Hello, cloud gurus. I'm Mattias Anderson. This month,
GCP does the hokey pokey to move data around.
And although really that's what it's all about.
We also have the cloud digital leader certification going mainstream,
new row level security in big query, global cloud DNS for GKE,
all this and more right here on GCP this month.
But before we jump into the news, a very timely announcement.
We at a cloud guru are putting on a free community summit on June 28th
to 30th from noon to 4:00 PM Eastern time each day.
So if you're watching this before then,
and you still have a chance to participate and maybe even snag some swag,
follow the link in the description to learn more about GCP, AI, devops, AWS,
Azure, and Linux we'll have deep dives hands-on challenges live learning.
And each day we'll end with a panel about cloud certifications,
a couple of them, including yours, truly. So I hope to see you there.
Did I already mention that it's all free too? Well anyway, onto the GCP news.
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This month, I want to start with our gems.
Now I will admit that these announcements came in at the very end of may,
but Google held their data cloud summit after our press deadline,
which is why we're including them. In this June episode. First off,
we have data stream,
a new serverless service to capture data changes and replicate them.
This can be an amazing opportunity to unlock the value of data you have hidden
away in various places like Oracle and mySQL databases and push it to
cloud storage.
But cloud storage is only an intermediary because data flow processing templates
can take it from there to shuttle the data off to all sorts of different
destinations, like big query, cloud SQL, cloud spanner, or Mongo DB.
For example,
then you can use that for low-latency analytics or all sorts of DB replication
situations,
or you could use the data stream output as the basis for event driven
Architectures. Just think about the possibilities with that.
Being able to extend your legacy systems with cloud-based change,
handling all without having to change them. Anyway,
data stream truly is serverless. No servers in sight,
and you only pay for usage.
$2 per gigabyte of change data captured and 40 cents per gigabyte of backfill
data. Oh, did I not mention that yet? Yeah,
it can also backfill historical data,
not only attract new changes going forward. Nice.
And you also get excellent control over the data scope,
letting you pick and choose at the schema table and column levels.
Even handling future additions explicitly as either default to include or
default to exclude. It seems like they thought of everything.
So that's data stream. Next up, we have dataPlex.
DataPlex is Google's new offering, an intelligent data fabric They call it,
To centrally organize all the data lakes, data warehouses,
and data marts You have spread your enterprise. This lets you manage,
monitor and control them all.
Plus it makes it easier for you to apply artificial intelligence and machine
learning, to extract even more business value from them.
If you see yourself in what I've just described,
you should take a look at the links I've included in the description and sign up
to be included in the preview.
Google has also pre-announced their analytics hub,
a new big query based platform to enable organizations to share their data sets
with other external organizations potentially even monetizing them in the
process. Of course, we'll bring you more details on this in Q3.
When we see something real now let's move on to this month. Quick bites.
All right, first off,
I want to let you know that you can now book your cloud digital leader exam.
Google's entry-level certification is out of beta.
Bookings opened up on June 21st,
but the earliest exam date I've seen offered is June 30th.
If you want more details about this certification,
we'll include a link to our April episode where we cover them. And yes, Jim,
I am still excited about this. Speaking of exciting,
we now get HTTP three support for external HTPs load balancing and
cloud CDN.
Most people use a browser that already supports HTTP three,
and I don't only mean Chrome so they can start benefiting from its lower latency
and higher throughput, pretty much right away.
Newly created load balancers will have this on by default.
And there's a simple option to turn it on for existing ones.
So be quick about it. If you're using Google Kubernetes engine GKE,
you will probably be very happy to hear about Google's new container native
cloud DNS.
I keep telling people that they really don't want to manage their own DNS more
than they have to.
And now you can have Google manage all of this in your clusters,
no more in cluster DNS pods. It integrates with the GCP.
Operation suite, that's stackdriver.
And you get global cross cluster service discovery for GKE
services. If you use the VPC scope mode,
fine-grained access control or FGAC,
for those who like to pronounce the unpronounceable is a valuable tool to
achieve the critical security principle of least privilege. Well,
big query has just made they're already very good FGAC, even better.
In particular,
you can now control security of data in big query at the level of each row.
This in addition to the preexisting control that already had at the levels of
project data set table and even call them very fine.
Indeed. Another big announcement is for big table.
If you have a multi cluster routing across three or more regions,
Google now promises you 99.999% uptime,
multi clusters,
without that much geographic distribution get four nines instead of the five and
single clusters get three nines.
But speaking of five nines of availability, let's talk about cloud spanner.
Now in preview,
you can size spanner instances down to just 10% of their
previous minimum.
$65 per month is a much more reasonable starting point for the many GCP
customers who quote have requested smaller instance sizes to support
development, testing and small production workloads.
Unquote the new minimum still supports a very respectable 1000 queries per
second for reads and 200 per second for writes though.
So this is arguably still overkill for your neighborhood BBQ signup app. Now,
if you're still running your own servers,
you may be interested to know that Google has just released Ubuntu pro images
for Google compute engine GCE.
These will receive bug fixes and security updates for 10 years after their
release date. And the extra license costs are handled by GCE.
So you don't need to worry about any separate subscriptions.
Another announcement for GCE is the new tau VM family coming soon.
These T2 DVMs will use the latest third gen AMD epyc processors and have
full x86 compatibility.
These come in at a very low price for the performance they offer making them
ideal for general purpose scale-out workloads sounds epic. Okay.
Here's the fun thing I get to tell you about Postgres SQL 9.6 is scheduled to be
deprecated this November. No, no, no, no. That's not the fun part now,
although you really should be upgrading well before then. Anyway, right.
Google will actually be supporting PostgreSQL 9.6 on cloud sequel for a.
Full year after that.
But you really should still take the time to upgrade to something newer though.
Like Postgres QL, 10 or 11 or 12 or 13. Yeah.
Version 9.6 is from 2016. Well, all right,
let's keep this wrap-up short and sweet. Don't forget to like and subscribe,
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