Google Cloud Platform newsletter, June 2018 | Next ’18 is a month away

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Newsletter | June 2018
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Sundar Pichai
Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Our principles on AI.
 
2018 Gartner IaaS Magic Quadrant
Google named a leader in the 2018 Gartner IaaS Magic Quadrant.
PLATFORM NEWS
Happy birthday, Kubernetes.
This month marks the fourth anniversary of the first Kubernetes commit. Here's a look at the world's most popular container orchestration platform – and the community behind its success.
 
The challenge: Launch Dragon Ball Legends to 3M gamers worldwide.
Extreme scalability? Global network? Real-time data analytics? Check, check, and check. Learn how Cloud Spanner and GCP infrastructure let BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment focus on developing their game, not spinning up servers.
Regional clusters on Kubernetes Engine now GA.
Regional clusters, one of the most requested Kubernetes Engine features, joins a host of enterprise enhancements to Kubernetes Engine 1.10, including increased availability and zero-downtime master upgrades.
 
Building the best ecosystem for SAP HANA.
Ultramem instances that support single-node installations up to 4 TB. Automated deployment. Support for Stackdriver, TensorFlow, and BigQuery. New features and integrations maximize the power of SAP HANA on GCP.
RESOURCES
App Engine standard offers fast deployment, auto-scaling, and one-click certificate generation for custom domains. Try it for your Node.js 8 apps.
Which compute option is right for you? A Google compute team member compares Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, App Engine, and Cloud Functions to help you find the answer.
Follow along to learn how to build your own high-velocity dev workflow. Go from code to deployment automatically, all while managing versioning, aliasing – and the ability to perform production debugging on the fly.
The team that wrote the book on site reliability engineering offers point-by-point advice for communicating support problems to cloud providers.
See how student scientists use accessible, purpose-built machine learning to trace fire risk – and track endangered whales with whale song.
With GCP as a target environment, you can test, bring up, and close down your DR environment when it's no longer needed.
CLOUD ONAIR
Join live Cloud OnAir webinars held weekly by Google Cloud experts.
 
CLOUD ONBOARD
Attend Cloud OnBoard, a series of free training events that offer a technical introduction to GCP.
OVERHEARD
Twitter @kovasb
Adopting Tensorflow at Twitter has IMO resulted in a phase transition in breadth and depth of ML projects, across the org. Moving faster, thinking bigger, collaborating more easily. Glad to have been involved in the beginning.
Twitter @kellan
Even 6 months ago AWS was the default. This month I haven't talked to a single person who isn't either on Gcloud or in the process of migrating.