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Big improvement for our newsletter :) We are introducing tags for articles which should help you to have better overview in newsletter's content. Beside that there are few interviews from GCP guys in today's issue.

News

Compute Engine machine types with up to 64 vCPUs now ready for your production workloads - Biggest VM with 64 virtual CPUs and 416 GB RAM is generally available

Use Google Cloud Client Libraries to store files, save entities, and log data - Client libraries for C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby to access Google Cloud Platform products are generally available

Announcing general availability of GPUs for Cloud Machine Learning Engine - For just 3 months GPUs are going from Beta to Generally Available

Google Cloud Platform launches Northern Virginia region

Windows on the rise at GCP - Support for Windows ecosystem if paying out for Google Cloud Platform

Articles, Tutorials

Mapping your organization with the Google Cloud Platform resource hierarchy - Article explains possibilities of how to organize Google Cloud Platform projects through out company, departments etc

GAE Startup time and the dependency problem - Read how dependency libraries in Google App Engine affects startup instance time

Designing ETL architecture for a cloud-native data warehouse on Google Cloud Platform - Example of ETL process on Google Cloud Platform utilizing Dataflow, BigQuery, App Engine

Interpreting 23andme Raw Genome Data with Google Genomics and BigQuery

After Lambda: Exactly-once processing in Google Cloud Dataflow - Learn the meaning of “exactly once” processing in Cloud Dataflow, its importance for stream processing overall, and its implementation in the streaming shuffle phase.

A Node.JS Websocket Server on Google App Engine - Simple example of how to configure and deploy Node.js application on Google App Engine with Websockets support

Stackdriver Monitoring And Ruby - Tutorial about how to start using Ruby's client library for Stackdriver

Running Chaos Monkey on Spinnaker / Google Compute Engine - Chaos Monkey is a service that randomly terminates VM instances and containers–these frequent failures promote the creation of resilient services.

Putting gRPC multi-language support to the test - with gRPC multi language support it's possible to implement services in most popular languages, in this article concretely Java and C#

An in-depth look at Google’s first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) - In depth overview of Tensor Processing Unit

The cloud is on, the meter’s running. - Sobering look at expenses in the cloud

Google VP Eric Brewer on open source, innovation and the economics of cloud - Podcast and highlights from podcast with Eric Brewer

The Google Cloud Platform won’t box you in - Openness is a core differentiator, says Sam Ramji in interview

Google Cloud Next London 2017 - Brief overview of Google Cloud Next event in London in May 2017

1st impression on Google Cloud Platform - Brief overview of first impression of Google Cloud Platform

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #76 Kubernetes 1.6 with Daniel Smith

Brian Stevens, Google Cloud - OpenStack Summit 2017 - Brian Stevens, CTO of Google Cloud, sits down with Stu Miniman & John Troyer at OpenStack Summit 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Fireside Chat with Brian Stevens, CTO Cloud Platforms, Google

App Engine and the Dependency Problem