Kubernetes 1.8 and Google Container Engine (GKE) optimize containers on GCP

Google Cloud Newsletter, October 2017. Cloud trends, resources, and platform news.
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Java 8
Java 8: now on App Engine
PLATFORM NEWS
 
By 2030 data centers will consume 13% of the world's electricity. By the end of 2017, all of Google will be 100% powered by renewable energy – and so will your business on GCP.
Cloud IoT Core allows you to easily connect and centrally manage millions of globally dispersed devices. New features let you bring your own certificates and connect existing devices over HTTP.
New features extend the ability of Cloud Natural Language API to automatically classify content into 700 categories. Quickly gauge sentiment about entities and objects – and understand how users feel about your products.
High-performance options now include NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 and K80 GPUs – and the ability to add up to 96 vCPUs and 624 GB of memory. Custom machine types are tailored to your workloads' requirements.
RESOURCES
 
Get started with Kubernetes on Container Engine
Follow this tutorial to build a containerized web app on GKE. Want more? Check out all of our how-tos and tutorials.
Making audio and video keyword searchable with the Cloud Speech API
With word-level timestamps it's possible to automatically transcribe audio from video content. Watch the demo.
Stream Google Analytics 360 data to BigQuery – every 10 minutes
Perform current-day analysis 48x faster. Not on GA360? Create real-time dashboards for end-to-end streaming analytics.
DIY: Use a chatbot to create Cloud Storage buckets
Using events to trigger commands in Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Storage is as easy as having a Slack chat.
Bring your own data to make a state-of-the-art object detector
Want to identify raccoons – or revolutionize healthcare? Train your own models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API.
UPCOMING EVENTS
 
Cloud OnAir Events
Connect with Google Cloud product managers and engineers.
Automating IT using Kubernetes: Learn to use containers to increase productivity and efficiency.
November 15, 2017
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Americas – December 5, 2017
Europe & Asia Pacific – December 6, 2017
OVERHEARD
 
Twitter@ofrobots
One of the many reasons why @googlecloud is the best place to run your @nodejs apps: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=6800….
Twitter@stilkov
Kubernetes? Software-defined networking? I guess Google is at least 5 years ahead in infrastructure