TWiGCP — “Cloud Run & Contact Center AI hit GA + introducing Batch on GKE & Network Intelligence Center”

Alexis MP

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Nov 18, 2019

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Here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud video series:

• Cloud TPU breaks scalability records for AI Inference
• Exploring the machine learning models behind Cloud IAM Recommender
• TensorFlow Enterprise makes accessing data on Google Cloud faster and easier
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019

Top GCP stories for this past week include numerous product announcements :

• Knative-based Cloud Run services are GA (Google blog)
• Google Cloud launches Network Intelligence Center (Google blog)
• Contact Center AI is now generally available (Google blog)
• Run batch workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (Google blog)
• Autoscaling capabilities for Hadoop and Spark clusters (Google blog)
• Introducing Apigee’s new Advanced API Ops (Google blog)

From the “what the Budget API can do for you” department :

• Monitor cloud costs and create budgets at scale (Google blog)

From the “what does it take to deliver 72TB/sec” department :

• Google’s Curie private subsea cable is ready for service between the U.S. and Chile, with a branch to Panama (Google blog)
• Curie: A look inside Google’s International Private Subsea Cable (youtube.com)

From the “Google and others putting AI to work” department :

• Using The Inference API To Explore The Natural Language API’s Annotations Of 100 Million News Articles (blog.gdeltproject.org)
• The machine learning techniques used in Cloud IAM Recommender (Google blog)
• Using Recommendations for Infrastructure as Code (cloud.google.com)

From the “There’s more to Serverless Google Cloud than Cloud Run” department :

• [Video] Serverlessconf New York 2019: Serverless: An ops experience of a programming model? | Donna Malayeri (acloud.guru)
• [Video] Serverlessconf New York 2019: Killing Kubernetes | Ian Fuller (acloud.guru)
• [Video] “Functions Framework” (youtube.com)
• Go Functions Framework (medium.com)

From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :

• [GA] Cloud SDK 271.0.0
• [GA] Cloud Run
• [GA] Traffic director
• [GA] Cloud Firestore IN Queries
• [GA] VPC Network Peering
• [1.4] Announcing Istio 1.4
• [Beta] Batch on GKE
• [Beta] VPC Packet Mirroring
• [Beta] Network Topology

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Video] Get started with Network Topology in Network Intelligence Center (youtube.com)
• [Video] “Using Jib to build Docker Images” (youtube.com)
• [Video] “Getting Started with the What-if Tool” (youtube.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #79 — Cloud Native Rejekts, with Chris Kühl (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #203 — Cloud Run GKE with Donna Malayeri (gcppodcast.com)

That is all for this week!
-Alexis