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In Google Compute Engine, number of CPUs and maximum available RAM is now decoupled, so for example now it's possible to create instance with 1 vCPU and 455 GB :) !!!

News

Compute Engine updates bring Skylake GA, extended memory and more VM flexibility - Lots of exiting news regarding Compute Engine: Newest server generation of Intel processors (Skylake) is Generally Available on Google Cloud, 64 vCPUs machine types are available in all regions, extended memory

Enhancing the Python experience on App Engine - Updating supported Python's versions both for Standard and Flexible GAE

Oregon region (us-west1) adds third zone, Cloud SQL and Regional Managed Instance Groups

Google Cloud services are switching Certificate Authority

Articles, Tutorials

From NoSQL to new SQL: How Spanner became a global, mission-critical database - Story of how Spanner was developed

After Lambda: Exactly-once processing in Cloud Dataflow, Part 2 (Ensuring low latency) - Using graph optimization and Bloom filters, Cloud Dataflow reduces latency of streaming data

Profiling GKE startup time - Investigating startup time for Kubernetes Pods

Visualize GCP Billing using BigQuery and Data Studio - Creating detailed billing reports of Google Cloud Platform with Data Studio

BigQuery partitioning with Beam streams - using TableReference functions

Life of a BigQuery streaming insert - In depth article about how streaming inserts work in BigQuery

Exploring the Cloud Vision API - Overiew of things you can do with Cloud Vision API

Benchmarking Firebase IndexOn - Time difference of indexed / not indexed queries in Firebase

Console, Json API, gsutil, Cloud Functions - Different ways to interact with Google Cloud Storage

Express.js on Cloud Functions for Firebase - to use middleware

Running Redis Cluster on Kubernetes - How to setup Kubernetes Redis cluster

Makefile – Get dynamic values from gcloud - How to easily parse values from gcloud output

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #79 Container Builder with Christopher Sanson and David Bendory

AppEngine: I was serverless, before it was cool Riga Dev Days

Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes on GCP

Native Go Development on GCP with the Context Package

Simple fast way to deploy lamp server on google cloud for wordpress web

Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow

Machine learning at scale with Google Cloud Platform