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Introducing Cloud Armor WAF enhancements to help protect your web application and API service - We’re introducing new features in Cloud Armor: granular rate limiting and flexible options to configure custom rules, and custom IP headers to further enhance protections against DDoS and other attacks.

Cloud Deploy gets deploy parameters, new console creation flows, and reduced pricing - Cloud Deploy gets deploy parameters, new console creation flows, and reduced pricing.

Announcing Tecton on Google Cloud: Accelerate the development of ML-powered applications - Tecton on Google Cloud provides an easy and fast way to build, process, manage, and share ML features to power your ML applications.

More Control Loading the Maps JavaScript API - Today we're sharing three big improvements to how the Maps JavaScript API is loaded: an API for flexible library loading, the new inline bootstrap loader, and a set of performance improvements.

Introducing Google Cloud Support on mobile: Manage support cases on-the-go - Your Google Cloud Support cases are now available for you to manage from the Google Cloud mobile app.

Introducing time-bound key authentication for service accounts - Google Cloud customers can now secure their service account keys with customizable options to enforce expiration dates.

Introducing SAP Cost Estimator: Price out your SAP landscape on Google Cloud - The new SAP Cost Estimator helps you understand whether Google Cloud is a cost effective cloud for your SAP applications.

Calling all SAP developers: Announcing the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud - ABAP SDK for Google Cloud is now available for customers and partners to build innovative extensions to SAP using Google Cloud services.

A new accelerator for AI-first startups in Europe and Israel - AI-first startups in Europe and Israel should apply before July 30 for the new Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First program to receive mentorship and credits.

Announcing Google Cloud AI and Research Days to help accelerate scientific discovery - The next Google Cloud AI & Research Day is in San Francisco on August 31st.

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Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

How to better manage customer identities to support an engaging ecommerce user experience - Google Cloud Identity Platform can enable retailers to add identity and access management capabilities to their customer facing applications including ecommerce platforms.

Comparing GKE Autopilot cost efficiency to traditional managed Kubernetes - Learn about how GKE Autopilot pricing works, and the considerations you should be making to optimize your Kubernetes costs.

Best Kept Security Secrets: Keeping secrets, the Secret Manager way - Google Cloud offers an important tool so our customers can better manage their secrets. Meet the Google Cloud Secret Manager.

5 Key Ingredients for a Successful Cloud Journey - Insights and Best Practices from the Trenches.

Domain authorization: The faster way to provision managed certificates in GCP - This article will show you how to set up domain authorization and create new certificates in the certificate manager using domain authorization.

TensorFlow on GKE Autopilot with GPU acceleration - Provision GPUs and execute AI workloads using GKE with automated creation and teardown.

Private Node Pools in Standard Public GKE clusters - This blog post explains how you can set up private node pools in your standard public GKE cluster.

Ultimate Guide to User Authorization with Identity Platform - An end to end guide to implement user authorization with Cloud Identity.

Internet Access for Private/Sensitive Workloads with Squid Proxy and Private Service Connect on GCP - Handling private workloads within the hub-spoke network topology.

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

How ETH Library uses Apigee to make its open data holdings available to the public

DevOps Award winner METRO.digital on being a “DevOps Dreamer” - METRO.digital won a DevOps Award for implementing a generative DevOps culture, using a loosely coupled architecture, and setting up a data lake.

DevOps Awards winner Priceline on leveraging a loosely coupled architecture - Priceline used DevOps principles to ensure there’s always enough capacity when shifting platform traffic from region to region.

DevOps Awards winner Vodafone on “unlocking the secrets of DevOps” - To drive AI in its solutions, Vodafone needed standardization, flexibility, and high levels of automation – earning it a 2022 DevOps Award.

PaLM API Firebase Extensions Tutorial - This tutorial walks you through setting Firebase Extension to use PaLM API.

How to set up a dead-letter for an Eventarc trigger using gcloud CLI and track your serverles exceptions - Series on how you can set up dead-letter policies for Eventarc triggers on serverless applications.

Creating a developer portal for Cloud Run with sidecar containers and Apigee - How to use an Envoy sidecar within a Cloud Run service to add API management capabilities and self-service developer onboarding.

Unexpected Google Maps API charges - How it happened, how to solve it, lessons learned.

Accelerate Your Builds: Caching Node Dependencies and npm ci in Google Cloud Build

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

Built with BigQuery: How Ternary turns customers’ cloud-spending pain into gain - Ternary consolidates billing data from customers’ cloud service providers, ISVs, and other data sources using BigQuery and other Google Cloud services.

Navigating Google Cloud: a decision tree for data & analytics workloads - Introducing a decision tree for data analytics that helps you select the best services in Google Cloud to match your unique workload needs.

Unlock insights faster from your MySQL data in BigQuery - Unlock insights faster from your MySQL data in BigQuery through Dataflow JDBC Templates.

Learn how to run Serverless Spark workloads without provisioning and managing clusters - A new interactive tutorial in the Google Cloud console walks you how to start processing your data with Serverless Spark on Google Cloud.

Why you should use a monorepo to structure your dataflow pipelines - This article explores reasons to use monorepo structure for Dataflow pipelines.

Faster retailer success with Google Cloud Shelf Checking AI and Cortex Framework with SAP - Integration between Google Cloud’s Shelf Checking API and SAP ERP systems gives retailers new tools to reduce shelf-outs and stock-outs.

Build intelligent applications with Neo4j Knowledge Graphs and Google Cloud generative AI - Augment generative AI with Knowledge Graphs for more precise generation of content and recommendations.

A Comprehensive Guide about Google Cloud Generative AI Studio - A comprehensive walkthrough in Google Cloud Generative AI Studio with Python code samples.

A Custom AMA App Using VertexAI - In this blog, we’ll walk through the process of creating a custom search engine using VertexAI, Streamlit and Langchain.

Streamlining ML development with Feast - Feast, which is integrated with Bigtable, ensures that ML models remain portable throughout the model development and deployment process.

MLOps With Kubeflow Pipelines (Part 2) - Accelerating Machine Learning Operations with Kubeflow Pipelines.

Various

The Google Cloud Ready - Sustainability Program: One year in - Google Cloud Ready - Sustainability is one year old. Explore how this growing list of partners is accelerating sustainability use cases for customers.

Measuring your sustainability initiative for success - ESG regulation continues to pressure organizations to provide verifiable results to stakeholders. The Google Cloud Ready - Sustainability program helps meet this challenge.

How to grow your multicloud resume as a cloud architect - A new #GCPSketchnote provides an overview of the technologies you should learn to become a multicloud architect.

Slides, Videos, Audio

Kubernetes Podcast - #205 The State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization, with Fernando Rubbo and Kent Hua.

Security Podcast - #131 A Deep Dive into Google's Assured OSS: How Google Secures the Software You Use.