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News

Introducing Google Cloud’s Secret Manager - Secret Manager is a new GCP product that securely and conveniently stores API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.

New GA Dataproc features extend data science and ML capabilities - Data scientists can now use features like autoscaling, notebooks, logging and monitoring, and attaching GPUs to clusters in cloud Dataproc.

Cheaper Cloud AI deployments with NVIDIA T4 GPU price cut - A significant price reduction for NVIDIA T4 GPUs makes ML inference workloads more affordable.

4 ways Anthos delivers ROI to customers, according to new Forrester Consulting Study - Anthos delivers up to 4.8X ROI, Forrester Research found.

Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

How-To: Kubernetes Cluster Network Security - A brief overview of Pod network security on Google Kubernetes Engine.

SLOs with Stackdriver Service Monitoring - Using Stackdriver monitoring API for Service Level Objectives.

Let Google do Secret Management - A brief overview of Secret Manager

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

Knative and Cloud Run, portability in action - Istio and Knative come with the promise of portability and serverless. Is it true? Let’s go to validate this on GCP and AWS.

Deploy a Serverless CI/CD Pipeline on GCP using Cloud Run, Cloud Build & Terraform - Deploying CI/CD pipeline with Terraform on Google Cloud.

GAE, XHR, CORS, and IAP - Configuring web app on App Engine to use Identity Aware Proxy for Ajax requests.

“Init” Cloud Functions - Code samples for initializing Cloud Functions with data from Secret Manager.

How To Deploy Google Cloud Functions from CircleCI - Step by step tutorial to set up Cloud Functions deployment with CircleCI.

Introducing googleCloudRunner - serverless R on Google Cloud Platform - As easy as possible R scripts in the cloud, via Cloud Run, Cloud Build and Cloud Scheduler. Continuous Development and Integration tools on Google Cloud Platform.

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

How to replay time series data from Google BigQuery to Pub/Sub - This is a tutorial article explaining how to replay time-series data from a BigQuery table into a Pub/Sub topic.

A Continent On Fire - Visualizing wildfires with BigQuery Geo Viz.

Fastai batch prediction on a BigQuery table - From this article, you will get to know how to perform a batch prediction on a BigQuery table using a fastai model.

Interactive: The top 2019 Wikipedia pages - Going deeper into Wikipedia most popular pages for 2019 with BigQuery and Data Studio.

Where inventions happen: Geo-locating global intellectual property - Getting to know where on the glob the inventions happen based on patents public data set.

Inequality: How to draw a Lorenz curve with SQL, BigQuery, and Data Studio - Analyzing the popularity of Wikipedia pages based on public data set.

TensorFlow serving warmup file - Solving a warm-up issue when deploying a model for Google Cloud Run using the TensorFlow serving container.

Various

Why we built our ML platform on AWS — and why that may have been a mistake - TLDR; Google Cloud offered more attractive offerings for Machine Learning than AWS.

Activision Blizzard And Google Enter Into Multi-Year Strategic Relationship To Power New Player Experiences - Google Cloud will serve as the preferred provider for Activision Blizzard's game hosting infrastructure.

Slides, Videos, Audio

Kubernetes Podcast - #87 Multitenancy at Cruise, with Karl Isenberg

Releases

BigQuery - BigQuery is now available in the Seoul (asia-northeast3) region. The BigQuery Storage API is now available in all BigQuery regional and multi-regional locations.

BigQuery ML - BigQuery ML is now available in the Seoul (asia-northeast3) region.

BigTable - Cloud Bigtable is now available in the asia-northeast3 (Seoul) region.

Data Catalog - IAM policies are no longer available for individual entries, but still are available for tag templates and entry groups.

Cloud Dataflow - Cloud Dataflow is now able to use workers in zones in the asia-northeast3 region (Seoul).

Dataproc - Dataproc is now available in the asia-northeast3 region (Seoul).

Cloud Filestore - Cloud Filestore is now available in the Seoul (asia-northeast-3) region.

KMS - Cloud KMS resources can now be created in the asia-northeast3 region.

Google Kubernetes Engine Rapid - 1.16.4-gke.22 is now available in the Rapid release channel.

Google Kubernetes Engine Regular - 1.14.8-gke.33 is now available in the Regular release channel.

Google Kubernetes Engine Stable - v1.13.11-gke.23 is the default for new Stable channel clusters.

Cloud Memorystore - Added new Cloud Memorystore for Redis region: Seoul (asia-northeast3).

AI Platform - Creating an AI Platform Prediction custom prediction routine that uses runtime version 1.15 and Python 3.7 might fail due to a problem with a dependency. AI Explanations no longer supports AI Platform Prediction runtime version 1.13.

Recommender - Recommender API is now generally available.

Cloud Run - You can now allocate 2 vCPUs to for Cloud Run (fully managed) services.

Cloud Spanner - Cloud Spanner regional instances can now be created in Seoul (asia-northeast3).

Cloud SQL Postgres - Support for asia-northeast3 region (Seoul).

Cloud SQL Server - Support for asia-northeast3 region (Seoul).

Cloud Storage - Seoul region (asia-northeast3) launched.

Virtual Private Cloud - For auto mode VPC networks, added a new subnet 10.178.0.0/20 for the Seoul asia-northeast3 region.

Cloud VPN - Cloud VPN is now available in region asia-northeast3 (Seoul).