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Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, including Google's datacenters... to suggest more secure and cost-effective usage. And AutoML gets various updates. Enjoy the rest of the articles.

News

Announcing updates to AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and Video Intelligence API - Enhancements to AI vision and video intelligence portfolio to help even more customers take advantage of machine learning.

Optimize your Google Cloud environment with new AI-based recommenders - Google Cloud offers several recommends to help you optimize your environment for cost, security and performance.

Extending Stackdriver Logging across clouds and providers with new BindPlane integration - Stackdriver Logging, with BlueMedora’s BindPlane, can now pull in lots of new log sources, including generic logs, so you can gather metrics across clouds and sources.

Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

Transitioning a typical engineering ops team into an SRE powerhouse - Moving a network operations team to an SRE-driven model took some time, but was well worth the effort, as teams can focus on reliability rather than hardware.

Take time for discovery and assessment—and consider a partner—for a successful cloud migration - Cloud migration partners can help smooth the discovery and assessment path to set you up for successful cloud migration.

4 steps to stop data exfiltration with Google Cloud - How to enable and use Cloud DLP to stop data exfiltration.

Don't get pwned: practicing the principle of least privilege - 5 tips for minimizing the surface area of exposed resources on GCP, using the principle of least privilege and other techniques, and defending against attacks.

Detect and respond to high-risk threats in your logs with Google Cloud - Event Threat Detection—a feature in Cloud Security Command Center—lets you detect and respond to high-risk and costly threats in your logs.

What is Google Cloud Anthos’ promise for hybrid & multi-cloud environments? - Overview of Anthos.

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

Archive media for the long term with preservation masters - Find best practices here for creating media preservation masters using Google Cloud Storage to store media for the long term, even if formats become obsolete.

Demo of Application Routing of Knative Serving - This article describes a sample application and how to visually demonstrate the Knative serving routing features with it.

Moving to Google Cloud SQL the right way - Overview of things to consider before migrating database to Cloud SQL.

Hacking Google Cloud Run - Using Cloud Run to run long background tasks.

Share and Secure your Cloud Services: An Introduction to Cloud Endpoints - The article goes through step by step process of exposing APIs through Cloud Endpoints.

Using the gsutil command - The article goes through performing basic tasks in Cloud Storage using the gsutil command-line tool.

GCP Goodies Part 6— Stackdriver Tracing - Using Stackdriver Tracing for microservice-based architecture.

GCP Goodies Part 7— Stackdriver Profiler - How to install an agent and start up a profiler on any JVM based application running in Kubernetes. Profiling can help you discover new information about your applications.

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

How to manage BigQuery flat-rate slots within a project - Learn how to manage slots when using BigQuery’s flat-rate pricing, so you can run queries specific to applications within the same project.

Data Warehouse storage or a data lake? Why not both? - Is BigQuery more data lake or data warehouse? This article explains concepts and properties.

BigQuery Table Comparison - Examples of queries to compare 2 tables in BigQuery.

Type safe BigQuery in Apache Beam with Spotify’s Scio - Using Scala's Beam library for type-safe queries in BigQuery.

Multi-Session & Multi-Channel Funnel Reporting in Google Analytics BigQuery - Using data from Google Analytics API in BigQuery.

Implementing DataStudio Dashboards with Goal Markers - Visualizing data from BigQuery views in Data Studio.

How to run serverless batch jobs on Google Cloud - Use AI Platform for functions that take longer than a couple of minutes.

Realtime data processing with Apache Beam and Google Dataflow at Dailymotion - How Dailymotion (video platform) is collecting, processing and redistributing billions of events across systems in realtime using Apache Beam framework and Google Cloud Dataflow.

Running Spark on Dataproc and loading to BigQuery using Apache Airflow - Example of Airflow data pipeline setup for Dataproc and BigQuery.

What’s the weather like? Using Colab to get more out of BigQuery - Use BigQuery and Colab, plus Python, to explore weather datasets to make data science predictions.

Creating an Elasticsearch to BigQuery Data Pipeline - Connecting data resources through a pipeline across AWS and GCP.

Various

Accelerating industry transformation with the power of AI - How enterprises across every industry are using the cloud to build highly customized solutions and apply AI to accelerate business transformation.

Google Cloud Worth $225 Billion, Deutsche Bank Says

How to Become a Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer in 4 Simple Steps - Tips for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #197 Qubit with Matthew Tamsett and Ravi Upreti

Kubernetes Podcast - #73 CRDs, Extensibility and API Machinery, with Daniel Smith

Scaling Multiplayer Game Servers with Kubernetes - Mark Mandel, Google Cloud Platform

Releases

Interconnect - 100G ports for Dedicated Interconnect is Generally Available. 20G and 50G interconnect attachments for Dedicated Interconnect or Partner Interconnect are Generally Available.

Dialogflow - You can now create session entities with fulfillment. You can now disable automatic agent training.

Cloud Deployment Manager - You can now use the gcp-types/compute-v1:externalVpnGateways type to create Compute Engine v1 ExternalVpnGateway resources. You can now use the gcp-types/compute-v1:vpnGateways type to create Compute Engine v1 VpnGateway resources. The walkthrough of Deployment Manager's best practices has been updated, with an optional interactive version that runs in Cloud Shell.

Cloud Dataproc - Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of Cloud Dataproc Autoscaling.

Cloud NAT - The ability to Drain NAT IP addresses is available in General Availability.

BigQuery - The ability to use scripting, stored procedures, and temporary tables is now in Beta. Updated versions of Magnitude Simba JDBC and ODBC drivers have been released.