TWiGCP — “Ruby functions, Eventarc, a year of Google Research, and free training”

Top GCP stories for this past week include :

• Ruby comes to Cloud Functions (Google blog)
• Eventarc: A unified eventing experience in Google Cloud (Google blog)
• Democratization of real-time analysis with Google Cloud (Google blog)
• Google’s approach to secure software development and supply chain risk management (Google blog)
• Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021 (ai.googleblog.com)
• Kick-off 2021 with skill badges and free training (Google blog)

From the “day 2 Ops” department :

• Using Compute Engine’s OS patch management service (Google blog)
• Lock Statistics: Diagnose performance issues in Cloud Spanner (Google blog)
• Cloud Profiler provides app performance insights, without the overhead (Google blog)
• Loading complex CSV files into BigQuery using Google Sheets (Google blog)
• Provisioning Cloud Run with Cloud NAT using Terraform | by Jeremy Tangney (medium.com)
• Save money by scheduling Cloud SQL | by guillaume blaquiere (medium.com)
• Migrating applications between Kubernetes clusters | by Luca Prete (medium.com)

From the “paving the way for hybrid AI” department :

• Video intelligence machine learning improves pothole detection (Google blog)

From the “designing and configuring your Data Lake” department :

• Designing a Data Lake on GCP with Data Fusion and Composer | by Neha Joshi (medium.com)
• Framework for building a configuration driven Data Lake on GCP using Data Fusion and Composer | by Neha Joshi (medium.com)

From the “front-ending Serverless” department :

• GCP API Gateway with gRPC. Simple gRPC client/server for GCP API… | by salmaan rashid (medium.com)
• Cloud Run and Load balancing: go beyond your own project! | by guillaume blaquiere (medium.com)

From the “read this even if you’ve used the products before” department :

• Google Cloud Storage best practices: how to help ensure data privacy and security (Google blog)
• Secure access to your VMs in Google Cloud | by minherz (medium.com)

From the “leveraging Cloud Storage strong consistency” department :

• Implementing leader election on Google Cloud Storage (Google blog)

From the “Store as you go” department :

• Computing Time Series metrics at scale in Google Cloud | by David Sabater Dinter (medium.com)
• A Batch Driven CDC (Change Data Capture) Approach using Google Cloud Platform | by Carlos Augusto (medium.com)

From the “customers and partners solving real-world problems with GCP” department :

• Database migration helps Stubhub modernize with cloud (Google blog)
• A better developer experience with Cloud Operations and Wix’s Velo open web platform (Google blog)
• Choosing cloud-native Bigtable to save data warehouse costs (Google blog)
• Population health analytics with Google Cloud and OHDSI (Google blog)
• Workday uses Google Cloud AI to accelerate document processing (Google blog)
• Proving a scale-out cloud scenario for SAP financial products subledger delivers performance, scale and reliability (Google blog)

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Video] Running Kotlin on Google Cloud (youtube.com)
• [Video] Developing Backends with Kotlin and Spring Boot on Google Cloud (youtube.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode 133 — Cilium, with Thomas Graf (kubernetespodcast.com)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 323.0.0
• [GA] Cloud Spanner lock statistics
• [GA] Cloud Spanner query statistics
• [GA] Cloud Functions support for Node 14 and Python 3.9
• [GA] Cloud Build regionalized builds
• [GA] Cloud AI PyTorch 1.6 containers
• [GA] Cloud Build user-specified service accounts
• [GA] Filestore non-RFC1918 subnet range support
• [GA] Cloud Composer Network ACL support
• [GA] Recommendations AI has migrated to the Retail API
• [GA] Cloud VPC 1500 MTU for Cloud Interconnect
• [GA] Cloud SQL support for database/memory/total_usage
• [Preview] BigQuery Console improvements
• [Preview] Cloud Function support for Ruby
• [Preview] Cloud Logging sharing queries
• [Preview] Cloud Composer CMEK support
• [Preview] Cloud Composer restart the Airflow web server
• [Preview] Managed Microsoft AD Audit Logs
• [Preview] Dataproc Service Account Based Secure Multi-tenancy
• [Preview] Cloud Shared VPC support for interfaces other than nic0
• [Preview] Traffic Director support for TCP
• [Preview] Cloud CDN using negative caching
• [Preview] Cloud DNS API for updating ResourceRecordSets

This week’s picture is highlighting Functions support for Ruby

That is all for this week!
-Alexis