TWiGCP — “Next OnAir, 1 week down, 8 to go : BigQuery Omni, confidential VMs and more!”
Cloud Next OnAir has kicked off and these links are your guide to the online event that will go on for another 8 weeks :
- Week 1 recap of Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir
- Next OnAir as it happens: All the announcements in one place
- Google Cloud Next ’20 : OnAir — the missing cheat sheet
Top GCP stories for this past week include :
- BigQuery Omni for multi-cloud data analytics (Google blog)
- Introducing Google Cloud Confidential Computing with Confidential VMs (Google blog)
- Assured Workloads for Government: Compliance without compromise (Google blog)
- Google Cloud’s Commitment to EU International Data Transfers and the CJEU Ruling (Google blog)
- Global HTTP(S) Load Balancing and CDN now support serverless compute (Google blog)
From the “Serverless remains a very active Google Cloud topic” department :
- Can Cloud Run handle these 9 workloads? — Serverless Toolbox | by Bret McGowen (medium.com)
- Event driven video transcoding using Google App Engine, Cloud PubSub and Cloud Data Store (medium.com)
- Multi Region Load Balancing with GO and Google Cloud Run — Part 1 (medium.com)
- Firebase hosting and Cloud Run cache | by Neil Kolban (medium.com)
- Google Cloud Functions on .NET (Alpha) | by Mete Atamel (medium.com)
From the “Close partnership with SAP solves real customer and developer problems” department :
- 3 business continuity challenges SAP customers face, and how Google Cloud can help (Google blog)
- SAP on Google Cloud: HANA HDI containers and CI/CD pipelines pt .2 | by Lucía Subatin (medium.com)
From the “Cloud Spanner new features and as best practice” department :
- Cloud Spanner: Read Statistics | by Mayur kale (medium.com)
- Cloud Spanner Change Publisher | by Knut Olav Løite (medium.com)
- Zero downtime database migration and replication to and from Cloud Spanner (medium.com)
From the ‘Security, auth, & permissions” department :
- Authenticating users with Google Sign-in | by Charles Engelke (medium.com)
- How to End User OAuth for GCP | by Warrick (medium.com)
- Map user permissions from Teradata to BigQuery (Google blog)
- Mitigating Data Exfiltration Risks in GCP using VPC Service Controls ( Part-1 ) | by Mukesh Khatta (medium.com)
From the “Kubernetes basics and GKE best practices” department :
- Kubernetes and Networks — why is this so dang hard? (speakerdeck.com)
- Bringing Traffic Into Your Kubernetes Cluster (speakerdeck.com)
- Designing and building highly available clusters (Google blog)
- Exposing GKE applications through Ingress and Services (Google blog)
From the “Getting you feet wet with Google Cloud products” department :
- Getting Started with Bigtable on GCP | by Christopher Grant (medium.com)
- Getting to know Looker — common use cases (Google blog)
From the “Architectural considerations” department :
- Cloud Solutions Reference Architectures (showcase.withgoogle.com)
- Scale and Resilience Aren’t Just Buzzwords | by Stephanie Wong (medium.com)
- Converting Monolith Applications into Microservices Using GCP | by Artem Nikulchenko (medium.com)
From the “Building apps, step-by-step” department :
- Managing payments in your app: setting up inventory | by Jen Person (medium.com)
- How to build a recommendation system on e-commerce data using BigQuery ML | by Polong Lin (medium.com)
From the “I guess this is what they call Earth infrastructure” department :
- Using subsea cables to detect earthquakes (Google blog)
From the “Isn’t every data app a variation of Extract Transform Load anyways?” department :
- Implementing ETL on GCP by Tyler Treat (blog.realkinetic.com)
From the “Applying the SRE theory to your GCP services” department :
- Setting SLOs: a step-by-step guide (Google blog)
From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :
- KeyBank migrates to BigQuery cloud data warehouse (Google blog)
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- [Video] Can AI make me a better athlete? | Using machine learning to analyze penalty kicks (youtube.com)
- [Video] How Istio Improves Reliability: Interview with Dan Ciruli, PM at Google (youtube.com)
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #112 — Open Source and the Open Usage Commons, with Chris DiBona (kubernetespodcast.com)
- [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #227 — Pandium with Cristina Flaschen and Kelly Sarabyn (gcppodcast.com)
From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 301.0.0
- [GA] GKE — Customer Managed Encryption Keys
- [GA] SSH from browser for non-public IP instances
- [GA] Using the Recommender Insights API
- [GA] Cloud Bigtable managed backups
- [GA] Cloud Spanner read statistics
- [GA] GCE Persistent Disk 1.2GB/s write throughput
- [Beta] GCE Suspend/Resume
- [Beta] Organization policy constraints for Cloud Load Balancing
- [Beta] Cloud Armor Pre-configured rules for named IP lists
- [Beta] Anthos Config management UI
- [Beta] Training with a custom service account
- [Beta] GKE new Ingress features
- [Beta] Private IP for AI Platform Online Prediction
That is all for this week!
-Alexis
