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Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

Securing Applications in GCP with Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall - Integrating Palo Alto Network with Google Cloud Network Connectivity Center.

Master GCP Networking and VPC: The Ultimate Guide for Cloud Engineers - Basic overview of Setting Virtual Private cloud on Google Cloud.

Optimizing Firewall rules with Firewall Insights - This article explains how to set and use Firewall insights.

Create and serve HLS video content to your app with Google Cloud CDN - This tutorial explains how to create HLS video streams from raw media files and stream them to a Flutter mobile application.

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

Configuring mTLS for Apigee X Southbound Traffic Flow - This blog post will discuss how to configure mTLS for southbound requests in Apigee X.

Part 1: 10 tips for optimizing your Firestore database - A well-designed data structure can improve performance, reduce the amount of data you need to store and retrieve.

Part 2: 10 tips for optimizing your Firestore database - Several tips for optimizing your Firestore database and improving the performance of your application.

Firestore query limitations and how to work around them - In this blog post, you will have an overview of Firestore query capabilities and the importance of understanding query limitations.

React Components to PDF API with Cloud Run and Terraform - Implementing React component that uploads file to Cloud Storage via Cloud Run.

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

Simple CI/CD pipeline for running dbt on Google Cloud Platform - Step by step tutorial to set CI/CD pipeline for dbt on Google Cloud.

Data Governance with Dataplex — A sneak peak into the latest launches - Recent Dataplex improvements with examples.

Google Cloud Data Fusion — Enterprise Configuration Part 1 - An overview of creating and setting Data Fusion instance.

Google Cloud Data Fusion — Enterprise Configuration Part 2 - Improving security for Data Fusion instance.

FHIR Data Ingestion using GCP’s Cloud Healthcare API(Part -1) - Exploring how FHIR data ingestion and analytics can be performed on GCP using Healthcare API and BigQuery.

Data Lineage in BigQuery - BigQuery now introduces a Lineage tab in the console (as a preview feature) which lets you how your data moves and transforms through BigQuery.

Data pipelines with BigQuery routines - How using routines and procedural language to build data pipelines in BigQuery.

How to do RFM Segmentation With SQL and Google BigQuery - An introduction to the Basics of Customer Segmentation Analysis.

Random Sampling Tips for Google BigQuery - Examples of how to get data samples in BigQuery.

Auto-Generate BigQuery Schema from a Pandas DataFrame - Save yourself time and headaches creating BigQuery schemas from your DataFrame with this one simple function.

Targeting High Value Customers with BQML and Functions in 20 Minutes - Analyzing e-commerce data from Google Merchandise Stores' Analytics property.

Various

Passing and Failing Google Cloud Certification Exams - Sharing experience of taking 18 Google Cloud certification exams.

Google Cloud Professional Database Engineer prep sheet - Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer prep sheet.

Best of 2022! - Top Qwiklabs in 2022.

Releases

Google Cloud Armor - The rule signature 942550-sqli, which covers the vulnerability in which malicious attackers can bypass WAF by appending JSON syntax to SQL injection payloads, is now available.

Cloud Build - Users can now customize email, BigQuery, and webhook-based notifications using notifier templates.

Dataflow - Starting with Beam SDK version 2.44.0, Dataflow will not support running Dataflow jobs with workers in a region that is different from the Dataflow regional endpoint.

Dialogflow - Dialogflow CX now supports the MATCH system function.

Cloud Data Loss Prevention - The current default PERSON_NAME infoType detection model, which is accessible when InfoType.version is set to latest or stable, is now also used when InfoType.version is set to legacy.

Cloud SQL MySQL - The changes listed in the December 20 release notes entry for the lower_case_table_names flag for MySQL 8.0 have been postponed.