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New release of Tensorflow, Istio, and brand new hub devoted to CI/CD.

News

TensorFlow 2.0 and Cloud AI make it easy to train, deploy, and maintain scalable machine learning models - Recent developments around TensorFlow: version 2.0 in alpha, new features, courses etc.

Announcing Istio 1.1 - New release of Istio with improved performance and scalability.

CI/CD on Google Cloud - CI/CD developer hub, a collection of resources for Google Cloud.

Introducing a new Coursera course on Site Reliability Engineering - The new course, Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability, distills years of collective Google SRE experience with designing and managing complex systems that meet their reliability targets.

Plug-in for VMware vRealize Automation - Plug-in for VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) is now generally available, providing an additional way for VMware customers to manage and consume Google Cloud resources.

NVIDIA’s RAPIDS joins our set of Deep Learning VM images for faster data science - RAPIDS, NVIDIA’s open source and Python-based GPU-accelerated data processing and machine learning libraries are available on Deep Learning VM images

Articles, Tutorials

It's raining APIs: How AccuWeather shares data with developers using Apigee - Weather data provider AccuWeather uses Google Cloud’s Apigee to manage their APIs and offer them to developers and other users.

Kubernetes-based Microservice Observability with Istio Service Mesh: Part 2 - Exploring the set of observability tools that are part of the latest version of Istio Service Mesh.

Managing Kubernetes RBAC Groups - RBACSync is an open source tool which synchronizes RoleBindings and ClusterRoleBindings, used in Kubernetes RBAC.

Creating Your Kubernetes Cluster in Google Cloud Platform Using Service Account - The article explains how to create a Kubernetes cluster with the service account and what role it should have.

Network IP Ranges of a Private Kubernetes Cluster in Google Cloud Platform - Handling private IP addresses in Kubernetes cluster on GCP.

Creating Instances with Multiple Network Interfaces and IP route issue on Google Cloud Platform - The article goes through the process of setting up a second network interface for Compute Engine VM.

NodeJS Continuous Deployment in Google Cloud with Kubernetes & Container Builder - Setting continuous deployment for Kubernetes Engine.

Google Cloud PowerShell - Tip how to set up and use PowerShell in Cloud Shell.

Time reduction battle while migrating databases from hosted PostgreSQL to Google Cloud SQL - Problems encountered when migrating to PostgreSQL Cloud SQL.

Building Scalable Applications with Google Services Part 1: Cloud Functions and Firestore - The article describes how to start with Firebase.

Firebase: Introducing the Cloud Messaging batch APIs in the Admin SDK - Using Firebase Admin SDK to send messages to devices.

Creating a Chat Using Pub/Sub - Using Pub/Sub in multiplayer games.

Analyzing 3024 rice genomes characterized by DeepVariant - Exploring Rice genome dataset using BigQuery.

Setting Budget and Alerts for your Google Cloud project - The article explains budget alerts and how to set them.

Five habits of highly effective capital markets firms who run in the cloud - Results of the survey from 19 capital market firms regarding their respective public cloud adoption journeys.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #167 World Pi Day with Emma Haruka Iwao

Your Superpower User Manual • Marc Cohen - Combining Google Cloud services (like Dataflow, BigQuery, and AutoML), along with modern Python tools to analyze and visualize some interesting and practical questions.

Kubernetes Podcast - #45 SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone), with Andrew Jessup