In Focus This Week: The Arcade Base Camp!

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Welcome to the latest in The Arcade—In Focus this week, where we will feature different levels, challenges, and games in The Arcade that you can take on to build your Cloud Skills and earn Arcade Points!

This week, we have our eyes on the Arcade Base Camp!

Consider it as your first challenge when you enter The Arcade. Whether you are new to cloud or a pro in The Arcade, the Arcade Base Camp will help you pick up essential cloud skills and refresh your basics at the same time.

What’s more? You can earn 1 Arcade Point once you clear the Base Camp.

The Arcade Base Camp is also available in Spanish and Portuguese (BR) and here’s what is has to offer you this month:

• Working with JSON, Arrays, and Structs in BigQuery: Learn how to work with JSON data, arrays, and structs in BigQuery to improve your data analysis.
• Autoscaling an Instance Group with Custom Cloud Monitoring Metrics: Understand how to use custom metrics in Cloud Monitoring to automatically scale your compute resources based on performance.
• Monitoring Multiple Projects with Cloud Monitoring: Learn how to manage and monitor multiple Google Cloud projects from a single place, giving you a clear view of your infrastructure’s status.
• Creating and Alerting on Logs-based Metrics: Find out how to create logs-based metrics and set up alerts to keep track of important events in your cloud environment.
• Running a MongoDB Database in Kubernetes with StatefulSets: See how to deploy MongoDB databases in Kubernetes using StatefulSets to ensure reliable data management for your applications.
• Troubleshooting and Solving Data Join Pitfalls: Get practical tips on how to avoid and fix common issues when joining data from different sources to ensure accurate results.
• Web Security Scanner: Qwik Start: Get started with securing your web applications using the Web Security Scanner to identify and fix vulnerabilities.
• Speech-to-Text API: Qwik Start: Learn how to quickly add speech recognition capabilities to your applications using Google Cloud’s Speech-to-Text API.
• Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: Qwik Start: Discover the basics of setting up and managing a PostgreSQL database in Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s managed relational database service.
• Using Custom Fields in Looker Explores: Explore how to create and use custom fields in Looker for more tailored data analysis.
• Understanding and Analyzing Your Costs with Google Cloud Billing Reports: Learn how to monitor and analyze your cloud spending with Google Cloud Billing Reports to keep your projects on budget.

If you haven’t completed it yet, now’s the perfect time to jump in and get started. The adventure awaits—grab your 🎮 and take on the challenge!

See you in the Cloud!