TWiGCP — “Node on GAE Standard, QUIC on GCP, improved Dataflow streaming, and better preemptible GPU pricing”
It’s been a while since App Engine Standard added a new language — “Now, you can deploy your Node.js app to App Engine standard environment” (Google Blog). Note that this is App Engine Standard with scale to zero, fast deploys, and support for native modules.
Introducing QUIC support for HTTPS load balancing (Google Blog). Single-click enable QUIC in your load balancer and improve your mean page load time by 8% or more.
Introducing Cloud Dataflow’s new Streaming Engine (Google Blog). Shuffle data and store time window state in a backend service with this opt-in beta feature.
Try full-stack monitoring with Stackdriver on us (Google Blog). Test all Stackdriver premium features for free for the rest of the month.
Partner Interconnect now generally available (Google Blog). A couple of months from beta to GA with a large choice of partners and bandwidth options.
Introducing improved pricing for Preemptible GPUs (Google Blog). Price-drop + preemptible = GPUs for everyone.
For all the Soccer/Football fans out there: “Making World Cup Sausage with Cloud Dataflow and BigQuery” (medium.com)
From the “it’s time to look into better container tools” department :
- Skaffold and Kaniko: Bringing Kubernetes to Developers (medium.com)
- Skaffold Release v0.7.0 (github.com)
From the “GCP data services outrank the competition” department:
- 2018 Anaconda State of Data Science Report Released (anaconda.com)
From the “key partner progress report” department :
- The latest on our work with Cisco to help businesses on their journey to the cloud (Google Blog)
- Google Adds SAP HANA Managed Service to Cloud Platform Partnership (Google Blog)
From my favorite “Customers talk best about GCP” department :
- Behind the scenes with the Dragon Ball Legends GCP backend (Google Blog) #Spanner #Dataflow #BigQuery #Networking
- Scaling Kubernetes for 25M users (medium.com)
- How Spotify is migrating from an in-house Docker orchestration platform to Kubernetes (ciodive.com)
From the “Best practices” department :
From the “In case you missed it” department :
- [Beta] Protecting Resources with Cloud KMS Keys (Google documentation)
- [Beta] Cloud Audit — Configuring Data Access logs with the GCP Console (Google documentation)
From the “all things podcast” department:
- GCP Podcast #131 — Actions on Google with Mandy Chan (gcppodcast.com)
- Kubernetes Podcast #7 — Kustomize, with Phillip Wittrock (kubernetespodcast.com)
This week’s picture is taken from “Behind the scenes with the Dragon Ball Legends GCP backend”. Just because.
That is all for this week!
-Alexis
