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Firestore (new NoSQL) database is generally available, but BigTable still rocks as you can read from articles in this issue. 

News

NoSQL for the serverless age: Announcing Cloud Firestore general availability and updates - Announcement the general availability of Cloud Firestore, our serverless, NoSQL document database.

Improving the developer experience with the enhanced Apigee Developer Portal - Enhancements to the Apigee Developer Portal.

GKE usage metering: Whose line item is it anyway? - Launch of Google Kubernetes Engine usage metering in beta.

Data analytics, meet containers: Kubernetes Operator for Apache Spark now in beta - Beta launch of the Kubernetes Operator for Apache Spark , which helps you easily manage your Spark applications natively from Kubernetes.

Build a custom data viz with Data Studio community visualizations - The new Data Studio community visualizations feature, now in developer preview, allows you to design your own custom visualizations and components for Data Studio.

Speed up and organize your move to cloud with new migration waves from Velostrata - Migration waves is GCP’s real-time enterprise migration tool in latest release of Velostrata, .

Articles, Tutorials

Creating intelligent enterprise applications using GCP services on SAP Cloud Platform - Architecture and steps required to access GCP services natively on the SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry environment.

Building a serverless online game: Cloud Hero on Google Cloud Platform - Cloud Hero on Google Cloud Platform to build serverless online game.

Tune up your SLI metrics: CRE life lessons - How you can tune your existing SLIs to be a better representation of what your customers are experiencing.

Better Cost Control in Kubernetes - Optimisation of deployments, and reviewing costs to ensure that we have well optimised usage of resources in Kubernetes.

Continuous Delivery Pipelines to Google Kubernetes Engine with Gitlab - Building a continuous integration and deployment pipeline into Kubernetes running on Google Cloud platform.

Deploy a highly available shared storage service in Google Kubernetes Engine with Regional Persistent Disks and NFS - How to deploy a highly available shared storage service in Google Kubernetes Engine with Regional Persistent Disks and NFS.

Knative v0.3 Autoscaling — A Love Story - Example of how to use autoscaling with Knative

Getting Started with Red Hat Ansible for Google Cloud Platform - Explore the use of Ansible, the open source community project sponsored by Red Hat.

Cloud Bigtable brings database stability and performance to Precognitive - Moving to Cloud Bigtable improved developer experience and reduced latency for Precognitive's fraud detection software products.

Cloud Bigtable & time series data - Time series in Cloud Bigtable help us identify trends in data, letting us demonstrate concretely what happened in the past and make informed estimates of future.

Connecting to Private Cloud SQL Instances Remotely - Article explains how to connect to Cloud SQL from Kubernetes.

How to configure Micronaut to use Google Cloud MySql as datastore - How to configure your Micronaut app to use Google Cloud Sql for MySQL as a datastore.

11 Things To Understand Before Migrating Your Python 2 GAE App To Python 3 - Switching from the old GAE environment to the new one.

Code Coverage on Google Cloud Build - How to set code coverage on Google Cloud Build.

Extending Stackdriver to on-prem with the new BindPlane integration - BindPlane integration from Blue Medora lets you consolidate all your signals into Stackdriver, GCP’s monitoring tool.

Simple serverless data pipeline on Google Cloud Platform - Serverless pipeline using Cloud Scheduler, PubSub and Cloud Function to store data into BigQuery.

Cloud IoT step-by-step: Quality of life tip - The command line - Setting up Pub/Sub and IoT Core objects in GCP.

Reliable streaming pipeline development with Cloud Pub/Sub’s Replay - Cloud Pub/Sub’s new Replay feature, you can now replay old events (or messages), giving your subscribers another chance to process them.

10 tips for building long-running clusters using Cloud Dataproc - Tips and recommendations for using Cloud Dataproc in a non-ephemeral model.

DeepLearning Images Revision M19. TensorFlow 2.0 experimental. - Overview of whats coming up in TensorFlow 2.0.

AI in Depth: Cloud Dataproc meets TensorFlow on YARN: Let TonY help you train right in your cluster - How to install a Hadoop cluster for LinkedIn open-source project TonY (TensorFlow on YARN).

How we built a derivatives exchange with BigQuery ML for Google Next ‘18 - Building a derivatives exchange with BigQuery ML.

BigQuery for Data Warehouse: PART ONE - BigQuery is an enterprise data warehouse that solves this problem by enabling super-fast SQL queries using the processing power of Google’s infrastructure.

Google BigQuery’s Python SDK: Creating Tables Programmatically - Create tables in Google BigQuery, auto-generate their schemas, and retrieve said schemas.

How to get Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy up and running - Practical of example of how to use Identity Aware Proxy.

So you’re renewing your GCP Cloud solutions architect certification! - Tips on renewing your GCP Cloud solutions architect certification.

Google’s way of doing things !!! - Google’s Site Reliability Engineering book, helpful resource for Data Engineer and Cloud Architect Certification.

Mapping AWS Services to Google Cloud Platform - Cloud to cloud mapping between AWS Services to Google Cloud Platform.

Is Cloud to Cloud Migration Worth the Effort? - The benefits of Cloud to Cloud Migration.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #160 Knative with Mark Chmarny and Ville Aikas

Kubernetes Podcast - #38 Kubernetes Failure Stories, with Henning Jacobs