In the last episode for 2016, Mark and Francesc look at all their favourite moments from this year, including their favourite episodes, guests and Cool Things of the Week.
Cool thing of the week
- Google partners with Improbable to support next generation of video games blog
- Announcing new Google Cloud Client Libraries for four key services blog
- Kubernetes 1.5: Supporting Production Workloads blog
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Mark’s Favourites
Francesc’s Favourites
Favourite Cool Things of the Week Francesc’s Favourites
Spotify is now on Google Cloud Platform:
- Spotify chooses Google Cloud Platform to power data infrastructure blog
- Announcing Spotify Infrastructure’s Googley Future blog
- Google’s BigQuery is da bomb - I can start with 2.2Billion ‘things’ and compute/summarize down to 20K in < 1 min. tweet
Kubernetes and Google Container Engine
- Kubernetes 1.3 on tap for Google Container Engine blog
- Google Container Engine now on Kubernetes 1.4 blog
- Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog
Education:
- CP100A: Google Cloud Platform Foundations courses
- New Google Cloud Platform Education Grants offer free credits to students blog
- Kubernetes class on Udacity blog
Mark’s Favourites
Multiple General Availabilities
- Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are now generally available blog
- Cloud Router docs
- Cloud CDN docs
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) docs
Machine Learning and Big Data
- How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow blog
- Decoding the micro-moments of baseball: can you hear the game through data? blog
- Introducing Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API open beta and our West Coast region expansion blog
- Powering geospatial analysis: public geo datasets now on Google Cloud blog
- Introducing the Open Images Dataset blog
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We’ll be back on January 18th, 2017 - See you all then!