TWiGCP — “Being a vision-ary, tools for threats, using Tasks, and football RL”
Here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud video series:
- Bare Metal Solution: Enabling specialized workloads in Google Cloud
- Advancing control and visibility in the cloud
- Introducing Batch on GKE — modernizing HPC with Kubernetes in the cloud
- Don’t just move to the cloud, modernize with Google Cloud
Top GCP stories for this past week include…
From the “Vision-ary” department :
- Google Cloud a Leader in Forrester’s New Wave for Computer Vision Platforms (Google blog)
- AI and machine learning improve manufacturing visual inspection process (Google blog)
From the “get your Kubernetes fix from Google” department :
- Security considerations for Google Kubernetes Engine (Google blog)
- Anthos: Google’s bid for Kubernetes differentiation … and market share (theregister.co.uk)
- Migrating from Compute Engine to Kubernetes Engine with Migrate for Anthos (medium.com)
From the “understanding and managing threats” department :
- Google Cloud Armor adds WAF, telemetry features (Google blog)
- Google Cloud BrandVoice: Security Means Understanding Assets, Adversaries, And Threats (forbes.com)
From the “Google meeting customers at industry events” department :
- Advancing the medical imaging field with cloud-based solutions at RSNA (Google blog)
- Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s 9 Boldest Statements At Next ’19 UK (crn.com)
From the “Tooling meets logging” department :
From the “It’s called football for a reason” department :

From the “GCP users on Medium sharing their experiences and best practices” department :
- Building Artifacts on the Cloud (medium.com)
- Join, Group By and Aggregate in Cloud Data Fusion (medium.com)
From the “Following up on the recent GA release or Cloud Tasks” department :
- Cloud Tasks is a little stateful (medium.com)
- Don’t make users wait: async queues with Cloud Run and Cloud Tasks (youtube.com)
- Cloud Tasks — Task triggered service (github.com)
From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :
- “Adopting Kubernetes with Spotify — Stack Chat” (youtube.com)
- Talgo Case Study (cloud.google.com)
- Allied Irish Bank: Building Digital Foundations with APIs (Google blog)
- Uniqlo uses Google image recognition to find great outfits (fastcompany.com)
From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 273.0.0
- [GA] Cloud to Speech automatic punctuation
- [GA] Draining NAT IP addresses
- [Beta] Cloud Armor WAF
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #81 — Vitess, with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane (kubernetespodcast.com)
- [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #204 — DevOps with Nathen Harvey and Jez Humble (gcppodcast.com)
That is all for this week!
-Alexis