TWiGCP — “Ruby functions, Eventarc, a year of Google Research, and free training”
Top GCP stories for this past week include :
- Ruby comes to Cloud Functions (Google blog)
- Eventarc: A unified eventing experience in Google Cloud (Google blog)
- Democratization of real-time analysis with Google Cloud (Google blog)
- Google’s approach to secure software development and supply chain risk management (Google blog)
- Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021 (ai.googleblog.com)
- Kick-off 2021 with skill badges and free training (Google blog)
From the “day 2 Ops” department :
- Using Compute Engine’s OS patch management service (Google blog)
- Lock Statistics: Diagnose performance issues in Cloud Spanner (Google blog)
- Cloud Profiler provides app performance insights, without the overhead (Google blog)
- Loading complex CSV files into BigQuery using Google Sheets (Google blog)
- Provisioning Cloud Run with Cloud NAT using Terraform | by Jeremy Tangney (medium.com)
- Save money by scheduling Cloud SQL | by guillaume blaquiere (medium.com)
- Migrating applications between Kubernetes clusters | by Luca Prete (medium.com)
From the “paving the way for hybrid AI” department :
From the “designing and configuring your Data Lake” department :
- Designing a Data Lake on GCP with Data Fusion and Composer | by Neha Joshi (medium.com)
- Framework for building a configuration driven Data Lake on GCP using Data Fusion and Composer | by Neha Joshi (medium.com)
From the “front-ending Serverless” department :
- GCP API Gateway with gRPC. Simple gRPC client/server for GCP API… | by salmaan rashid (medium.com)
- Cloud Run and Load balancing: go beyond your own project! | by guillaume blaquiere (medium.com)
From the “read this even if you’ve used the products before” department :
- Google Cloud Storage best practices: how to help ensure data privacy and security (Google blog)
- Secure access to your VMs in Google Cloud | by minherz (medium.com)
From the “leveraging Cloud Storage strong consistency” department :
- Implementing leader election on Google Cloud Storage (Google blog)
From the “Store as you go” department :
- Computing Time Series metrics at scale in Google Cloud | by David Sabater Dinter (medium.com)
- A Batch Driven CDC (Change Data Capture) Approach using Google Cloud Platform | by Carlos Augusto (medium.com)
From the “customers and partners solving real-world problems with GCP” department :
- Database migration helps Stubhub modernize with cloud (Google blog)
- A better developer experience with Cloud Operations and Wix’s Velo open web platform (Google blog)
- Choosing cloud-native Bigtable to save data warehouse costs (Google blog)
- Population health analytics with Google Cloud and OHDSI (Google blog)
- Workday uses Google Cloud AI to accelerate document processing (Google blog)
- Proving a scale-out cloud scenario for SAP financial products subledger delivers performance, scale and reliability (Google blog)
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- [Video] Running Kotlin on Google Cloud (youtube.com)
- [Video] Developing Backends with Kotlin and Spring Boot on Google Cloud (youtube.com)
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode 133 — Cilium, with Thomas Graf (kubernetespodcast.com)
From the “Preview, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 323.0.0
- [GA] Cloud Spanner lock statistics
- [GA] Cloud Spanner query statistics
- [GA] Cloud Functions support for Node 14 and Python 3.9
- [GA] Cloud Build regionalized builds
- [GA] Cloud AI PyTorch 1.6 containers
- [GA] Cloud Build user-specified service accounts
- [GA] Filestore non-RFC1918 subnet range support
- [GA] Cloud Composer Network ACL support
- [GA] Recommendations AI has migrated to the Retail API
- [GA] Cloud VPC 1500 MTU for Cloud Interconnect
- [GA] Cloud SQL support for database/memory/total_usage
- [Preview] BigQuery Console improvements
- [Preview] Cloud Function support for Ruby
- [Preview] Cloud Logging sharing queries
- [Preview] Cloud Composer CMEK support
- [Preview] Cloud Composer restart the Airflow web server
- [Preview] Managed Microsoft AD Audit Logs
- [Preview] Dataproc Service Account Based Secure Multi-tenancy
- [Preview] Cloud Shared VPC support for interfaces other than nic0
- [Preview] Traffic Director support for TCP
- [Preview] Cloud CDN using negative caching
- [Preview] Cloud DNS API for updating ResourceRecordSets
That is all for this week!
-Alexis