TWiGCP — “Welcoming Dataform, Dataproc Hub, and Cloud Run min-instances”
Top GCP stories for this past week include :
- Dataproc Hub makes notebooks easier to use for machine learning (Google blog)
- Cloud Run adds min instances feature for latency-sensitive apps (Google blog)
- Forrester Research names Google Cloud a leader in its latest IaaS Platform Native Security Wave (Google blog)
From the “Welcoming Dataform to Google Cloud (now free for all)” department :
- Welcoming Dataform to BigQuery: Create and manage your data transformations within your data warehouse (Google blog)
- Building SQL pipelines in BigQuery with Dataform | by Lak Lakshmanan (medium.com)
From the “time to get trained” department :
- No-cost Google Cloud learning opportunities in December 2020 (Google blog)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Essential Training for Developers (linkedin.com)
From the “Microsoft workloads on Google Cloud“ department :
- Migrating Microsoft workloads to Google Cloud yields results (Google blog)
- Move Windows workloads to cloud with Google Cloud storage (Google blog)
From the “VPN-less security” department :
- What is zero trust identity security (Google blog)
- Control Access to your Web Sites with Identity-Aware Proxy (Google blog)
From the “Pub/Sub enabling elegant architectures” department :
- Move from batch to stream processing for real-time analytics with Pub/Sub (Google blog)
- Kalman Filters, Pub/Sub, and Birdwatching | by Tianzi Cai (medium.com)
From the “Cloud Architect delicatessen” department :
- Preparing your MySQL database for migration with Database Migration Service (Google blog)
- How to develop secure and scalable serverless APIs (Google blog)
- GCE — Scaling based on schedules (cloud.google.com)
- GKE — Automatically created firewall rules (cloud.google.com)
From the “Faster Dataproc and parallel computing” department :
- Build faster machine learning Dataproc clusters (Google blog)
- Dask on Dataproc (Google blog)
From the “No-hassle shell command orchestration” department :
- Run shell commands and orchestrate Compute Engine VMs with Cloud Workflows | by Márton Kodok (medium.com)
From the “3 steps to extract data from documents” department :
- Using Document AI to automate procurement workflows (Google blog)
From the “Tech for Good” department :
From the “customers and partners solving real-world problems with GCP” department :
- Announcing new work with the Rubin Observatory and advances in astronomy with Google Cloud (Google blog)
- Running Google Cloud SQL for high performance, lower cost (Google blog)
- Samsung Bixby training gets 18x speed boost with Cloud TPU (Google blog)
- How a 3D printing company migrated its databases to Cloud SQL (Google blog)
- Why and how to run Esri GIS applications on Google Cloud (Google blog)
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode 131 — Kubernetes 1.20, with Jeremy Rickard (kubernetespodcast.com)
- [Video] How to run multiple versions of Python in Cloud Run
- [Video] 6 strategies for scaling your serverless applications
- [Video] Autoscaling with GKE: Clusters and nodes
From the “Preview, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 320.0.0
- [GA] Migrating a GCE VM between networks
- [GA] VPC Packet Mirroring
- [GA] VPC Security Controls
- [GA] Redis AUTH on Memorystore for Redis
- [GA] Max number of failures for Dataproc job
- [GA] Cloud Spanner LOCK_SCANNED_RANGES exclusive lock
- [Preview] GCE scaling based on schedules
- [Preview] GCE rename an instance
- [Preview] Identity-Aware Proxy for TCP forwarding
- [Preview] DNS peering for private services access
- [1.6.0] Anthos
- [20.12.2] Cloud Code for IntelliJ
- [1.7.1] Cloud Code for VS Code
That is all for this week!
-Alexis
