TWiGCP — “Google Cloud trust, SQL Server in beta, and a bit of Quantum”
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3 min readOct 28, 2019
Here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud video series:
- Accelerating cloud adoption in Poland with key partnership and a new cloud region
- Improve your connectivity to Google Cloud with enhanced hybrid connectivity options
- Make your voice heard in the Global Knowledge 2020 IT Skills and Salary Survey
- Learning Machine Learning — An online comic from Google AI
Other top GCP stories for this past week include :
- Cloud database service for SQL Server now available (Google blog)
- Demonstrating our commitment to protecting our customers’ data in the cloud (Google blog)
- What our quantum computing milestone means (Google blog)
- Journey to differentiation: Reimagining customer success through Partner Expertise and Specialization (Google blog)
- Google’s new case study on renewable energy auctions (cloud.google.com)
From the “This week in databases” department :
- Elastically scaling your MySQL environment (cloud.google.com)
- Getting started with Cloud SQL for SQL Server (stephanefrechette.dev)
From the “This week in cloud-native” department :
- What happens when a Kubernetes vulnerability is reported (Google blog)
- Inspecting kubectl traffic with mitmproxy (ahmet.im)
- A guide to PCI DSS compliance on Google Kubernetes Engine (Google blog)
- GKE usage metering is GA, adds tools to tackle overprovisioning (Google blog)
From the “This week in serverless” department :
- Using Headless Chrome with Cloud Run (dev.to)
- Authenticating with gRPC on Cloud Run (ahmet.im)
- Cloud Run is now HIPAA-compliant (cloud.google.com)
- Secure Cloud Run, Cloud Functions and App Engine with API Key (medium.com)
From the “This week in infrastructure” department :
- Deploying centralized VM-based appliances using VPC network peering (cloud.google.com)
- Deploying centralized VM-based appliances using internal TCP/UDP load balancer as the next hop (cloud.google.com)
- “Persistent Disks and Replication” (medium.com)
- Bringing Teradata Vantage to Google Cloud (Google blog)
- Find and fix misconfigurations in your Google Cloud resources (Google blog)
From the “This week in big data” department :
- Is your pipeline fine? Managing and monitoring a Cloud Dataflow setup (Google blog)
- Google BigQuery: A Tutorial for Marketers (conversionxl.com)
- Protecting data analytics pipelines with encryption keys (Google blog)
- Visualizing Entity Networks Through The GEG: BigQuery, Gephi & Cloud Natural Language API (blog.gdeltproject.org)
From the “This week in ML/AI” department :
Krzysztof’s “GCP Goodies” Series :
- Stackdriver monitoring (blog.softwaremill.com)
- Stackdriver logging and log based alerting (blog.softwaremill.com)
- Stackdriver Tracing (blog.softwaremill.com)
- Stackdriver Profiler (blog.softwaremill.com)
- Stackdriver debugging (blog.softwaremill.com)
From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :
From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 268.0.0
- [GA] Block storage performance — 100K read IOPS (64+ vCPUs)
- [GA] Cloud Memorystore for Redis Maxmemory configuration
- [GA] BigQuery scripting — DECLARE variables
- [GA] Managing OS Login in an organization
- [Beta] Cloud SQL for SQL Server
- [Beta] App Engine Standard — Python 3.8
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- “Who’s There? — Exploring Cloud Identity” (youtube.com)
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #76 — Pulumi, with Joe Duffy (kubernetespodcast.com)
- [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #200 — Massive with Björn Lindberg (gcppodcast.com)
That is all for this week!
-Alexis
