TWiGCP — “Documentation PWA, secure and orchestrated pipelines, and the BigQuery challenge”
Here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud video series:
- Config Connector bridges Kubernetes, GCP resources
- Run Windows Server containers on GKE
- Tracking toil with SRE principles
- Get ready for the Game Developers Conference
Other top GCP stories for this past week include :
- Google Cloud Documentation gets a new look and new functionality (Google blog)
- Building more secure data pipelines with Cloud Data Fusion (Google blog)
- Write pipelines on-prem and in cloud with workflow orchestration (Google blog)
- Announcing the BigQuery Weekly Data Challenge (youtube.com)
From the “App modernization story” department :
- Part 1 (Prototype) (medium.com)
- Part 2 (Lift & Shift) (medium.com)
From the “RDBMS with or without Kubernetes” department :
- Connecting Cloud SQL — Kubernetes Sidecar (medium.com)
- Getting Started with SQL Server on GCP (medium.com)
From the “More Databases on GCP” department :
- InfluxDB goes live on Google Cloud (zdnet.com)
- Exporting and Importing data to/from Firestore using Google Sheets (liftcodeplay.com)
- The tradeoffs between performance, cost, and security with Firestore (medium.com)
- Sequence generation in Cloud Spanner (cloud.google.com)
From the “Kloud Native” department :
- GKE Config Sync overview (cloud.google.com)
- 2019 Annual Report | Knative (knative.dev)
- Securing Google Cloud Functions Using Service Account (medium.com)
- Test Pub/Sub with the Functions Framework and Pub/Sub Emulator (medium.com)
From the “streaming dataflow use-cases” department :
- Streaming Dialogflow on your Desktop/Device/Raspberry Pi (medium.com)
- Streaming Avro records into BigQuery using Dataflow (cloud.google.com)
From the “get your hands dirty with a fraud detection codelab” department :
- Explaining a fraud detection model with Cloud AI Platform (g.co/codelabs)
From the “surely there’s a thing or two you didn’t know about Cloud Shell” department :
- Getting the Best out of Google Cloud Shell (medium.com)
From the “moving billions of files and 100s of TB” department :
- Transfer Service for on-premises data Overview (cloud.google.com)
From the “massive new TV dataset” department :
- What Google’s Cloud Video AI Sees Watching Decade Of Television News (blog.gdeltproject.org)
- Some neat examples of the Video API’s OCR capabilities on the GDELT Project blog (blog.gdeltproject.org)
From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :
From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 279.0.0
- [GA] Creating Managed Instance Group instances with specific names
- [GA] Monitoring Network Load Balancing
- [GA] Routing between on-premises/cluster VPC and cluster master
- [GA] GKE Cluster autoscaler profiles
- [GA] Stackdriver Trace API v2
- [GA] Dataflow enhanced observability for troubleshooting batch and streaming pipelines
- [GA] GitHub app triggers
- [Beta] Recreate mode for Managed Instance Group Updater
- [Beta] Upgrading the Redis version for an instance
- [Beta] Cloud IAM Conditions for forwarding rules
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- [YouTube] How to Secure your Cloud Environment — Cloud Security Basics
- [YouTube] GCP vs. Firebase — Functions & Firestore
- [YouTube] Tensor Processing Units: History and Hardware (AI Adventures)
- [YouTube] Firebase Productivity Tips & Tricks #AskFirebase
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #89 — GitLab, with Marin Jankovski (kubernetespodcast.com)
That is all for this week!
-Alexis
