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Simplify Cloud VPC firewall management with service accounts

Thursday, January 4, 2018

By Daniel Merino, Technical Program Manager and Srinath Padmanabhan, Product Marketing Manager Google Cloud VPCservice accounts

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Introducing Preemptible GPUs: 50% Off

Thursday, January 4, 2018

By Chris Kleban and Michael Basilyan, GCE Product Managerslower pricing for Local SSDs attached to Preemptible VMsloweredPreemptible GPUsannouncedocumentationappend --preemptible to your instance create commandscheduling.preemptibletrueREST APIPreemptible GPUs quota

managed instance groupsheresatellite image analysisquestions in quantum physicscomputational mathematicsdrug screening "Preemptible GPU instances from GCP give us the best combination of affordable pricing, easy access and sufficient scalability. In our drug discovery programs, cheaper computing means we can look at more molecules, thereby increasing our chances of finding promising drug candidates. Preemptible GPU instances have advantages over the other discounted cloud offerings we have explored, such as consistent pricing and transparent terms. This greatly improves our ability to plan large simulations, control costs and ensure we get the throughput needed to make decisions that impact our projects in a timely fashion." — Woody Sherman, CSO, Silicon Therapeutics TwitterFacebookG+preemptible documentationGPU documentationbest practicesCompute Engine pricing pagepricing calculatorGetting Helpsign up for Google Cloud PlatformPreemptible GPUs

Consequences of SLO violations — CRE life lessons

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

By Alex Bramley, Customer Reliability EngineerCRE life lessonsquantifying a service's availabilityusing SLOsGood SLOs Features or reliability?spherical SREs Inflection pointsblameless postmortemsnot enough error budget burned to notify anyone immediatelysomeone needs to investigate this right now before the service is out of its long-term SLO. ConsequencesNotify someone of potential or actual SLO violationEscalate the violation to the relevant dev teamMitigate risk of service changes causing further impact to SLOsRevoke support for the service Summary

What a year! Google Cloud Platform in 2017

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

By Alex Barrett and Barrett Williams, Google Cloud blog editorsGoogle Cloud Platform

You love to hear about advanced infrastructure: CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, better network plumbing and more regions.

How we harden our infrastructure is endlessly interesting to you, as are tips about how to use our security services.

Open source is always a crowd-pleaser, particularly if it presents a cloud-native solution to an age-old problem.

You’re inspired by Google innovation — unique technologies that we developed to address internal, Google-scale problems. So, without further ado, we present to you the most-read stories of 2017.

Cutting-edge infrastructurefirst cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake architectureGPUs for Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learningwhy cloud GPUs made senseperformance of TPUsthen-largest cloud-based compute clusternew GPU modelsmachine types with a whopping 96 vCPUs and 624GBEspresso, our peering-edge architectureTCP BBR congestion controlAndromeda 2.1Dedicated InterconnectNetwork Service TiersTransfer ApplianceNorthern VirginiaSingaporeSydneyLondonGermanySao PaoloMumbaiexpanded to Mars Security above allsecure our infrastructureSecurity in plaintext series7 ways we harden our KVM hypervisorFuzzing PCI ExpressTitan in depthCloud Key Managementmanaged SSL certificates for App Engine applicationsBeyondCorp as a more secure alternative to VPNGDPR data protection laws Open, hybrid developmentKubernetes 1.8advanced management featuresGoogle Kubernetes EnginePivotal Container Servicenew partnership with CiscoCloud Container BuilderSpinnaker 1.0IstioGrafeasPartnering on open sourcerelease canariesAPI design: Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs Google innovation Cloud SpannerCAP TheoremandCloud IoT Corean incidenthow to use Cloud Dataprep, Dataflow, and BigQuerydon’t need a PhD to learn to use TensorFlowTensorFlow Playgrounda game of rock-paper-scissorslighthearted and relatable exampleVideo Intelligence APItraining a custom object detectoradd machine learning to your IoT projectsNext

Greetings from North Pole Operations! All systems go!

Friday, December 22, 2017

By Merry, Chief Information Elf, North PoleGoogle Cloud Platform

— Teddy Ruxpinstoy carstrading card gamesmicroservices

Here's an example of the Letter Processing Microservice, which takes handwritten letter in all languages (often including spelling and grammatical errors) and turns each one into text.

VMstour of a data centercloud computingprojects, folders and orgsapplicationsystem

Small elves, big data

Deck the halls with SLO dashboards service level indicator or SLIservice level objective or SLOStackdriveralerting policies

Merry monitoring for all “internet of things” or IoT

All I want for Christmas is machine learning machine learning or MLCloud ML engine Tis the season for sharing —free trial —

One year of Cloud Performance Atlas

Thursday, December 21, 2017

By Colt McAnlis, Developer Advocate
5. The bandwidth delay problemvideoarticle 4. Improving CDN performance with custom keysCloud CDNCustom Cache Keysvideoarticle
3. Google Cloud Storage and the sequential filename challengeGoogle Cloud Storagefile path namesequentialvideoarticle 2. Improving Compute Engine boot time with custom imagesvideoarticlecustom image of boot diskscustom images 1. App Engine boot time App Enginevideoarticle,
See you soon!Cloud FunctionsCloud SpannerCloud Performance Atlas videos on Youtubearticle series on Medium