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Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series! Check out our latest news and upcoming events, along with new Community feature updates.
Managing capacity, quota, and stockouts in the cloud: Concepts and tips
Have you heard of the phrase, "a failure to plan is a plan to fail?" Well, this is very much the case when it comes to managing capacity in the cloud at scale.
In our latest Community event, Technical Account Manager, Stephen Tolan (stolan) shared key concepts and best practices to effectively plan for and manage capacity, quotas, and stockouts in the cloud to avoid disruptions to your business.
In this article, we share key takeaways from the presentation, the session recording, written questions and answers, and supporting resources so you can refer back to them at any time.
September 22: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Fundamentals
Join us on September 22nd to learn the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices that enable your systems to be more scalable, reliable, and efficient.
Technical Account Manager, Pamella Canova (pamcanova) will lead the session, including:
- The core problems SRE solves and organizational structures to facilitate the practice of SRE
- Key principles SREs use to keep systems reliable
- Areas of responsibility and expertise amongst SREs
- How to adopt SRE best practices in your organization
Want this session in Portuguese? Join us on September 20th!
August updates in Learning and Certifications
GO! A startup and growth mindset challenge
We’re kicking off a 2-round startup-focused challenge, during which we’ll dive deep into startup-friendly tech to turn challenges into opportunities. Whether you’re bootstrapping a startup or your personal career, come exercise your growth mindset muscles! Learn more and get started here.
Four non-traditional paths to a cloud career (and how to navigate them)
We get it - it can be intimidating looking at experienced engineers, developers, and other cloud professionals ahead of you and wonder, "How will I ever get to where I am to where they are?" This is the question we set out to address in the Cracking the Google Cloud Career video series, tackling four non-traditional paths to a cloud career (and how to navigate them):
- How do I go from a traditional IT background to a cloud job?
- How do I move from a help desk job to a cloud job?
- How do I switch from a non-technical career to the cloud?
- How do I get a job in the cloud without a computer-related college degree?
Nominate an Apigee Community evangelist
Nominations are open for expert Apigee Community evangelists as part of the September 2022 nomination cycle!
This is your opportunity to recommend passionate Apigee experts (maybe you!) that love engaging with the community by producing educational content (e.g. blogs, videos, and podcasts), event sessions and workshops, open source projects, and social media. Apigee Community evangelists will have the opportunity to contribute to Google Cloud-led activities (e.g. blog posts, podcasts, online events), participate in AMAs, learn the latest from Google Cloud Developer Advocates and Google executives, and more.
If you think that you or someone you know is the right fit, please complete this nomination form by 5:00PM PST, 16 September 2022 for entry into the September Nomination Cycle!
Are you prepared for peak traffic and launch events?
Whether it’s a product launch, new store opening, limited-time sale, or holiday, peak traffic events are critical for your business.
Don’t just hope that they’ll run smoothly! Check out our latest Ask Me Anything session to learn how to successfully plan for peak traffic and launch events to avoid any disruptions for your customers and your business.
Dataflow observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting
Observability is a key area where the Dataflow team continues to invest more based on customer feedback. Adequate visibility into the state and performance of Dataflow jobs is essential for business critical production pipelines.
To learn more about Dataflow's observability capabilities and how to make the most of them, see the video below. Pro tip: Use the chapter links in the YouTube description to quickly navigate to the topics that you care about most.
Prefer the written word? ✏️🙂 See the blog from Product Manager, Ashwin Kamath (@ashwinkg) : Pro tools for Pros: Industry leading observability capabilities for Dataflow.
Cloud Wisdom Weekly: A new content series for tech companies and startups
Cloud Wisdom Weekly is a new blog series we’re running to help answer common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. See the first two articles below!
6 tips to optimize data management and analytics
In this article, Big Data & Analytics Cloud Consultant, Julianne Cuneo (@jcuneo), shares six ways to set up a strong, scalable data management and analytics foundation, including specific examples of how to optimize a data platform architecture with BigQuery. Here's a teaser:
- Independently scale storage and compute
- Carefully organize storage and datasets
- Optimize compute cost and performance across teams and use cases
- Load and optimize your data schemas
- Unify your data investments
- Run queries and have fun!
5 ways to reduce costs with containers
In this article, Serverless Product Manager, Rachel Tsao (rachelt1), shares five ways to control compute costs with containers. Here's a teaser:
- Identify opportunities to reduce cluster administration
- Consider serverless to maximize developer productivity
- Save with committed use discounts
- Leverage cost management features
- Match workload needs to pricing models
Don't miss Next '22! October 11-13
Tomorrow starts today. Join us live online along with one million builders, dreamers, and leaders for Google Cloud Next '22 where we can learn and grow together to meet tomorrow head on.
Register now for online programming and the opportunity to attend in-person events - all registration is complimentary! Plus, stay tuned for future announcements including product-specific sessions, speakers, and engagement opportunities.
Top five contributors in August
We love to see how many of you are eager to participate in the Community's discussions. Let’s take a quick look at who contributed the most by replies authored and topics published in the month of August. Please meet our top five contributors:
Thank you @Abhishek213, @Bholoubi, @SidVjSingh, @SebastianG, and @fuchengyen!
Plus, a special shoutout this month goes out to @Arnaduga, @djs_75, and @cholaterahul who each earned 2 accepted solutions this month! Thank you, keep it up! 😀
Are you ready to become our next top contributor? Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.
Top three conversations in August
Here are our most popular discussions in the Google Cloud Community over the past month:
- Study Buddies: Start here!
- New Challenge: Show of your cloud skills by completing the #GoogleClout weekly challenge
- BigQuery Subscription Error Incompatible schema type DOUBLE vs. FLOAT
Looking for more topics and discussions? Visit our Google Cloud forums and join the conversation or start something new.
Community feature updates in August
The Community team continues to work hard to improve the Community based on your valuable feedback. Below is an overview of the recent updates to our Community features. Let us know what you think of these updates with a comment below! We’d love to hear from you.
Public Sector Connect is now part of the Google Cloud Community
This month, Public Sector Connect (PSC) joined the Google Cloud Community! Public Sector Connect is for anyone within the public sector interested in learning about - and applying - Google Cloud and Workspace to support their work.
If you have a .gov, .edu or .org email, we hope you’ll register for Public Sector Connect to explore how to apply Workspace solutions to create repeatable solutions to public sector challenges. Participate in:
- Regular events, including Friday Coffee Hours, where members join via Meet to learn about how others have used Cloud products to better drive mission-related outcomes
- Community-sourced resources, tips, and knowledge-sharing
- Member discussions with Q&A amongst peers and Googlers
Thank you to all our Community members who continue to make this space an engaging and informative place to be. If you have any feedback, please feel free to add your thoughts to the Community Feedback forum or add a comment directly to this post.
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Thanks everyone. Until next time!
The Google Cloud Community Team
