Google Cloud Platform Newsletter

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So many exciting news in this issue, I suggest to read them all :)

News

Committed use discounts for Google Compute Engine now generally available - Committed use discounts are ideal for predictable, steady-state use of Google Compute Engine instances. They require no upfront payments and allow you to purchase a specific number of vCPUs and a total amount of memory for up to 57% off normal prices.

Introducing faster GPUs for Google Compute Engine - New NVIDIA P100 GPUs are introduced as well as sustained discount for GPUs

GCP arrives in South America with launch of São Paulo region! - First datacenter in South America

Announcing Stackdriver Debugger for Node.js - With Stackdriver Debugger for Node JS it's possible to debug deployed Node JS code

Announcing IPv6 global load balancing GA - With this launch, your IPv6 clients can connect to an IPv6 load balancing VIP (Virtual IP)

Read between the lines with Cloud Natural Language’s new recognition features - New features: automatic content classification and analysis of sentiment of entities.

Streaming Google Analytics Data for BigQuery - Data from Google Analytics can be now streamed every 10 minutes to BigQuery

Cloudflare and Google Offer App Developers $100,000 in Cloud Platform Credits - Cloudfare offers different amounts of $$$ for startups to spent on Google Cloud Platform

Articles, Tutorials

More secure hybrid cloud deployments with Google Cloud Endpoints - How to secure APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints.

HashiCorp and Google expand collaboration, easing secret and infrastructure management - How products from HashiCorp (Cloud Infrastracture Automation) can be used on Google Cloud Platform

Global ingress in practice on Google Container Engine — Part 1: Discussion - Discussion of challenges faced when deploying Federated Kubernetes cluster.

Global ingress in practice on Google Container Engine — Part 2: Demo - Deploying real application based on previous article

Improving Rails application page load times on Google Container Engine using CloudCDN - Connecting CDN to application running on Google Container Engine

F# on Google Cloud Platform - Even F# can be deployed on Google App Engine (Flexible)

Using Deployment Manager to automate the creation of GCP’s Shared VPC - Deployment Manager use case

Scaled VM: Quick Walkthrough - 4 articles on how to set up scalable VMs

Google Natural Language vs Watson Natural Language Understanding - Comparison of new Natural Language API features with IBM Watson Natural Langage API

Twitter Analytics (Part 1) - Streaming data from Twitter into BigQuery

Getting Started Accessing the HTTP Archive with BigQuery - Starting with BigQuery by analyzing http archive (public dataset)

Visualizing your model using TensorBoard

How Machine Learning with TensorFlow Enabled Mobile Proof-Of-Purchase at Coca-Cola - How Coca Cola is using Tensorflow to read coupons from caps

Getting Started w/ PHP on GCP - How to setup PHP and use it on Google Cloud Platform

Getting Started w/ Java on GCP - How to start with Java (with example)

Competitive Sales Battlecard for Google Cloud Platform’s Retail and Commerce Solution - Key points / advantages of Google Cloud Platform

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #95 Sourcegraph with Quinn Slack. (Sourcegraph provides navigation tools for source code, and it’s powered by Go and Google Cloud Platform)

Cloud Next 17 Amsterdam - Videos from Cloud Next Amsterdam which was in June 2017

Cloud Next 17 Madrid - Videos from Cloud Next Madrid (in Spanish) from June 2017