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After NodeJS and Python, Go is officially third language supported on Cloud Functions.

News

Get Go-ing with Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language - Announcement about support for Go on Cloud Functions.

Connecting BigQuery and Google Sheets to help with hefty data analysis - The Sheets data connector for BigQuery will be generally available to G Suite Business, Enterprise and Education customers in the coming weeks.

Check up on your remote fleet: Cloud IoT now makes Device Activity Logging generally available - Cloud IoT now makes Device Activity Logging generally available.

NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs now available in beta - T4 GPU instances are now available publicly in beta in Brazil, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Tokyo, and the United States.

Introducing Feast: an open source feature store for machine learning - Announcement of the release of Feast, an open source feature store that allows teams to manage, store, and discover features for use in machine learning projects.

Articles, Tutorials

Canary analysis: Lessons learned and best practices from Google and Waze - How Waze is using Spinnaker (continuous delivery system) to do canary deployments.

Automating Multi-Environment Kubernetes Virtual Clusters with Google Cloud DNS, Auth0, and Istio 1.0 - Using Google Cloud DNS, Auth0, and Istio 1.0 in with different clusters via Kubernetes Namespaces.

Deploy Microsoft SQL Server on Google Kubernetes Engine - Deploying Microsoft SQL Server on Google Kubernetes Engine.

Building your very own Service Mesh - How to build your very own Service Mesh.

Exploring Upgrade Strategies for Stateful Sets in Kubernetes - Differences between blue-green deployment and rolling update strategies.

Overview of Elastigroup for Google Cloud - How Elastigroup works with Google Cloud.

Guide: Creating custom base images for GCP with Jenkins and Packer - How to set up the Jenkins job and Packer script to create custom base images that you can use in GCP.

CI/CD: Google Cloud Build — Regex Build Triggers - Creating build triggers using regex on Google Cloud Build.

The right Cloud Bigtable index makes all the difference. - Design Cloud Bigtable index for better performance.

Building Google's Game of the Year with Cloud Text-to-Speech and App Engine - Google's Game of the Year with Cloud Text-to-Speech, WaveNet and SSML.

A simple blueprint for building AI-powered customer service on GCP - an overview of a simple solution blueprint that may inspire you to meet these objectives using GCP.

Simple, Extensible, Performant, Low Cost Web Serving using Firebase Hosting - Low Cost Web Serving using Firebase Hosting.

Image Resizing with Go and Cloud Functions - Build a basic Image Resizer in pure Go and and Cloud Functions.

How I ended up with a more controlled solution by eliminating Google Cloud Functions & using an extra layer of messaging queue for Video Analytics - Insight into project kind of Video Library where admins should be able to upload videos and the end users should be able to search inside the transcriptions of the videos.

Cloud IoT step-by-step: Cloud to device communication - Using Cloud IOT to send messages down to your device.

Creating Google Cloud Pub/Sub publishers and subscribers with Spring Cloud GCP — Part 1: Setup - How to use Spring Cloud GCP to develop fast and simple Cloud Pub/Sub publishers and subscribers using Spring Cloud GCP.

Creating Google Cloud Pub/Sub publishers and subscribers with Spring Cloud GCP — Part 2: Implementation - How to use Spring Cloud GCP to implement Pub/Sub publishers and subscribers that help us develop cool message-driven micro-services.

Towards a Multi-Cloud Serverless Data Warehouse - Using GCP’s Cloud Dataflow and BigQuery services.

Managing BigQuery field descriptions — bq-utils 0.1.0 - A small Python library that helps you with copying and uploading your BigQuery field descriptions.

Building Token Recommender in Google Cloud Platform - ERC20 token recommendation system based on collaborative filtering and data from public Ethereum dataset in BigQuery using products on GCP.

Image Sentiment & Label Analysis using Google Vision API - Using Google Vision API to do Image Sentiment & Label Analysis.

Google Cloud Functions Now Runs Go — What About TensorFlow? - Explore ways to run TensorFlow via cloud functions using Go runtime.

Getting started with Cloud TPUs: An overview of online resources - An overview of online resources about TPUs.

Running TensorFlow inference workloads at scale with TensorRT 5 and NVIDIA T4 GPUs - How to run deep learning inference on large-scale workloads with NVIDIA TensorRT 5 running on Compute Engine VMs configured with our Cloud Deep Learning VM image and NVIDIA T4 GPUs.

What is BeyondCorp? What is Identity-Aware Proxy? - Overview of how Google is providing access to it's employees and how it can be used on GCP.

Google Cloud — Data Engineer Exam Study Guide - Personal notes about GCP products used for study for Google Cloud Data engineer exam.

How retailers like Ulta and DSW are improving customer experiences using Google Cloud - Three major ways retailers take advantage of the cloud.

Slides, Videos, Audio

Kubernetes Podcast - #036 Rook, with Jared Watts

Introducing GCP Essentials, a new video series - New video series on YouTube — GCP Essentials.