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Hello Google Cloud Community and happy New Year! Let’s take a look back at not just what happened in the past month, but everything we've accomplished together in 2023.
We're featuring top contributors, the most active conversations, popular events, and more. Let's dive in!
Google Cloud Community 2023 stats at-a-glance
- 😀 The Google Cloud Community welcomed 63,173 new members!
- 👨💻 There were 4.2 million visits to the Community
- ✍️ Members contributed 48,478 posts and gave 16,661 kudos
Top contributors
The Community would not be what it is without our invaluable members. We appreciate each and every person who visits and contributes - making it a friendly, helpful, and rewarding place to be.
Below are a few shoutouts to folks who go above and beyond. Share your appreciation with a comment below!
Cloud Forums
✅ Solution authors: @xavidop @NoCommandLine @DamianS @dheerajpanyam @VishalBulbule
👍 Kudos (likes) received: @xavidop @dheerajpanyam @VishalBulbule @gradientopt @NoCommandLine
👨💻 Visits: @jedihomer @NoCommandLine @API-Evangelist @aramkrishna6 @safiyullah
👍 Kudos (likes) given: @pfilourenco @MaxImbrox @davidregalado25 @hachi0010 @rinus277
🌟 Honorable mentions and shoutouts 🌟
@devenes - As a Google Developer Expert, Champion Innovator, and GDG speaker (wow!) we are thankful to have you as a part of our community, as you've quickly made a positive impact sharing your expertise and providing solutions. Thank you!
@VishalBulbule - We are continuously impressed with the content you create and share with the community (have you all seen the Getting started with Duet AI playlist?), in addition to being in the top 5 overall in 2023 for authored solutions and likes received. Amazing! Oh and we haven't even mentioned that you're a Champion Innovator with 11! Google Cloud Certifications. Thank you for all you do!
@MaxImbrox - Beyond being an Innovator and achieving an impressive resume of certifications (which are incredible!) we want to thank you for overall being such a positive influence and presence in the community. We notice you take the additional steps to thank someone, share your thoughts, or help point someone in the right direction. Thank you!
Thank you to all our Google Cloud Innovators, Innovators Plus members, and Champion Innovators! In 2023, we strengthened the partnership between the Google Cloud Community and the Innovators program, and we've loved to see how the community has grown and evolved since then. Thank you for being leaders in the community - in the forums, during events, and everywhere in between. If the Innovators program is new to you, learn more and join today!
Learning & Certification Hub
✅ Solution authors: @Abhishek213 @Savvy @SGCODEX @Viacheslav @agi83
👍 Kudos (likes) received: @Abhishek213@Anudhyan@Dwaipayan001@SilverMx@SGCODEX
👨💻 Visits: @Paul321 @MikaCloud @Babar_Ali @Viacheslav @edchuy
👍 Kudos (likes) given: @KhushalParmar @z3n @davidregalado25 @SilverMx @sudheerns
Googlers
Here our top contributing Googlers! This is not including Community Managers (more on those folks is further below🙂).
✅ Solution authors: @ms4446 @dchiesa1 @kolban @christianpaula @dknezic
👍 Kudos (likes) received: @ms4446 @dchiesa1 @lawrencenelson @christianpaula @Marvin_Lucero
👨💻 Visits: @ms4446 @Marvin_Lucero @christianpaula @robertcarlos @Marramirez
👍 Kudos (likes) given: @dchiesa1 @kumards @kolban @christianpaula @shaaland
🌟 Honorable mentions and shoutouts 🌟
Thank you to the incredible Googlers who help lead the Google Cloud Innovators and Google Developer Groups programs. You are indispensable partners and your dedication to helping our customers succeed does not go unnoticed. Thank you thank you for your collaboration and all you do!
@cpercy @CrystalSmith @nmchugh @JustinH @Sukritik @mccormickh @rmandel
Google Cloud Community Conversations
In 2023, there were 48,478 posts published to the Google Cloud Community (nearly 2x as many as last year!). Wow! Let's break down what these were all about and highlight some of the most popular topics.
The most popular Cloud Forum by page views in 2023 was Apigee, followed by Infrastructure: Compute, Storage, Networking, AI/ML, Cloud Hub, Data Analytics, and Integration Services.
Breaking it down even further, here's a word cloud with some of the most popular topics from the Cloud Forums. The size of the word indicates how often it was discussed.
Google Cloud Community Events
We held 70 Google Cloud Community events in 2023 (3.5x as many as last year!) on topics ranging from Generative AI and Data Analytics to FinOps, Security, and many more in between (see all our previous and upcoming events here).
Our most viewed events in 2023 were as follows:
- Getting started with Looker: From database to dashboard - Thank you @paigesheridan, @Alix_Burns, and @sami_rubenfeld!
- Guide to preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification (check out the accompanying blog post here) - Thank you @carrie and @afleisc!
- Conversational AI: How to create virtual assistants using Dialogflow CX - Thank you @xavidop and @koverholt!
- Build conversational AI experiences powered by LLMs with Vertex AI Conversation and Dialogflow CX Thank you @xavidop and @alessiasacchi!
- Build a data-driven culture with Google Sheets and Looker Thank you @Maire_Newton and Sneha Popley!
🌟 Honorable mentions and shoutouts 🌟
Thank you @keelinmc for sharing your generative AI knowledge with the Google Cloud Community, leading and facilitating a number of digital events, including Building transformative applications with Gemini with @crispinvv and Getting started with Model Garden on Vertex AI with Murari Ramuka. You're amazing, thank you for all you do Keelin!
Thank you @VarunKrovvidi @pramodvallanur @duncanchris @AustinGM and Michael Vakoc for helping users succeed with our Apigee API management and Application Integration solutions. From digital events to enablement resources and best practices, thank you for all you do!
Thank you @alessiasacchi @koverholt and @xavidop for sharing your Conversational AI expertise with the Google Cloud Community - delivering two of our most dynamic sessions to-date and consistently providing helpful answers and tips for users in the AI/ML forum. Thank you thank you!
Thank you @ilnardo92 for leading the community with your expertise in AI, MLOps, and Smart Analytics, including the latest session with our friends at Datatonic: MLOps in action: Operationalize your ML workflow using pipeline templates. You're always on top of the latest updates and best practices - thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with the community!
Is there a topic you want us to cover next? Please let us know by leaving a comment below. We'd love to hear from you!
Google Cloud Community Blogs
We published 59 Google Cloud Community blogs in 2023 (4x as many as last year!), including best practices, certification guides, tutorials, and much more (see all our blogs here).
Our most viewed blogs in 2023 were as follows:
- Your guide to preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification Thank you @afleisc!
- Building event-driven architectures on Google Cloud Thank you Prasanna Keny!
- Introduction to Terraform on Google Cloud: Solutions, benefits, resources, and FAQs Thank you Rosemary Wang, Ray Ploski, Arslan Saeed, @RoseyK4 and the HashiCorp team!
- Initialize a secondary SAP HANA site without full initial load using Google Cloud Storage snapshots Thank you @ankitarora04 and @ghanshyampatel!
- Unlocking the Power of Gen AI: A Guide to Automating Information Extraction with Vertex AI Thank you @umangak!
🌟 Honorable mentions and shoutouts 🌟
Thank you @bhardwaju @shivankawasthi @amitdutta for delivering a series of step-by-step how-to blogs focused on mobile app development using Flutter. Not only this, but you also provided live demos and answered numerous questions during live events: Creating beautiful mobile applications using Flutter and Firebase and Unlocking visual intelligence: A Google Cloud showcase of Vision AI. Thank you for going above and beyond to deliver helpful resources for our users 🙌
Is there a topic you want us to cover next? Please let us know by leaving a comment below. We'd love to hear from you!
Thank you from the Google Cloud Community team
On behalf of the Google Cloud Community team, thank you to everyone who has made the Community such a rewarding place to be - members, visitors, customers, partners, Googlers... thank you all.
And we can't forget our Community Managers. Thank you @kogcc @AndrewB @Willie_Turney @shanefeely @Roderick @carrie @Yugali @Michelle @kasey 🎉
We couldn't do it without you!
We're looking forward to even more to come for the Google Cloud Community in 2024, including new ways for members to get involved, improved user experiences, more live events and how-to blogs, and much more.
Have ideas or feedback? Please let us know in the comments or by creating a post in the feedback forum. We'd love to hear from you.
Thank you and happy new year!
