TWiGCP — “TensorFlow goes Enterprise and AppEngine Java goes up to 11”

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

• Exploring container security: Vulnerability management in open-source Kubernetes
• App Engine Java 11 is GA — deploy a JAR, scale it, all fully managed
• What’s happening in BigQuery: New features bring flexibility and scale to your data warehouse
• Use GKE usage metering to combat over-provisioning

Top GCP stories for this past week include :

• TensorFlow Enterprise: Supported, scalable, and seamless TensorFlow in the cloud (Google blog)
• Java 11 runtimes come to App Engine (Google blog)
• Celebrity Recognition now available to approved media & entertainment customers (Google blog)
• Federated queries for (Parquet and ORC) open source files now available (Google blog)
• Cloud block storage data protection — new features (Google blog)
• New encryption options for Google Kubernetes Engine (Google blog)
• Unity Simulation on Google Cloud helps you create visually rich simulations with massive scalability (Google blog)
• Improve your cloud security with Cloud Security Command Center and Event Threat Detection (Google blog)

From the “all things Ops” department :

• Writing custom Forseti Config Validator templates (Google blog)
• Integrating Policy Intelligence recommendations with infrastructure as code (Google blog)
• Understanding Stackdriver Audit Logs (medium.com)
• Reduce the cost of machine learning workflows with preemptible VMs and GPUs (Google blog)
• Disaster Recovery on Google Cloud: An Overview (medium.com)

From the “Data all the things” department :

• Cloud data warehousing with scripting, stored procedures (Google blog)
• Public dataset analytics competition now open (Google blog)
• Connecting to Google Cloud SQL — Thinking about it (medium.com)
• Data analytics pipelines prep tools can integrate with orchestrators (Google blog)
• Data replication from SAP apps to BigQuery in the cloud (Google blog)
• Analyzing the crisis with reddit and BigQuery: The 2019 Chilean protests (towardsdatascience.com)

From the “More about TF Enterprise and a look at the future of reinforcement learning” department :

• Access data in Google Cloud faster and easier with TensorFlow Enterprise (Google blog)
• AlphaStar: Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning (deepmind.com)

From the “raising the abstraction level, aka serverless” department :

• Knative = Kubernetes Networking++ (ahmet.im)
• Create an Autoscaling API with Firebase in just 10 minutes! (verygood.ventures)

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

• Bring Your Own IP addresses to Google Cloud, like Bitly (Google blog)
• Partnering with HCL Technologies to scale enterprise cloud adoption (Google blog)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 269.0.0
• [GA] GKE Application-layer Secrets Encryption
• [1.0] CloudEvents Reaches Version 1.0 (cncf.io)
• [Beta] BigQuery Querying externally partitioned data and loading externally partitioned data
• [Beta] Querying BigQuery Cloud Storage data in ORC, Parquet formats
• [Beta] Cloud Build — Creating GitHub app triggers

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Video] “How to use Event Threat Detection — Getting Started with Cloud Security Command Center” (youtube.com)
• [Video] “Cloud Pub/Sub Overview — Pub/Sub Made Easy” (youtube.com)
• [Video] “Deploy a Spring Boot Application to App Engine Java 11” (youtube.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #77 — Engineering Productivity and Testing, with Katharine Berry (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #201 — FACEIT with Maria Laura Scuri (gcppodcast.com)

This week’s picture illustrates the release of TensorFlow Enterprise

That is all for this week!
-Alexis