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News

Introducing ultramem Google Compute Engine machine types - Beta availability of a new family of Google Compute Engine machine types called n1-ultramem which allows you to provision VMs with up to 160 vCPUs and nearly 4TB of RAM.

Increase performance while reducing costs with the new App Engine scheduler - Next generation scheduler for App Engine Standard which increase performance while reducing costs.

Getting more value from your Stackdriver logs with structured data - Google Stackdriver Logging just made it easier than ever to send and analyze structured log data.

Google Maps Platform now integrated with the GCP Console - Google Maps Platform includes simplified products, tighter integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and tools.

Improving application availability with Alias IPs, now with hot standby - Alias IPs allow you to configure secondary IPs or IP ranges on your virtual machine (VM) instances, for a secure and highly scalable way to deliver traffic to your applications.

Opening a third zone in Singapore - Google opens a third zone in the Singapore region.

Cask is joining Google Cloud - Cask is behind CDAP - open source big data integration platform.

Google Cloud for Life Sciences: new products and new partners - New products and new partners for Google Cloud for Life Sciences.

Articles, Tutorials

Three steps to prepare your users for cloud data migration - Essential steps you can take to successfully move your enterprise users to cloud.

Kubernetes best practices: terminating with grace - How to help Kubernetes do its job more efficiently and reduce the downtime your applications experience.

Kubernetes: Day One - Getting started on Kubernetes using GKE

Google Cloud and Kubernetes Oddities - Description of experience / complex behaviour of Kubernetes on Google Cloud.

Tutorial: Running Infinispan Cluster in Kubernetes - Running Infinispan Cluster in Kubernetes. Infinispan is a distributed in-memory key/value data store.

Kubernetes w/ Let’s Encrypt & Cloud DNS - How to use Jetstack’s cert-manager to generate certs using Let’s Encrypt, using Cloud DNS and Kubernetes Engine.

Using Images from a Private Registry on GKE - How to pull images from a private registry on GKE.

Sharding of timestamp-ordered data in Cloud Spanner - How to efficiently insert and retrieve records in Cloud Spanner with timestamp ordering.

Data Science for Startups: Data Pipelines - Example of creating data pipeline on Google Cloud Platform.

Google Wavenet vs Amazon Polly - Migrating from AWS Polly to Google Wavenet.

Tutorial: Using Google Cloud SQL Proxy with Wildfly in Kubernetes - Introduction to understand how to use Google Cloud SQL Proxy in Wildlfy and create a datasource to use in J2EE application.

Build a Serverless Online Quiz with Google Cloud Functions and Cloud Firestore - How to build a Serverless online quiz on the Google Cloud Platform using Cloud Functions and Cloud Firestore.

Running Google Cloud Endpoint Tests Locally - How to setup Clound Endpoint/gRPC to work locally and run tests.

Migrating to the Dialogflow API v2 - Migration from an existing Dialogflow project that uses v1 of the API to the new API v2.

Scraping files & images using scrapy, scrapinghub and Google Cloud Storage - Solution for processing files and images captured during our web scrapes - primarily PDFs and product image files.

How Netlify migrated to a fully multi-cloud infrastructure - How Netlify planed, tested, and executed their first multi-cloud migration (including Google Cloud Platform).

This $4 billion company is betting big on Google Cloud as it makes its algorithms smarter and its employees more productive

Google Cloud acquires Cask to help simplify application enablement - Thoughts about Google Cloud acquiring Cask.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #127 SRE vs Devops with Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo

Kubernetes Podcast - gVisor with Nicolas Lacasse and Yoshi Tamura

Machine Learning on Kubernetes with Kubeflow - Take5 - Benefits of running your TensorFlow models in Kubernetes using Kubeflow.

Using Apache Airflow to Create Data Workflows on Google Cloud.

Installing GitLab on Google Container Engine