TWiGCP — “Windows apps on GKE, a new certification, BigQuery updates, and GKE Config Connector goes GA”
Here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud video series:
- Anthos has up to 4.8X ROI
- Lowering the cost of GPU-accelerated ML workloads
- Cloud data science and ML with open source tools
- Helping businesses create and extend applications without coding
Other top GCP stories for this past week include :
- Announcing new certifications for technical leaders and DevOps engineers (Google blog)
- Windows Server applications, welcome to Google Kubernetes Engine (Google blog)
- Config Connector bridges Kubernetes, GCP resources (Google blog)
- What’s happening in BigQuery: New federated queries, easier ML, and more metadata (Google blog)
From the “if and how to migrate” department :
- What to consider in an Apache Kafka to Pub/Sub migration (Google blog)
- Streaming pipelines with Scala and Kafka on Google Cloud Platform (medium.com)
From the “BigQuery to solve (most of) your data problems” department :
- Building and using an inventory of your Google Cloud Storage objects (medium.com)
- Top BigQuery superpowers for cloud data analytics (Google blog)
From the “DevOps principles and tooling” department :
- Tracking toil with SRE principles (Google blog)
- SLOs with Stackdriver Service Monitoring (medium.com)
From the “Simple Python app on GCP” department :
From the “this week in Knative” department :
- Deploying Your First Knative Service with the Serverless Framework (serverless.com)
- Knative and Cloud Run, portability in action (medium.com)
From the “lifehacking in the cloud” department :
- sethvargo/gcr-cleaner: Delete untagged image refs in Google Container Registry, as a service (github.com)
- Dynamic Dns With Google Cloud (ianbrown.id.au)
From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :
- Emaar adopts Apigee API management (Google blog)
- AXA Switzerland: Future-proofing the insurance business to help clients in a changing world (cloud.google.com)
- AISportsWatch: Livestreaming sports at scale with Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)
From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 278.0.0
- [GA] Cloud Code — Managing Cloud APIs and Libraries
- [GA] Distributing instances by using regional MIGs
- [GA] GKE Sandbox
- [GA] Network Load-Balancing Monitoring
- [GA] PostgreSQL version 10
- [Beta] Network Intelligence Center — Connectivity Tests
- [Beta] GKE — Creating a cluster using Windows Server node pools
- [Beta] Cloud Function — Connecting to a VPC network
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #88 — VMs, Edge, and Platform9, with Madhura Maskasky (kubernetespodcast.com)
- [Video] Continuous Delivery with Cloud Run (youtube.com)
- [Video] Stackdriver Sandbox (youtube.com)
That is all for this week!
-Alexis
