TWiGCP — “Enhanced hybrid connectivity, tons of releases, and moar public datasets!”

Alexis MP

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Oct 21 · 2 min read

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

• Take charge of your data: Scan for sensitive data in just a few clicks
• Best practices for password management, 2019 edition
• Compute Engine or Kubernetes Engine? New trainings teach you the basics of architecting on Google Cloud
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon — North America 2019

Other top GCP stories for this past week include :

• Google Cloud 100 Gbps Dedicated Interconnect and HA VPN are GA (Google blog)
• Data visualizations easier with Grafana plugin for BigQuery (Google blog)
• Data analytics on public datasets from CARTO and BigQuery (Google blog)
• Stay in control of your security with new product enhancements in Google Cloud (Google blog) => Security Health Analytics in Beta

From the “single pane of glass vs. data segregation” department :

• Hybrid and multi-cloud monitoring and logging patterns (cloud.google.com)

From the “GDELT expands with new massive datasets” department :

• GDELT Global Entity Graph & new 11B entity dataset (blog.gdeltproject.org)
• GDELT Neural Sentiment Dataset (blog.gdeltproject.org)

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

• AirAsia: adopting a modern identity solution with Google Cloud (Google blog)
• API management and Guidion: Installing household services efficiently (Google blog)
• Black Knight and the quest to conquer an ecosystem of partners, developers, and customers with Apigee (Google blog)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 267.0.0
• [GA] Cloud Functions Max Instances
• [GA] 100 Gbps Dedicated Interconnect
• [GA] High Availability (HA) VPN
• [GA] Enable/Disable Service Account via API
• [GA] MySQL Regional Persistent Disk-based High Availability
• [GA] App Engine Standard Java11 Runtime
• [1.3.3] Announcing Istio 1.3.3
• [Beta] Cloud SQL for SQL Server
• [Beta] Hibernate ORM with Cloud Spanner
• [Beta] Security Health Analytics
• [Beta] App Engine Go 1.13
• [Beta] App Engine Node.js 12

That is all for this week!
-Alexis