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News

Toward better phone call and video transcription with new Cloud Speech-to-Text - Cloud Speech-to-Text (formerly known as Cloud Speech API) introduces new features like new models for video and phone call transcription, automatic punctuation.

Announcing version history support for Cloud Firestore Security Rules - Announcing version history support for Cloud Firestore Security Rules.

Time to Upgrade from GCM to FCM - Since GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) will be deprecated in April 2019, it's time to move to FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging).

How to dynamically generate GCP IAM credentials with a new HashiCorp Vault secrets engine - Dynamically generate GCP IAM credentials with a new HashiCorp Vault secrets engine.

Cloud Endpoints: Introducing a new way to manage API configuration rollout - A new way to manage API configuration rollout with Cloud Endpoints.

Introducing Kayenta: An open automated canary analysis tool from Google and Netflix - Kayenta, an open-source automated canary analysis service that allows teams to reduce risk associated with rolling out deployments to production at high velocity.

Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes Goes Beta - The Kubernetes implementation of the Container Storage Interface (CSI) is now beta in Kubernetes v1.10.

Google named a Leader in the Forrester Public Cloud Development Platform Wave, Q2 2018 - Google named a Leader in the Forrester Public Cloud Development Platform Wave, Q2 2018.

Articles, Tutorials

Best practices for securing your Google Cloud databases - Best practices to help protect and defend the databases you host on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

How to automatically scan Cloud Storage buckets for sensitive data: Taking charge of your security - Automate data classification using the DLP API and Cloud Functions.

Exploring container security: Digging into Grafeas container image metadata - Grafeas, an open-source project that provides a structured metadata API for container images.

Whitepaper: Running your modern .NET Application on Kubernetes - Containerizing, orchestration, autoscaling modern .NET Application on Kubernetes.

Reflecting on our ten year App Engine journey - Oldest product on Google Cloud Platform celebrates 10th anniversary.

BigQuery lazy data loading: SQL data languages (DDL and DML), partitions, and half a trillion Wikipedia pageviews - Analyze a 4 terabyte dataset of Wikipedia pageviews with BigQuery.

Introducing column based partitioning in BigQuery - Explanation of column date partitioning in BigQuery.

BigQuery beyond SQL and JS: Running C and Rust code at scale - BigQuery running arbitrary C and Rust code.

BigQuery and Data Studio cost optimization - Cost optimization using Data Studio on BigQuery.

Bootstrapping GCP with Knife - Process to bootstrap systems with knife through a SSH deploy key installed into your Google Project.

Getting Started With Kubernetes : Part 1 : Setting Up Master — Node Architecture With Ubuntu 16.04 - Step by step tutorial to set up Master — Node Architecture on Ubuntu With Kubernetes.

Container-Optimized OS - Using Container-Optimized OS (COS) which is based on Chromium OS.

Setting up a game server using Nakama on Google Compute Engine, part 3 - Setting up a game server using Nakama on Google Compute Engine.

Setup CI/CD Pipeline for your Flutter App using CircleCI - Using CircleCI to setup our build pipeline that does linting, runs tests and uploads generated build apk to Google Cloud Storage.

How do I create an OpenEBS storage pool on Google Persistent Disk - Creating an OpenEBS storage pool on Google Persistent Disk.

Building a CRUD Ionic application with Firestore - Using Ionic framework and Firestore to create CRUD workflow.

Introduction to Stackdriver Distributed Tracing (Part 1) - Basics of Stackdriver Distributed Tracing.

Exposing ASP.NET Core Web API on Google Cloud with Cloud Endpoints - Using Cloud Endpoints expose ASP.NET Core Web API.

Predicting San Francisco Bikeshare availability with TensorFlow and LSTMs - Using Google Datalab, BigQuery, and TensorFlow to perform machine learning.

It’s Show Time: AWS Polly Vs Google Cloud Text-To-Speech - Google Cloud Text-to-Speech compared with AWS Polly and basic implementation in PHP.

Cloud-native architecture with serverless microservices — the Smart Parking story - Overview on event-driven architecture using serverless microservices on GCP.

Implementing an event-driven architecture on serverless — the Smart Parking story - Explore how to build an event-driven architecture on serverless services to solve a complex, real-world problem.

What we learned doing serverless — the Smart Parking story - Understanding the intent and design of the serverless services to greatly improve the quality of code.

Slides, Videos, Audio

#122 Project Jupyter with Jessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris Holdgraf - Discussion on Project Jupyter, and JupyterHub using Kubernetes to enable a multi-user server.

Cloud Storage & Large File Read Performance

Campus Experts Summit: How Google Cloud Platform Can Support Your Business