2017 year in review, CIO guide to open development

Google Cloud Newsletter, December 2017. Cloud trends, resources, and platform news.

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Newsletter  |  December 2017 GCP 2017 year in review CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs. Seven new regions across three continents. Open app development. ML and big data. It's been a big year. READ MORE

The CIO's guide to open application development GET THE GUIDE    Moving The New York Times' games platform to GCP with zero downtime READ HOW

PLATFORM NEWS Google Kubernetes Engine eliminates cluster management fee On GKE, your master VM – and your Kubernetes cluster – can scale and upgrade automatically. It's all secured by Google SREs with a 99.5% SLO. Also, check out new highly available regional masters and clusters. BigQuery adds security features for enterprise Customer-managed encryption keys, custom IAM roles, query filtering in the web UI, and support for wildcard tables make it easier to securely search and share big data workloads with BigQuery. The new maker toolkit: IoT, AI, and Google Cloud Platform Looking for a DIY project this holiday season? Want to to become an IoT engineering hobbyist? Use our AIY Voice Kit and Particle Photon to build, host, and refine your own voice-powered IoT app on GCP. Pre-trained ML models classify your content at scale Cloud Vision and Cloud Natural Language help GIPHY sort content into 700+ categories to serve over three billion GIFs a day. What can you do with Cloud Video Intelligence and its 20,000 labels?

RESOURCES Graphic content ahead: Kubernetes gets the comic treatment Have trouble visualizing how Kubernetes works? This comic, by the aptly named Scott McCloud, illustrates it all. Get started on Google Kubernetes Engine with all new documentation Updated quickstarts, how-tos, and courses teach you how to dramatically streamline app development with GKE. A moment of Grace: One fan's collection of the year in GCP flowcharts Which compute option to choose? Storage type? Network tier? See all our charts in one handy post. (PS: the GCP crossword may be even better.) Google Cloud Performance Atlas video: Get the perfect VM config Learn how to rightsize your VMs with recommendations GCP generates automatically from your last eight days of usage. Tabs vs. spaces was just the beginning: Answer GitHub's big questions with BigQuery Query all 42+ terabytes of GitHub open source code in BigQuery. Max out your free terabyte with this roundup of resources. Sony developers use GCP to share their internal tools with the world To streamline development, Sony devs built three SaaS products that were so good, they started Rocro. Harvard Business Review: Three ways companies are building business around AI The ability to capture, store, and analyze your unique data is key to adding AI to your business. GCP can help.

UPCOMING WEBINARS An open system approach to IoT on GCP January 10, 2018, at 11:00 AM PT Connecting microcontrollers to Google Cloud IoT Core with Mongoose OS January 18, 2018, 11:00 AM PT Big weather in BigQuery January 24, 2018, 11:00 AM PT ON-DEMAND TRAINING EVENTS From data to insights with Google Cloud Platform specialization Developing applications with Google Cloud Platform specialization

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