona Macnamara (gcppodcast.com)
From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 300.0.0
- [GA] Dataproc component gateway
- [GA] SLO Monitoring
- [GA] GCE Creating a persistent disk clone from a source disk
- [GA] Cloud SQL PostgreSQL Point in time recovery
- [GA] BigQuery ASSERT
- [GA] Monitoring Query Language
- [Beta] Google Cloud Load Balancer for Serverless Compute
- [Beta] App Engine Go 1.14
- [Alpha] Cloud Dataproc Metastore
That is all for this week!
-Alexis