Google Cloud Newsletter, September 2018 | The state of DevOps

News, research, and resources for the Google Cloud community.

NEWSLETTER | SEPTEMBER 2018 Introducing the state of DevOps report. A survey of 1,900 DevOps professionals reveals how top-performing teams work. Get the report Cloud Source Repositories – now with Google-grade code search. Get started    Google Cloud grants $9M to help Kubernetes sail into the future. Learn more    Modernize at your own pace: Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud. Read more    PLATFORM NEWS Titan Security Keys: end-to-end account and identity protection. Built to the same FIDO standards that have helped keep 85,000 Google employees free from reported or detected phishing attacks since 2017, the Titan Security Key authenticates your identity across devices, platforms like GCP and G Suite, and browsers like Chrome. Data Solutions for Change: empowering nonprofits through large-scale analytics. Data Solutions for Change offers nonprofits and NGOs, like Harambee, credits and support for advanced GCP analytics solutions to help them solve real-world problems. How are TPUs fine-tuned for deep learning? Going up against non-TPU chips, TPUs were found in performance tests to cut training costs by up to 80%. So what's the difference between a CPU, a GPU, and a TPU? Get all the details at tpudemo.com. Google just gave an AI control over data center cooling. If AI can help a business save 40% on cooling costs, is it time to give it a try? According to the head of applied AI at DeepMind, this move marks the "first time that an autonomous industrial control system will be deployed at this scale." RESOURCES GCP Podcast: Mercari migrates from on-premises monolithic infrastructure to cloud microservices. Listen in to learn why, and how, Japan's largest online marketplace uses Kubernetes Engine to meet the needs of millions of daily active users. Using your existing identity and access management system with GCP. Sync your IAM system to GCP and manage users, groups, profiles, aliases, and more using a range of methods, including G Suite connectors. Introducing headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine. Run headless Chrome without any setup or configuration and see why it's useful to bring all the features of a modern web platform to the command line. Tune the output to your audience with Cloud Speech-to-Text and Cloud Text-to-Speech updates. Build apps in 14 languages with 56 different voices, and learn how the Ingram Content Group creates book previews for over 18 million titles. Test-drive Cloud Source Repositories and sync them with GitLab. Don't want to pay for a three-machine cluster just to run your development project? This small .gitlab-ci.yml will push commits over to GCP. Get the most out of Kubernetes: seven best practices for operating containers. These best practices and comprehensive resources help make your app easier to operate, monitor, and debug – and harder to break into. Google Cloud Public Datasets Program gets five more petabytes for geospatial and ML-based analytics. The only ML-ready public dataset program adds capacity, datasets (like the new Ethereum dataset), and support for BigQuery GIS and Geo Viz. UPCOMING EVENTS Google Cloud Next '18, London October 10–11   Google Cloud Summit, Hong Kong October 10 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 Google Cloud Platform. PODCASTS GCP Podcast Listen to the GCP Podcast, a weekly roundup of interviews with experts, answers to listener questions, and the Cool Things of the Week segment. Kubernetes Podcast Each week, the Kubernetes Podcast covers the latest news and insights from the growing Kubernetes community. OVERHEARD @beniwohli The @elastic infra team is fricken awesome! They just switched on dynamic Jenkins workers for my team. Which means that running the tests on an Elastic APM Python Agent pull request now launches a good 200 GCP machines in parallel! @benhamner Excited to see Google Dataset Search go live! It indexes metadata on open datasets, and should be another useful tool for helping researchers, analysts, and the curious public find helpful open datasets toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch Follow us on social media Add your voice to the conversation and get the latest news, views, and insights.

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