TWiGCP — “It’s raining GAs, Dopamine, and Go Cloud Functions around the corner”
From the “Cloud Functions delivering on the multi-language promise” department :
- “Google Cloud Functions for Go” (medium.com). Upcoming idiomatic Go (1.11) support.
From the “here’s a bunch of GA announcements” department :
- Cloud Bigtable regional replication now generally available (Google blog)
- Tesla V100 GPUs are now generally available (Google blog)
- Announcing updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and the general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech (Google blog)
- Automatic documentation for your Cloud Endpoints API, now in GA (Google blog)
Dopamine — “Introducing a New Framework for Flexible and Reproducible Reinforcement Learning Research” (Google blog). This new framework comes with a colab to get started.
From the “have you checked out Google Public Datasets lately?” department :
- Expanding our Public Datasets for geospatial and ML-based analytics (Google blog)
- Ethereum in BigQuery: a Public Dataset for smart contract analytics (Google blog)
From the “How-to” department :
- What makes TPUs fine-tuned for deep learning? (Google blog) #AmazingAnimations
- Preprocessing for TensorFlow pipelines with tf.Transform on Google Cloud (Google blog)
- Using BigQuery ML and BigQuery GIS together to predict NYC taxi trip cost (Google blog)
- Query a custom AutoML model with Cloud Functions and Firebase (medium.com)
- How to share Google Data Studio Dashboards and Reports (helpfullee.com)
- Bootiful GCP: Runtime Configuration with Spring Cloud GCP Runtime Config (5/8) (spring.io)
- Generating a mysqldump to import into Google Cloud SQL (blog.gabriela.io)
From the “collaboration on research and open source” department :
- Harvard and Google collaboration results in a Nature paper : “Forecasting earthquake aftershock locations with AI-assisted science” (Google blog)
- Open Match — Open Source matchmaking from Google and Unity (github.com)
From the “Strengthening Kubernetes as an Open Source Community project” department :
- Google Cloud grants $9M in credits for the operation of the Kubernetes project (Google blog)
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Receives $9 Million Cloud Credit Grant from Google Cloud to Fund Kubernetes Development, Empower Community (cncf.io)
From the “Latest GCP Solutions” department :
- Best Practices for Compute Engine Region Selection (there may be more at play than you had imagined)
- Architecture: Delivering Aggregated Travel Data with Minimal Latency
From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 214.0.0
- [GA] Cloud Storage Customer-Managed Encryption Keys
- [GA] Overview of Billing Access Control and Create Custom Roles for Billing
- [Alpha] Go on Cloud Functions
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- The first video of season 2 in the #DevOps vs #SRE series is here (youtube.com)
- GCP Podcast Episode #144 — Mercari with Taichi Nakashima and Tonghui (Terry) Li (gcppodcast.com)
- Kubernetes Podcast Episode #18 — Supporting Kubernetes, with Ken Massada (kubernetespodcast.com)
- BigQuery ML — Machine Learning using SQL in BigQuery (youtube.com)
- AWS aficionado Corey Quinn speaking to Google’s VP of Developer Relations Adam Seligman — “Kubernetes is Named After the Greek God of Spending Money on Cloud Services” (screaminginthecloud.com)
This week’s picture is from the Cloud Text-to-Speech improvement blog post :
That is all for this week!
-Alexis
