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C2 M2 N2 is not a new robot in Star Wars, but new machine types on Compute Engine.

News

Expanding virtual machine types to drive performance and efficiency - Google Compute Engine now offers new N2 general-purpose machine types and expanded availability of C2 compute- and M2 memory-optimized VMs

Shining a light on your costs: New billing features from Google Cloud - Cloud cost management gets easier with new billing features from Google Cloud, including improved visibility, flexibility, and data export.

Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

How To Process Time Series Data On GCP - Introducing a set of open source modules for the TICK stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor) on GCP.

How to deploy a gRPC Service on Google Kubernetes Engine (w/ TLS Encryption Support) - This tutorial will guide you through the whole process of deploying your gRPC project on Google Cloud.

Run a personal Cloud with Traefik, Let’s encrypt and Zookeeper - Kubernetes ingress with Traefik.

Setting up Cellery on GCP - A tutorial on how to set up Cellery runtime on GCP.

Scale down to zero with Cellery - Cellery is an application orchestration runtime for Kubernetes which supports organizing and managing the application deployment via code.

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

Best practices for SAP app server autoscaling on Google Cloud - Learn best practices for scaling an SAP app server on Google Cloud.

Oracle database on Google Cloud Platform -What do you need to know? - A brief overview of the state of running Oracle DB on GCP.

Google Cloud SQL for MySQL – Connection Security, High Availability and Failover - Improving security, availability and fault tolerance on Cloud SQL.

Firestorm: An ORM for Firestore - Firestorm is an Firestore ORM for TypeScript.

gRPC Authentication with Google OpenID Connect tokens - The article explains how to get ID Tokens for HTTP clients using google auth libraries and applying them to gRPC clients.

Deploy an ASP.NET Core App with EF Core and PostgreSQL to Google Cloud - Deploying an ASP.NET Core web application with EF Core and PostgreSQL to App Engine and Cloud SQL on Google Cloud Platform.

Understand requests latency with Stackdriver Trace - Learn about traces and spans and how to use them to debug bottlenecks in your app using OpenCensus and Stackdriver.

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

Tips and Tricks to Seamlessly Migrate BigQuery Dataset Across Regions - Description of cross regional BigQuery data migration.

A Journey into BigQuery Fuzzy Matching — 2 of [1, ∞) — More Soundex and Levenshtein Distance - Doing fuzzy matching in BigQuery on first and last names.

Finding top programming language with BigQuery - Analyzing Github public dataset with BigQuery's to get most popular programming languages based on number of repositories.

Don’t Double Park in Brooklyn - Analyzing New York's open data about state vehicle registration using BigQuery and Data Studio.

Building a data pipeline with Apache Beam and Elasticsearch on GCP. - Three-part series about data pipeline using Beam and ElasticSearch on GCP. This article describes installing Elastic Search on GCP.

Google Dataflow Pipeline for Incremental Data Load from Oracle DB to GCS - Using Beam and Dataflow to export data from Oracle DB.

Apache Beam + Scikit learn - Using Scikit in Beam pipeline.

Integrate Kafka with Google Cloud/Pub Sub - Exchanging messages between Kafka and Pub/Sub.

How to connect Tableau to Google Cloud Spanner - The article describes how to connect Tableau with Cloud Spanner.

Share Your Notebooks With One-Click - The article describes how to share AI Platform notebook

How to Upgrade Colab with More Compute - Learn how to use Google Cloud Platform’s Deep Learning VMs to power up your Colab environment, on this episode of AI Adventures

Custom model deployment on Google A.I. Platform Serving - End to end ML pipeline on AI Platform.

Itaú Unibanco: How we built a CI/CD Pipeline for machine learning with online training in Kubeflow - Itaú Unibanco shares how it built a digital customer service tool that uses natural language processing, built with machine learning, to understand customer questions and respond in real time.

GlideFinder: How we built a platform on Google Cloud that can monitor wildfires - Dmitry Kryuk, founder and CTO of GlideFinder, shares how they built a platform that can locate wildfires, alert subscribers, and provide analytics that can help prevent or contain wildfires in a timely manner.

Various

How to become a Cloud cost-control guru on GCP - Cloud computing costs are difficult to grasp. Most of us have just given up on trying to understand clearly where all the cost figures on…

How to pass the Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification - A guide on how to pass the Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification with a study guide included.

Basecamp’s cofounder explains why it ditched Google Cloud for Amazon this summer - Basecamp's experience with GCP.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #190 ML and AI with Sherol Chen

Kubernetes Podcast - #66 kubectl Plugins and krew, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Luk Burchard

Releases

Cloud Data Loss Prevention - Added additional infoType detector: MEDICAL_TERM.

Google Cloud Composer - New versions of Cloud Composer images: composer-1.7.3-airflow-1.9.0, composer-1.7.3-airflow-1.10.1, and composer-1.7.3-airflow-1.10.2. This release contains only internal reliability improvements.

Cloud Billing - The Billing Account Overview page in the GCP Console was redesigned to provide you with an at-a-glance summary of your charges to date, estimated end-of-month charges, and any credit balances.

Cloud Vision API - If you write your applications in Java with the Spring Framework, we now provide a guide to help you add Spring Cloud Vision API to your application.