TWiGCP “Back from Next ’19 !” #171

Whether or not you were one of the 35K attendees at Google Cloud Next ’19, it was probably tough to keep pace with all the announcements. So here’s a GCP and practitioner-focused recap of the conference!

Main announcements included :

• Introducing Anthos: An entirely new platform for managing applications in today’s multi-cloud world (Google blog)
• Bringing the best of open source to Google Cloud customers (Google blog)
• Announcing Cloud Code — accelerating cloud-native application development (Google blog)
• Announcing Cloud Run, the newest member of our serverless compute stack (Google blog)
• Expanding Google Cloud AI to make it easier for developers to build and deploy AI (Google blog). AI Platform & AutoML (Tables, Video Intelligence, Vision, Natural Language)
• From data ingestion to insight prediction: Google Cloud smart analytics accelerates your business transformation (Google blog). Cloud Data Fusion, Dataflow FlexRS, Cloud Dataflow SQL, Cloud Data Catalog, Connected sheets, etc.
• Powering enterprise transformation: Announcing new additions to Google Cloud Networking (Google blog). Traffic director, High Availability VPN, and 100 Gbps Interconnect
• Simplifying identity and access management of your employees, partners, and customers (Google blog). Cloud IAP / BeyondCorp, Cloud Identity, Managed Service for Microsoft AD
• Enterprise databases, managed for you (Google blog). Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server, for PostgreSQL
• Making Google Cloud the best place to run your Microsoft Windows applications (Google blog). GCE, BYOL, Managed Service for Microsoft AD
• Unlocking the power of AI with solutions designed for every enterprise (Google blog). Document Understanding AI, Contact Center AI, Vision Product Search, Recommendations AI, AutoML Tables
• Choose your own environment with Apigee hybrid API management (Google blog)
• What’s cooler than being cool? Ice cold archive storage (Google blog)
• Google Cloud announces new regions in Seoul and Salt Lake City (Google blog)
• Increasing trust in Google Cloud: visibility, control and automation (Google blog)

From the “meanwhile from the community on the interwebs” department :

• “Google Cloud Run for Go” (medium.com)
• “Using Google Cloud AI Platform Notebooks as a Web-Based Python IDE” (medium.com)
• “This Week in Programming: Google Cloud’s Shock and Awe Campaign” (thenewstack.io)
• “How Google Cloud Run Combines Serverless with Containers” (thenewstack.io)
• “Simplifying Continuous Deployment to Cloud Run with Cloud Build including Custom Domain Setup(SSL)” (medium.com)
• “Google Cloud Run Deploy and Elasticity Benchmark” (medium.com)

From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :

• Australia Post delivers online and in-person for customers (Google blog)
• How Unilever uses Google Cloud to optimize marketing campaigns (Google blog)
• Customer Stories: Transforming businesses with Cloud AI Platform (youtube.com)
• Google Cloud Customer Innovation Series — Part 1 (youtube.com)
• Google Cloud Customer Innovation Series — Part 2 (youtube.com)
• Customer Stories: Transforming Businesses with Cloud AI Solutions (youtube.com)
• Serverless in the Real World: Customer Stories from Smart Cities — Retail Analytics (youtube.com)
• Anthos Migrate Real-World Customer Scenarios (youtube.com)
• GCP Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Customer Panel (youtube.com)
• How Customers Are Migrating Hadoop to Google Cloud Platform (youtube.com)

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

• [GA] Cloud Video Intelligence API — Tracking objects
• [GA] Cloud Video Intelligence API — Recognizing text
• [GA] Shielded VMs
• [GA] Cloud Bigtable Multi-region Replication
• [GA] Cloud Filestore
• [GA] Stackdriver Profiler
• [GA] Cloud Functions Node.js 8.15.0
• [GA] Cloud Functions Go 1.11.5
• [GA] Cloud Functions Python 3.7.1
• [GA] Cloud Scheduler
• [GA] Cloud Tasks
• [Beta] VPC Log sampling, aggregation, and downsampling
• [Beta] Cloud Storage Signed URLs
• [Beta] Cloud AutoML Natural Language Sentiment analysis
• [Beta] CloudSQL PostgreSQL 11.1
• [Beta] reCAPTCHA Enterprise
• [Beta] AutoML Vision Edge
• [Beta] Cloud AutoML Vision Object Detection documentation
• [Beta] Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancing
• [Beta] Cloud AutoML Tables
• [Beta] Cloud AI Hub
• [Beta] Recommendations AI
• [Beta] Cloud Data Fusion
• [Beta] Google Groups for GKE
• [Beta] Cloud Functions Node.js 10 Beta
• [Beta] Cloud Code for VS Code
• [Alpha] Intellij Cloud Code plugin

From the “I’m sure Alexis forgot a few announcements” department :

• News to build on: 122+ announcements from Google Cloud Next ’19 (Google blog)

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [YouTube] All Sessions (450+!) — Google Cloud Next ’19
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #48 — Anthos Migrate, with Issy Ben-Shaul (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #170 — Next 2019 Day 1 (gcppodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #171 — Next 2019 Day 2 (gcppodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #172 — Next 2019 Day 3 (gcppodcast.com)

This week’s pictures are a courtesy of Ahmet Alp Balkan (@ahmetb)

This week’s pictures are a courtesy of Ahmet Alp Balkan (@ahmetb)

That is all for this week!
-Alexis