Google Cloud Platform Newsletter

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News

Cloud Functions serverless platform is generally available - After 1.5 year since introduction, Cloud Functions is now generally available and ready for production use.

Introducing headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine - The new Node.js runtime for App Engine allows to run headless Chrome without having to do any setup or configuration.

Articles, Tutorials

Building a hybrid render farm on GCP—new guide available - New Guide to learn how to securely extend your on-premises render farm to Google Cloud.

Performing VM mass migrations to Google Cloud with Velostrata - Using Velostrata for VM mass migrations to Google Cloud.

Cloud AI Solutions: helping more industries solve common challenges with AI - Range of solutions to help businesses take advantage of AI for common use cases.

A closer look at our newest Google Cloud AI capabilities for developers - At Next ‘18, Google announced a range of updates to AI and machine learning offerings.

Hyperparameter tuning using TPUs in Cloud ML Engine - How to use hyperparameter tuning on TPUs on Cloud ML Engine.

What’s happening in BigQuery: integrated machine learning, maps, and more - New features that make BigQuery more performant and more cost effective.

How to do online prediction with BigQuery ML - How to pull out the necessary weights and scaling parameters from the training output tables and compute the prediction with BigQuery ML.

Predicting Taxi Fare Price With BigQuery ML - How BigQuery ML can be used to build liner regression model for taxi fare predictions with training 55M rows of data in 30 minutes.

7 best practices for operating containers - Best practices for operating containers to make application easier to operate, monitor and debug and harder to break into.

Installing Helm in Google Kubernetes Engine - Learn how to install Helm in Google Kubernetes Engine.

Scaling MongoDB on Kubernetes - Running and scaling a MongoDB cluster on Kubernetes.

Continuous Deployment for Node.js on Google Cloud Platform - Using Cloud Build,a managed build service in GCP for Continuous Deployment for Node.js on Google Cloud Platform.

Chapter 10: How to build a Google Home App with DialogFlow | Fulfillment via Cloud Datastore - Build Google Home App with DialogFlow - Using Cloud Datastore.

Deploy Open Source WordPress/Drupal in Google App Engine Flexible Environment - Learn to deploy wordpress in google app engine flexible environment.

Managing Java dependencies for Apache Spark applications on Cloud Dataproc - Include Java dependencies for Apache Spark applications on Cloud Dataproc.

Creating a Template for the Python Cloud Dataflow SDK - Creating a template for Google Cloud Dataflow, using python.

Using Cloud Dataflow to index documents into Elasticsearch - Setting up Elasticsearch for indexing documents using Cloud Dataflow.

Protecting against the new “L1TF” speculative vulnerabilities - Detail about L1TF vulnerabilities, how GCP mitigate guest-controlled entries not controlled by the host OS.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #142 Agones with Mark Mandel and Cyril Tovena. Discussion on dedicated game servers and their importance in game performance.

Kubernetes Podcast - #16 Descartes Labs, with Tim Kelton. Use of Kubernetes and Istio in geopolitics, machine learning and food supply.