This week are holidays for all Google Cloud users since it's Google Cloud Next conference from 24th until 26th July. There are several articles related to "must see" or "top X" sessions for certain topics, because there are so many sessions :). Beside that, there are various news and announcement most notable quick reaction with improvements for account management based on bad customer experience article.

News

Improving our account management policies to better support customers - Improved GCP account management policies to better support for GCP customers.

Our Los Angeles cloud region is open for business - The Los Angeles Google Cloud Platform region is officially open.

Cloud Spanner adds import/export functionality to ease data movement - You can now import and export data easily in the Cloud Spanner Console.

Introducing commercial Kubernetes applications in GCP Marketplace - Production-ready commercial Kubernetes apps are now available on GCP marketplace (aka Cloud Launcher).

Now shipping: ultramem machine types with up to 4TB of RAM - General availability of Google Compute Engine “ultramem” memory-optimized machine types with up to 4TB of RAM.

VMware and Google Cloud: building the hybrid cloud together with vRealize Orchestrator - Preview of plug-in for VMware vRealize Orchestrator and support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources in vRealize Automation.

Bringing GPU-accelerated analytics to GCP Marketplace with MapD - Availability of MapD on Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.

BigQuery Updates - BigQuery has (finally) new UI.

Kubernetes wins OSCON Most Impact Award - At the Open Source Awards at OSCON 2018, Kubernetes won the inaugural Most Impact Award.

Articles, Tutorials

Top storage and database sessions to check out at Next 2018 - Five not-to-miss sessions for top storage and database sessions to check out at Next 2018.

5 must-see network sessions at Google Cloud NEXT 2018 - 5 must-see network sessions at Google Cloud NEXT 2018.

Google Cloud NEXT: A quick guide to Cloud Networking sessions - Brief overview of sessions related to Networking on Google Cloud Next.

SRE fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs - Learn about SRE fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs.

Terraform Pipelines in GitLab - Setting up terraform Pipelines in GitLab.

Static Hosting on GCP - High level overview of products on Google Cloud Platform which support static hosting.

Using gcloud and Python Client Library with Google Compute Engine - How to use gcloud and Python Client Library with Google Compute Engine.

Google App Engine — Cloud Storage Website and React Applications - Build Cloud Storage Website and React Applications using Google App Engine.

How do you manage environments in Django on Google App Engine? - Managing environments in Django on Google App Engine.

Using Environment Variables with Google Cloud Functions - How to use Environment Variables with Google Cloud Functions

Developing a JanusGraph-backed Service on Google Cloud Platform - The steps required to get a Java service up and running on Google Cloud Platform, accessing JanusGraph on a Cloud Bigtable cluster.

Deploy a basic Python application using Jenkins X & Kubernetes - Creating Kubernetes cluster using Jenkins X and setting CI/CD.

Kubernetes: DNS Proxy With Services - How to use the Kubernetes DNS Server to mask external services to look like internal services.

Google BigQuery — List all partitions in a partitioned table - Queries to list all partitions in a partitioned table in Google BigQuery.

Streaming data directly into BigQuery - Cost effective ways to streaming data directly into BigQuery.

Introduction to Google Cloud Storage - Overview of Google Cloud Storage.

Cloud SQL is Managed MySQL on GCP - Overview of setting up a Cloud SQL instance on Google Cloud Platform.

Using Google Pub/Sub Messaging with AppScale - Article goes through process of configuring AppScale (Google App Engine like environment) to send and receive messages through Pub/Sub emulator.

Uploading data to Cloud Datastore using Dataflow - Upload data from csv file into Datastore using Dataflow.

Apache Beam Tricks: Querying Google Datastore with Python - Querying Google Datastore with Python.

auditd agent config for Stackdriver Logging - How to configure auditd agent for Stackdriver Logging.

Google, Here We Come! - Sigma IDE now supports Google Cloud Platform.

Three reasons Google lags in the cloud – and four ways it can step on the gas - Analysis of Google Cloud Platform features.

Streamlining predictive analytics in retail marketing - Online flash-sale retailer Zulily uses BigQuery and Tableau to help power its predictive analytics, which, in turn, boosts its marketing efforts and ability to manage incoming data.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #136 - Robotics, Navigation, and Reinforcement Learning with Raia Hadsell.

Kubernetes Podcast - #12 Kubernetes Origins, with Joe Beda

Automated Deployments using Spinnaker - Take5 - How to build a container based CI/CD pipeline leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tools along with open source tool Spinnaker for deployment.

Multi-Cluster Ingress with Google Kubernetes Engine - Take5

Automated Deployments using Spinnaker - Take5