TWiGCP — “VMWare on GCP, L7 internal LB, and still more database options”

Here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud’s video series :

• What’s happening in BigQuery: New persistent user-defined functions, increased concurrency limits, GIS and encryption functions, and more
• How to use BigQuery ML for anomaly detection
• Tutorial: Migrating from MySQL to Cloud SQL using automated workflow
• Google Cloud Certification — Professional Data Engineer

Top GCP stories for this past week include :

• VMware Cloud Foundation comes to Google Cloud (Google blog)
• Driving enterprise modernization with Google Cloud infrastructure (Google blog) #TrafficDirector #L7InternalLB
• New GCP database options to power your enterprise workloads (Google blog) #SQLServer #FederatedQueries #ElasticCloud
• Least privilege for Cloud Functions using Cloud IAM (Google blog)
• Using AI to give doctors a 48-hour head start on life-threatening illness (deepmind.com)

From the “from the people using Cloud Functions and Cloud Run” department :

• Rate-limiting serverless functions with Redis and VPC Connector (cloud.google.com)
• Cloud Run VS Cloud Functions: What’s the lowest cost? (medium.com)
• How to reach on premise resources with Serverless products ?(medium.com)
• Continuous Deployment to Cloud Run Services based on a New Container Image (fullstackgcp.com)
• Google Cloud Run on Kubernetes (ramblings.mcpher.com)

From the ever-growing “How-to” department :

• Develop your Cloud Tasks pipeline locally with ngrok! (medium.com)
• Google Cloud SQL Proxy — Installing as a Service on GCE (jhanley.com)
• How to use BigQuery ML for anomaly detection (Google blog)
• Tutorial: Using Cloud Memorystore for Redis as a game leaderboard (cloud.google.com)
• Migrating from Kubernetes Deployment to Knative Serving (medium.com)
• How to integrate Dialogflow with Genesys PureEngage (Google blog)

From the “lovely community contribution” department :

• CloudBuild: Open-sourcing Cancelot (medium.com)

From the “lovely graphs for nasty violations” department :

• Understand GCP Organization resource hierarchies with Forseti Visualizer (Google blog)

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

• Reaching for the sky: Japanese businesses embrace Google Cloud for digital transformation (Google blog)
• Bringing hybrid and multi-cloud to our APAC customers with Anthos (Google blog)
• A sound investment: How Monex is building a fintech ecosystem with APIs (Google blog)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 256.0.0
• [GA] Traffic Director
• [GA] Compute Engine C2 machine types
• [GA] Anthos 1.0.1
• [GA] Scheduling BigQuery queries
• [Beta] Layer 7 Internal Load Balancer beta
• [v0.6] Kubeflow: A robust foundation for Artifact Tracking, Data Versioning & Multi-user support (medium.com)
• [Alpha] Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server
• [Alpha] Google Cloud Game Servers

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Video] GKE On-Prem Origin, an interview with Weston (KubeCon 2019, Barcelona) (youtube.com)
• [Videos] GCP This Month: Watch the latest videos (acloud.guru)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #64 — Cloud Code, with Sarah D’Angelo and Patrick Flynn (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #188 — Conversation AI with Priyanka Vergadia (gcppodcast.com)

This week’s picture is taken from the Forseti Visualizer post

That is all for this week, the next recap will come late August!
-Alexis