TWiGCP — “Serverless delivers, trust your binaries, and better Cloud Firestore”

… and we’re back!

First things first, we now have a consolidated and improved home for Google Cloud blog posts. tl;dr: cloud.google.com/blog

Second, a reminder that a Cloud Next ’18 conference recap is available here (medium.com)

From the “delivering on the Next ’18 Serverless promises” department :

• Cloud Functions serverless platform is generally available (Google blog)
• Introducing App Engine Second Generation runtimes and Python 3.7 (Google blog) #Django2
• Introducing PHP 7.2 runtime on the App Engine standard environment (Google blog) #WordPress #Laravel #Symfony #Slim
• Introducing headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine (Google blog) #Puppeteer
• How we brought the latest version of Python to App Engine and Cloud Functions (Google blog) #gVisor
• What’s new in App Engine with Steren Giannini and Stewart Reichling (gcppodcast.com)

From the “security at every layer” department:

• Deploy only what you trust: introducing Binary Authorization for Google Kubernetes Engine (Google blog)
• Using your existing identity management system with Google Cloud Platform (Google blog)
• Protecting against the new “L1TF” speculative vulnerabilities (Google blog)

From the “Firebase + GCP” department :

• Expanding the Cloud Firestore beta to more users (Google blog)
• Migrating from Datastore to Firestore (youtube.com). 8 must-watch minutes!
• Better Arrays in Cloud Firestore! (Google blog)
• One project, multiple sites! Plus a boost in upload speed! (Google blog)

From the “Big Data OSS, DevUX, and built-in cloud services” department :

• Simple backup and replay of streaming events using Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Dataflow (Google blog)
• Managing Java dependencies for Apache Spark applications on Cloud Dataproc (Google blog)
• A review of input streaming connectors (beam.apache.org)

From my favorite “Google customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :

• King collaborates with Google Cloud for next-generation analytics and machine learning (medium.com)
• How Niantic labs migrated hundreds of millions of Pokémon GO user accounts from Google Datastore to Google Spanner (youtube.com)
• Don’t get the Google Cloud Bill Shock! (blog.doit-intl.com)
• Lessons Learned: Switching from CircleCI to Google Cloud Build (medium.com)
• Sidecars and DaemonSets: Battle of containerization patterns (wecode.wepay.com)
• How we deliver with GCP at the BBC (medium.com)
• Descartes Labs launches its geospatial analysis platform (techcrunch.com)
• Google Cloud Next: Geotab at the Forefront of AI for Smart Cities (geotab.com)
• Distributed optimization with Cloud Dataflow (ml2grow.com)

From the “back from Cloud Next ‘18” department:

• A closer look at our newest Google Cloud AI capabilities for developers (Cloud blog)
• Building a ML keynote demo for 100,000+ people (medium.com)
• Discovering Google Cloud Platform with Next ’18 (medium.com)
• Cloud Next 2018 — a whirlwind week at Google’s annual cloud conference (medium.com)

From the “Java developers get their share of Google Cloud love“ department :

• Access Google Cloud services, right from IntelliJ IDEA (Google blog)
• Calling Java developers: Spring Cloud GCP 1.0 is now generally available (Google blog)
• Bootiful GCP: Getting Started with Spring Cloud for Google Cloud Platform (1/8) (spring.io) #JoshLong

From the “what’s a monthly recap without a dedicated BigQuery section?” department :

• What’s happening in BigQuery: integrated machine learning, maps, and more (Google blog)
• Performing large-scale mutations in BigQuery (Google blog)
• How to do online prediction with BigQuery ML (towardsdatascience.com)
• Optimizing BigQuery: Cluster your tables (medium.com)
• Tips for using BigQuery in the enterprise (medium.com)

From the “Istio hits 1.0 milestone” department :

• Istio reaches 1.0: ready for prod (Google blog)
• Announcing Istio 1.0 (istio.io)
• Updated codelab for Istio 1.0.0 (codelabs.developers.google.com)
• Istio’s Networking API Explained (blog.sebastian-daschner.com)
• Battle Testing Istio 1.0 (medium.com)

From the “TensorFlow, AutoML, Cloud ML Engine” department :

• Hyperparameter tuning using TPUs in Cloud ML Engine (Google blog)
• How to do serverless machine learning with scikit-learn on Google Cloud ML Engine (towardsdatascience.com)
• Deep Learning Images For Google Cloud Engine, The Definitive Guide (blog.kovalevskyi.com)
• Developing Data and Machine Learning Apps with C# (google.qwiklabs.com)
• Get Started with Google Cloud AutoML Vision for Image Classification (thenewstack.io)
• 9 Things You Should Know About TensorFlow (hackernoon.com)
• TensorFlow 2.0 is coming (groups.google.com)
• TensorFlow For Poets (codelabs.developers.google.com)
• Moving Beyond Translation with the Universal Transformer (Google blog)

From the “handing over the machines to machines“ department :

• Google’s Use of AI to Manage Data Centers Enters a New Phase (datacenterknowledge.com)

From the “observe all the things” department :

• Drilling down into Stackdriver Service Monitoring (Google blog)
• Tracing Google Cloud (medium.com)
• OpenMetrics project accepted into CNCF Sandbox (Google blog)
• Infrastructure Monitoring with Mark Carter (softwareengineeringdaily.com)

From the “Cloud Native news” department :

• Kubernetes musings by chrislovecnm: GKE On-Prem (chrislovecnm.com)
• Introducing Kubebuilder: an SDK for building Kubernetes APIs using CRDs (kubernetes.io)
• Fortio: load testing library and command line tool and web UI in go (github.com)
• Take the gRPC Survey! (grpc.io)

From the “how-to” department :

• Sample cloud-native microservices application composed of 10 tiers (github.com)
• How to send ESP32 telemetry to Google Cloud IoT Core (linkedin.com)
• Update and Customize Queries on Your Cloud Firestore Data for Actions on Google (medium.com)

New Google Cloud Solutions:

• Building a Hybrid Render Farm
• Best Practices for Operating Containers
• Best Practices for Building Containers
• Creating a CI/CD pipeline with VSTS and Compute Engine

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

• [GA] Google Cloud SDK 213.0.0
• [GA] Regional Managed Instance Groups — Zone Selection
• [Beta] Microsoft SQL Server on Compute Engine — Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
• [Beta] BigQuery ML
• [Beta] BigQuery Clustered Tables
• [Beta] Cloud Organization setup wizard
• [Beta] Firestore — Managed Import/Export API
• [EAP] Cloud Scheduler EAP Sign Up
• [EAP] Cloud Tasks EAP Sign Up
• [Alpha] Autoscaling clusters

GCP Podcast recent Episodes

• Container Security with Maya Kaczorowski
• Accessibility in Tech with Haben Girma
• Agones with Mark Mandel and Cyril Tovena
• What’s new in App Engine with Steren Giannini and Stewart Reichling

Kubernetes Podcast recent Episodes :

• Knative, with Oren Teich
• Istio, with Jasmine Jaksic and Dan Ciruli
• Descartes Labs, with Tim Kelton
• Shopify and Security, with Jon Pulsifer

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• Cloud Labs Quest Preview — GCP Essentials (youtube.com)
• JHipster on Kubernetes / Google App Engine (youtube.com)
• App Engine’s new Scheduler Settings (youtube.com)
• Serverless Computing with Google Cloud (Siraj) (youtube.com)
• Migrating from Datastore to Firestore (youtube.com)
• The Right Disk Type for your GCE Performance Needs (youtube.com)
• Manning | Google Cloud Platform in Action (manning.com)
• Infrastructure Monitoring with Mark Carter (softwareengineeringdaily.com)

This week’s picture is taken from the Cloud Firestore beta post :

Phew, that is all for this week!
-Alexis