TWiGCP — “Next ’18 is here. Are you ready?”

Cloud Next ’18 week (g.co/next18) is here ! Expects keynotes, numerous sessions, a long list of exciting announcements, and for those lucky enough to attend, plenty of hallway conversations. Tune in on Tuesday morning for the business keynote, on Wednesday for the product keynote, and on Thursday for the developer keynote (all starting at 9am PT).

Here are also a few short-lists of not-to-be-missed sessions :

• Top storage and database sessions to check out at Next 2018
• 5 must-see network sessions at Google Cloud NEXT 2018
• Livestream these Data and Machine Learning sessions at GoogleNext2018

From the “small appetizer to Cloud Next ’18 announcements” department :

• Announcing Cirq: An Open Source Framework for NISQ Algorithms (Google blog)
• Introducing Data Transfer Project: an open source platform promoting universal data portability (Google Open Source blog)
• Now shipping: ultramem machine types with up to 4TB of RAM (Google blog)
• Delivering increased connectivity with our first private trans-Atlantic subsea cable (Google blog)
• Commercial Kubernetes Applications in the GCP Marketplace (Google blog). The list of applications is already substantial, check it out.
• Cloud Spanner adds import/export functionality to ease data movement (Google Blog)

From the “when partners deliver“ department:

• VMware and Google Cloud: building the hybrid cloud together with vRealize Orchestrator (Google Blog)
• Quickstart — Install Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Google Cloud Platform With One Command (github.com)

From “fundamental to practical to silly Google ML solutions“ department :

• Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude (Google blog)
• An Opinionated Introduction to AutoML and Neural Architecture Search (fast.ai)
• Getting started with AutoML Vision alpha (towardsdatascience.com)
• Move Mirror: You move and 80,000 images move with you (Google Blog)

From the “who’s not to like a comparison article” department:

• GCP and AWS: What’s the Difference? (bravenewgeek.com)

From the “richness of GCP on medium.com week after week” department:

• Uploading data to Cloud Datastore using Dataflow (medium.com)
• Query Data Scalably for Actions on Google using Cloud Firestore (medium.com)
• Codelab on fast image classification with ResNet on TPUs (medium.com)
• Using Google Pub/Sub Messaging with AppScale (blog.appscale.com)
• Push serial console output logs to Stackdriver and set alerts in GCP (medium.com)

From the “Using Google Cloud ML APIs with C# codelabs” departement:

• Using the Natural Language API with C#
• Using the Speech-to-Text API with C#
• Using the Text-to-Speech API with C#
• Using the Vision API with C#

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

• [GA] Cloud SQL for MySQL Replicating from an External Server (Google documentation)
• [Beta] Deep Learning Virtual Machine Image Documentation (Google documentation)
• [Beta] Using (Cloud Functions) Environment Variables (Google documentation)
• [Beta] Node.js and C# client libraries for Cloud Bigtable (Google documentation)
• [Beta] BigQuery UI in the GCP Console (Google documentation)
• [Beta] Bigtable Key Visualizer (Google documentation)
• Release Istio 1.0.0 Preview (github.com)

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• GCP Podcast #136 — Robotics, Navigation, and Reinforcement Learning with Raia Hadsell (gcppodcast.com)
• Kubernetes Podcast #12 — Kubernetes Origins, with Joe Beda (kubernetespodcast.com)

This week’s picture is taken from the first private trans-Atlantic subsea cable post :

That is all for this week!
-Alexis