TWiGCP — “$8B, Spinnaker for GCP, and evolutionary selection for better driving”
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3 min readJul 29, 2019
To start with, here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud’s video series :
- Introducing the What-If Tool for Cloud AI Platform models
- [Codelab] Using the What-if Tool to compare Cloud AI Platform models
- Handbooks and Code Samples for Software Engineers wanting to learn the Keras Machine Learning framework
- Keep calm and query on: Running your databases in GCP
Other top GCP stories for this past week include :
- Google Cloud’s run rate is now over $8B (techcrunch.com)
- Introducing Spinnaker for Google Cloud Platform (Google blog)
- DeepMind and Waymo: how evolutionary selection can train more capable self-driving cars (deepmind.com)
- Improving speech recognition for contact centers (Google blog)
From the “are you using GCP products to their fullest potential?” department :
- Least privilege for Cloud Functions using Cloud IAM (Google blog)
- What’s happening in BigQuery: New persistent user-defined functions, increased concurrency limits, GIS and encryption functions, and more (Google blog)
- [Codelab] Using the What-if Tool to compare Cloud AI Platform models (g.co/codelabs)
From the “turning GCP products into solutions” department :
- Connecting Firebase and Unity to create a gaming leaderboard in MechaHamster (cloud.google.com)
- How to use BigQuery ML for anomaly detection (Google blog)
- Migration from MySQL to Cloud SQL (cloud.google.com)
- Transferring data from Amazon S3 to Cloud Storage using VPC Service Controls and Storage Transfer Service (cloud.google.com)
From the “surely you’ll learn a thing or two in those how-to’s” department :
- GCP developer pro-tips: How to schedule a recurring Python script on GCP (Google blog)
- Debugging Node Google Cloud Functions Locally in VS Code! (medium.com)
- How to pass data between Cloud Build steps (medium.com)
- Using the App Engine flexible environment on a Shared VPC network (cloud.google.com)
- Programmatic access to Firebase Realtime Database rules (firebase.google.com)
From the “this week in serverless, from containers to languages” department :
- Choosing an init process for running multiple processes in containers (medium.com)
- Cloud Run: multiple processes in a container (the lazy way) (ahmet.im)
- A dozen reasons why Cloud Run complies with the Twelve-Factor App methodology (Google blog)
- Happy birthday Knative! Celebrating one year of portable serverless computing (Google blog)
- Serverless PHP on App Engine + Firestore (medium.com)
From the “these certification articles are always popular, so here’s another one” department :
From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 255.0.0
- [GA] App Engine flexible environment on a Shared VPC network
- [GA] Dataproc and Cloud Spanner Access Transparency
- [Beta] Improving accuracy with speech adaptation
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- [Screencast] Spinnaker for Google Cloud Platform lightning demo (youtube.com)
- [Video] Zack Akil: Safer Cycling with an Edge TPU watching your back | PyData London 2019 (youtube.com)
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #63 — Economics of Kubernetes, with Owen Rogers (kubernetespodcast.com)
- [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #187 — Instruqt with Adé Mochtar (gcppodcast.com)
That is all for this week!
-Alexis
