In case you missed in July: The Kubernetes community grows, Cloud Platform goes to the World Cup, and a whole lot more
Friday, August 1, 2014
In case you happened to miss some of the Cloud Platform news in July, we’ve got a round-up for you:
Expanding the Kubernetes community
This month, we announced that Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack are joining the Kubernetes community. Kubernetes is our open source container management solution. These companies are going to work with us to ensure that Kubernetes is a strong container management framework for any application and in any environment - whether in a private, public or hybrid cloud.
Cloud Platform predicts the World Cup
We kicked off the month with a focus on the World Cup. We used Google Cloud Dataflow to ingest touch-by-touch gameplay data from World Cup matches going back to 2006 as well as three years of English Barclays Premier League, two seasons of Spanish La Liga, and two seasons of U.S. MLS. We then polished the raw data into predictive statistics using Google BigQuery. At the end of the day, we correctly predicted the final outcome as well as 11 of 12 of the games leading up to it. You can read our posts after the round of 16, after the quarterfinals, and before the final.
A great new way to learn about App Engine
We launched a new course on Udacity: Developing Scalable Apps with Google App Engine. We’ve already gotten great feedback from developers, and a few of our favorite sections are Urs talking about what makes App Engine unique as well as a brief history of the data center (pizza boxes included).
More container news: Red Hat Enterprise Atomic Host comes to Compute Engine
Jim Totton, Vice President and General Manager at Red Hat, wrote on our blog about Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host coming to Google Compute Engine. This provides a secure, lightweight and minimal footprint operating system optimized to run Linux Containers on Google’s infrastructure.
More great customers
We featured lots of great customers who are using Google Cloud Platform to power their business. Webydo, a B2B solution for professional web design, cut costs by 37% when they moved to Google Cloud Platform. And US Cellular is using BigQuery for “highly flexible analysis of large datasets.” This has allowed them to better measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
David LaBine, Director of education software for SMART Technologies, wrote on our blog that using App Engine means “developers [at SMART Technologies] are more productive because they’re able to focus on writing new features rather than worrying about infrastructure…” Rafael Sanches, co-founder of Allthecooks, wrote on our blog that, “Google Cloud Platform played a key role in helping us grow... Since launching, we’ve grown to over 12 million users with a million monthly active users. Our application now sees millions of interactions daily that run through Google App Engine and Google Cloud Datastore. “
Finally, Brightcove and Fastly wrote on our blog that “because Google Cloud Platform launches instances in less than half the time of the rest of the industry, Fastly is able to launch new customers through Brightcove in a turnkey way.”
More product news
We introduced the Google Cloud Monitoring Read API, giving developers programmatic access to over 30 different metrics about their services, including CPU usage, disk IO and much more. Cloud Monitoring Read API allows you to query current and historical metric data for up to the past 30 days.
Also, click-to-deploy Apache Cassandra makes it easy to launch a dedicated Apache Cassandra cluster on Google Compute Engine. All it takes is one click after some basic information. In a matter of minutes, you can get a complete Cassandra cluster deployed and configured.
The roadshows kicked off
The Google Cloud Platform developer roadshow visited Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle in July. But, we’ve still got much of the tour coming up, so join us on the road to speak with the Cloud Platform team. You can still catch us in New York City (August 5), Cambridge (August 7), Boulder (August 12), Toronto (August 12), Austin (August 14), Atlanta (August 19), and Chicago (August 22). Click here to register.
-Posted by Benjamin Bechtolsheim, Product Marketing Manager
Expanding the Kubernetes community
This month, we announced that Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack are joining the Kubernetes community. Kubernetes is our open source container management solution. These companies are going to work with us to ensure that Kubernetes is a strong container management framework for any application and in any environment - whether in a private, public or hybrid cloud.
Cloud Platform predicts the World Cup
We kicked off the month with a focus on the World Cup. We used Google Cloud Dataflow to ingest touch-by-touch gameplay data from World Cup matches going back to 2006 as well as three years of English Barclays Premier League, two seasons of Spanish La Liga, and two seasons of U.S. MLS. We then polished the raw data into predictive statistics using Google BigQuery. At the end of the day, we correctly predicted the final outcome as well as 11 of 12 of the games leading up to it. You can read our posts after the round of 16, after the quarterfinals, and before the final.
A great new way to learn about App Engine
We launched a new course on Udacity: Developing Scalable Apps with Google App Engine. We’ve already gotten great feedback from developers, and a few of our favorite sections are Urs talking about what makes App Engine unique as well as a brief history of the data center (pizza boxes included).
More container news: Red Hat Enterprise Atomic Host comes to Compute Engine
Jim Totton, Vice President and General Manager at Red Hat, wrote on our blog about Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host coming to Google Compute Engine. This provides a secure, lightweight and minimal footprint operating system optimized to run Linux Containers on Google’s infrastructure.
More great customers
We featured lots of great customers who are using Google Cloud Platform to power their business. Webydo, a B2B solution for professional web design, cut costs by 37% when they moved to Google Cloud Platform. And US Cellular is using BigQuery for “highly flexible analysis of large datasets.” This has allowed them to better measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
David LaBine, Director of education software for SMART Technologies, wrote on our blog that using App Engine means “developers [at SMART Technologies] are more productive because they’re able to focus on writing new features rather than worrying about infrastructure…” Rafael Sanches, co-founder of Allthecooks, wrote on our blog that, “Google Cloud Platform played a key role in helping us grow... Since launching, we’ve grown to over 12 million users with a million monthly active users. Our application now sees millions of interactions daily that run through Google App Engine and Google Cloud Datastore. “
Finally, Brightcove and Fastly wrote on our blog that “because Google Cloud Platform launches instances in less than half the time of the rest of the industry, Fastly is able to launch new customers through Brightcove in a turnkey way.”
More product news
We introduced the Google Cloud Monitoring Read API, giving developers programmatic access to over 30 different metrics about their services, including CPU usage, disk IO and much more. Cloud Monitoring Read API allows you to query current and historical metric data for up to the past 30 days.
Also, click-to-deploy Apache Cassandra makes it easy to launch a dedicated Apache Cassandra cluster on Google Compute Engine. All it takes is one click after some basic information. In a matter of minutes, you can get a complete Cassandra cluster deployed and configured.
The roadshows kicked off
The Google Cloud Platform developer roadshow visited Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle in July. But, we’ve still got much of the tour coming up, so join us on the road to speak with the Cloud Platform team. You can still catch us in New York City (August 5), Cambridge (August 7), Boulder (August 12), Toronto (August 12), Austin (August 14), Atlanta (August 19), and Chicago (August 22). Click here to register.
-Posted by Benjamin Bechtolsheim, Product Marketing Manager
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