TWiGCP — “G Suite (for developers), Recommendations AI, and proxyless services”

Cloud Next OnAir has now concluded week 2 (of 9): “Productivity and Collaboration”

Here are the relevant links :

• For the practitioners in the room — “Google Cloud Talks by DevRel”
• Week 2 recap of Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir
• Next OnAir as it happens: All the announcements in one place
• Your Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir cheat sheet

Week 3 “Infrastructure” kicks off tomorrow, Tuesday with a new keynote and drop of dozens of technical sessions.

Top GCP stories for this past week include :

• Safety first: Announcing 11 new G Suite security features (Google blog)
• Build a simpler, seamless workspace with the G Suite developer platform (Google blog)
• Traffic Director and gRPC — proxyless services for your service mesh (Google blog)
• Using new traffic control features in External HTTP(S) load balancer (Google blog)
• Online shopping gets more personal with Recommendations AI (Google blog)
• Giving you better cost analytics capabilities — and a simpler invoice (Google blog)

From the “G Suite meets developers” department :

• Why you should share your Apps Script projects as G Suite Add-ons (Google blog)
• 1-click sync from Google Sheets to BigQuery Tables | by Allen Day (medium.com)

From the “Data is just data without the insights” department :

• Improved customer feedback management with Google Cloud AutoMLgtech.run/6ufm6 (Google blog)
• Analyzing Coronavirus Epitopes Data with BigQuery | by Jignesh Mehta (medium.com)

From the “Cloud Native Data Processing” department :

• Migrate and modernize your on-prem data lake with managed Kafka (Google blog)
• Streaming Data Generator Dataflow Flex Template on GCP | by Prathap Reddy (medium.com)

From the “Cloud Native how-to” department :

• Deploying Service or Ingress on GKE | by Joaquín Menchaca (智裕) (medium.com)
• Knative v0.16.0 update | by Mete Atamel (medium.com)

From the “Cloud Run this week” department :

• Serving users from multiple regions with Cloud Run (ahmet.im)
• Firebase hosting and Cloud Run cache | by Neil Kolban (medium.com)
• R Functions Framework | by Grant Timmerman (medium.com)

From the “Jaana’s pieces are always a good use of time” department :

• Spanner’s SQL Story | by Jaana Dogan (medium.com)

From the “Every GCP practitioner should understand Service Accounts” department :

• Service Account credentials management: how to improve your security posture | by Julio Diez (medium.com)

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Video Podcast] How Istio Improves Reliability: Interview with Dan Ciruli, PM at Google (youtube.com)
• [Podcast] Episode 14: Digital Native Podcast — Jordan Tigani, Director of Product Mgmt for Google BigQuery (youtube.com)
• [Video] Cloud Functions vs. Cloud Run (youtube.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #113 — Instrumentation and cAdvisor, with David Ashpole (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #228 — Fastly with Tyler McMullen (gcppodcast.com)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 301.0.0
• [GA] Anthos GKE on AWS
• [GA] GKE Release Channels
• [GA] Using VPC Service Controls with AI Platform Training
• [GA] Using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) with AI Platform Training
• [GA] Cloud Storage fine-grained access control
• [GA] Traffic Director proxyless gRPC
• [GA] Export Cloud Billing data to BigQuery
• [GA] Cloud Run for Anthos Managed TLS certificates and HTTPS
• [Beta] Recommendations AI
• [Beta] Container-Optimized OS — Running instances with GPU accelerators
• [Beta] Google Cloud Functions — Python 3.8
• [Beta] Serverless VPC Access Shared VPC
• [Beta] Anthos Config Management — Hierarchy Controller overview
• [Beta] Google Cloud Armor named IP address lists
• [Beta] Pre-configured WAF rules RCE, LFI, RFI

This week’s picture is courtesy of Wietse

That is all for this week!
-Alexis