TWiGCP — “Apigee still acing it, new GCE/GKE trainings, and DLP in the Console”
Here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud video series:
- Transitioning a typical engineering ops team into an SRE powerhouse
- Don’t get pwned: practicing the principle of least privilege
- Optimize your Google Cloud environment with new AI-based recommenders
- Take time for discovery and assessment — and consider a partner — for a successful cloud migration
Other top GCP stories for this past week include :
- Google Cloud named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management for the fourth consecutive time (Google blog) #Apigee
- Compute Engine or Kubernetes Engine? New trainings teach you the basics of architecting on Google Cloud (Google blog)
- Take charge of your data: Scan for sensitive data in just a few clicks (Google blog) #DLP #CloudConsole
- Google AI Blog: Exploring Massively Multilingual, Massive Neural Machine Translation (ai.googleblog.com)
From the “Best architectural practices” department :
- Using Cloud Tasks to trigger Cloud Functions (cloud.google.com)
- DNS Best practices (cloud.google.com)
- Push configuration with zero downtime using Cloud Pub/Sub and Spring Framework (Google blog)
- Scaling Web App on Google Compute Engine (medium.com)
- Protecting your GCP infrastructure at scale with Forseti Config Validator part two: Scanning for labels (Google blog)
- How to backup your Firestore data automatically (dev.to)
- “IoT Data Pipelines in GCP, multiple ways — Part 1” by Jerry Jalava (medium.com)
From the ”Quick Cloud Run rundown” department :
- ☁️Serverless gRPC with Cloud Run (medium.com)
- Migrating to Google Cloud Run Serverless Container Platform (medium.com)
- Cloud Run User Experience Survey (docs.google.com)
From the “Know your cloud, know your cost” department :
- Optimizing Your GCP Costs (google.qwiklabs.com)
- Surviving traffic spike from Hacker News: my dreaded Google Cloud invoice (medium.com) #
- “Beyond Your Bill” video series (youtube.com)
From the “Latest solutions” department :
- Resource mappings from on-premises hardware to GCP (cloud.google.com)
- Mass VM migrations to GCP with Migrate for Compute Engine (cloud.google.com)
- Cloning a Microsoft SQL Server database on Compute Engine (cloud.google.com)
- Setting up advanced notifications for Cloud SQL maintenance using Monitoring (cloud.google.com)
From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :
- How Traveloka brings partners in for a smooth landing with APIs (Google blog)
- S4 Agtech picks Google Cloud to transform agricultural risk management (Google blog)
From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 266.0.0
- [GA] Create VM from snapshot
- [GA] Dataproc Autoscaling
- [GA] Dataflow Python Streaming
- [GA] Dataflow Python 3 support (Apache Beam 2.16.0)
- [GA] Private DNS logging
- [1.0] Bazel 1.0
- [Beta] Cloud Asset Inventory Realtime feed v1.2
- [Beta] Cloud Build — Running builds on GitHub
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- [Video series] Serverless Toolbox (youtube.com)
- [Video] What’s in a Network, Anyways? (youtube.com)
- [Video] Disaster Recovery Overview (Get Cooking in Cloud) (youtube.com)
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #74 — Community and Contributor Experience, with Jorge Castro (kubernetespodcast.com)
- [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #198 — SeMI Technologies with Laura Ham (gcppodcast.com)
That is all for this week!
-Alexis
