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NEWSLETTER | DECEMBER 2018 It's been a big year for Google Cloud. Take a look back – and get a glimpse into the future – with the most popular stories of 2018. Read more Pandora makes the move to GCP – and tames big data and analytics workloads. See why    Evaluate, mitigate, and act on threats with Cloud Security Command Center. Learn how    Join us at Google Cloud Next '19 for $899. Use code SFGRNGCP by 12/31. Register now    PLATFORM NEWS Hong Kong, the newest GCP region, is open for business. Are you a GCP user in Southeast Asia? You could see end-user latency improve 25%–30%, thanks to the latest of three APAC regions to open in the past 18 months. Hong Kong customers can get a boost of 14ms. Next in APAC: Jakarta. Google Cloud first to offer NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs. Get fast, cost-effective machine learning inference – or supercharge graphics workloads with real-time ray tracing, AI, and rasterization. Try out the T4's 130 TFLOPS of compute performance yourself with a preconfigured Cloud Deep Learning VM Image. Super-elastic collision: Google joins CERN openlab. CERN, birthplace of the World Wide Web, is also home to the Large Hadron Collider. Google support of upgrades to the LHC – built to reveal the building blocks of the universe – could also expand the frontiers of storage, ML, and quantum computation. Cloud Services Platform: accelerating Kubernetes for enterprises. Cloud Services Platform combines Kubernetes and Istio with Google infrastructure to deliver one-click Istio deployment, click-to-deploy Kubernetes apps on the GCP Marketplace, and significantly enhanced networking and security. RESOURCES Google Cloud Adoption Framework: Move to the cloud with confidence. Assess your cloud readiness with insights from the Google Cloud professional services team – or find out how your data warehouse stacks up. Now on GitHub: The Google Cloud Developer's Cheat Sheet – every product in four words or less. Fork it. Print hi-res posters for the break room. Or just use the repo as a one-stop shop with links to all of GCP, Firebase, Apigee, Maps, and G Suite. The nightmare before Christmas: How GCP helped globally scale the multiplayer Halloween Doodle. Over 65 hours, the Doodle served over 100 million players in 62 countries. It's peak? A five-minute concurrent load of over 500,000 users. Create portable, repeatable ML workflows with Kubeflow Pipelines. Compose, deploy, manage – and even experiment – with end-to-end ML workflows, from prototyping to production, all without vendor lock-in. IoT for thee: Google Cloud and Microchip tie a bow on an 8-bit MCU with the AVR-IoT WG kit. Connect your devices to Cloud IoT Core for free with a single click. At $29, the AVR-IoT WG dev board is just in time for the holidays. See all the updates to Firebase, our mobile dev platform, in one handy list. It's the "State of Firebase," 2018. Add the power of GCP machine learning to mobile apps with the ML kit, and check out Cloud Functions, Firebase Cloud Messaging – or the remote config REST API. 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. 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. Congrats on reaching two million downloads. VIDEO RESOURCES Build microservices in the cloud with Kubernetes and Istio.    Learn how Scaling sharable, interactive dashboards with Google Data Studio and BigQuery.    Watch now Cloud Performance Atlas: Manage application performance with Stackdriver.    See Colt OVERHEARD @bsaeta #CloudTPUs + @TensorFlow are the fastest platform for ML. On the popular (and now quite silly) ResNet-50 ImageNet benchmark, one TPUv3 Pod finishes in 2.2 minutes at full accuracy (76.3% top-1)! Approx 2x faster than extremely large GPU clusters. Details: arxiv.org/abs/1811.06992 @ahmetb Here's a quick sketch explaining Google Cloud Scheduler, our new cronjob-as-a-service. Read more at cloud.google.com/scheduler/ Follow us on social media. Add your voice to the conversation and get the latest news, views, and insights.

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