Google Cloud Platform Newsletter

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Life in the Cloud is not without problems, hopefully some of articles in today's issue can help you overcome them.

News

New Cloud Filestore service brings GCP users high-performance file storage - Cloud Filestore (currently in Beta) is managed file storage for applications that require a file system interface and a shared file system.

Announcing MongoDB Atlas free tier on GCP - MongoDB Atlas free tier allows developers a no-cost sandbox environment for MongoDB Atlas on GCP.

Bust a move with Transfer Appliance, now generally available in U.S. - The Transfer Appliance is a high-capacity server that lets you transfer large amounts of data to GCP, quickly and securely.

Kubernetes 1.11: In-Cluster Load Balancing and CoreDNS Plugin Graduate to General Availability - Newest version graduates key features in networking, opens up two major features from SIG-API Machinery and SIG-Node for beta testing, and continues to enhance storage features that have been a focal point of the past two releases.

Dataflow Stream Processing now supports Python - Release 2.5 of Apache Beam introduces beta support for streaming in Python.

New GitHub repo: Using Firebase to add cloud-based features to games built on Unity - Github repository with sample projects and scripts utilize Firebase tools and services to help you add cloud-based features to your games being built on Unity.

Lights, camera, cloud: new tools for our media and entertainment customers - Los Angeles region will launch in July.

Google Cloud for Electronic Design Automation: new partners - Google Cloud Platform showcasing a first-of-its-kind implementation of EDA in the cloud: implementation of the Synopsys VCS simulation solution for internal EDA workloads on Google Cloud as well as new partnerships.

Articles, Tutorials

Understanding error budget overspend - part one - CRE life lessons - Questions to consider to see if you need to recalibrate your error budget - when dowtime of your applications is more than your service level objectives.

Good housekeeping for error budgets - part two - CRE life lessons - Fixing the root that causes overspending error budget.

Why you should not use Google Cloud. - A bit of horror experience on Google Cloud Platform.

My tips for getting help with Google Cloud Platform - Tips and tricks about getting help on Google Cloud Cloud.

Top Reasons why Google Cloud is the best place for cloud computing newbies - Some of reasons why you should choose Google Cloud Platform if you start with cloud.

No localhost? No problem! Using Google Cloud Shell as my full time development environment. - Tips and tricks working with Google Cloud Shell for development.

6 must-see sessions on AI and machine learning at Next ‘18 - Must see 6 out of 75 sessions devoted to Machine Learning an AI on Next '18.

More GCP flowcharts for your delectation - All flowcharts related to Google Cloud Platform in one place.

Exploring gRPC on Google Cloud Platform - Introduction to gRPC with performance comparison with RESTful API and example using Cloud Endpoints and Kubernetes Engine.

Setup Bitcoin Lightning Server on Google Cloud - This guide will walk you through setting up your Bitcoin full node, Lightning network node, and a MEAN stack server to interact securely with your node.

Single Page app using GKE, App Engine, Google Cloud Endpoints and Identity Aware Proxy - This tutorial and repo contains a sample single-page application protected by Google Cloud Identy-Aware Proxy and a corresponding API service that the app accesses behind Google Cloud Endpoints.

Hello DevOps! (part 1) - Setting up web application on Kubernetes Engine with CI/CD GitLab pipeline.

Tweaking Persistent Disk Performance - Explaining different types of persistent disks.

Stackdriver custom metrics, the easy way - Implementing custom metrics on Stackdriver.

Using Google Cloud Deployment Manager shared types - One useful feature in Deployment Manager is the ability to register a third-party API and then use Deployment Manager to deploy resources using the API. This concept is called type providers and greatly expands the capability to automate aribitrary CRUD-style APIs.

BigQuery in June: a new data type, new data import formats, and finer cost controls - Monthly summary of important news: new data type, data format, enhancing DML.

The 2018 World Cup Visualized: All the Goals So Far - Visualization of goals from World Cup with BigQuery and Data Studio.

Google Search Console Data into Google BigQuery - Adapting an existing Python script to pull bulk data from Google Search Console into Google BigQuery.

Building a Personal Genome Data Warehouse with Google Cloud, 23andMe and Family Tree DNA - Using Cloud Dataprep to clenup DNA raw data and then import to BigQuery and analyzing in Cloud Datalab.

Error handling strategy for Cloud Pub/Sub and Dead letter queues - How to implement dead letter queues (queues where you send the messages that you fail to process normally) in Pub/Sub.

Emulating Google’s Cloud Pub/Sub on Apache Kafka - Hosting Pub/Sub on your own.

Running format transformations with Cloud Dataflow and Apache Beam - Code examples of conversions between tabular data file formats which can be with Apache Beam on Dataflow.

Using Apache Spark DStreams with Cloud Dataproc and Cloud Pub/Sub - This tutorial shows how to deploy an Apache Spark DStreams app on Cloud Dataproc and process messages from Cloud Pub/Sub in near real time.

Google Cloud Identity - Sign Up - Setting up Cloud Identity.

Google Cloud Identity - Sign Up, part 2 - Setting up Cloud Identity via Identity Sing Up wizard.

Google Cloud Platform Cross Org Billing - How to use same billing account across multiple organizations.

Why we believe in an open cloud - Google's view end efforts and related to open cloud.

We’re moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform - We believe Kubernetes is the future... Google invented Kubernetes, and GKE has the most robust and mature Kubernetes support.

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene suggests she's a bit envious of Microsoft's GitHub acquisition, says platform should remain independent - Few comments from Diane Greene.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #133 ML Kit with Brahim Elbouchikhi and Sachin Kotwani.

Kubernetes podcast - #9 SRE, with Tina Zhang and Fred van den Driessche.