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Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series! Check out our latest news and upcoming events.
In case you missed it: Ask Me Anything about System Design Best Practices
On January 27th, we held the first session in our Architecture Framework Ask Me Anything series, which focused on how to apply the best practices and guidance outlined in the System Design Pillar of the Google Cloud Architecture Framework.
Omkar Suram, Program Lead of the Architecture Framework, led the session by outlining core system design principles, explaining how to apply them using a business example, and then answering questions live at the end.
Thank you to everyone who joined and participated! In case you missed it, here's a recap blog that includes the session recording, written questions and answers, as well as supporting documentation and resources, so you can refer back to them at any time.
AppSheet Office Hours: Platform and Community Updates
In January, we launched a new space dedicated to the AppSheet Community. Whether you're brand new to AppSheet or already an expert, it's our goal to provide a trusted space for you to achieve your goals with AppSheet, Google's no-code app development platform. Check out the AppSheet Community here!
We're also excited to reintroduce a monthly series of AppSheet Office Hours, where you can hear news, updates, and best practices from AppSheet experts, as well as ask any questions you may have.
Our first session was held on February 3rd, where the AppSheet team covered recent product updates and shared an overview of what's to come in 2022. The team also answered several questions that came in from the Community, including questions around licensing options, security and compliance, the status of feature updates, integrations, and more.
A complete recap post (including written Q&A and supporting resources) will be shared with the Community soon, but in the meantime, you can see the recording here.
This Week in Cloud
Stay up-to-date with the latest news in the Cloud with the #ThisWeekInCloud video series.
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January 24, 2022: Learn Cloud for free, 8 industry megatrends, and more with Jenny Brown
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January 31, 2022: BigQuery XAI in GA, Alphafold on Vertex AI, and more with Debi Cabrera
Top five contributors in January
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 January. Please meet our top five contributors:
Thank you @Abhishek213, @Akshat512, @saumya_prasad, @rushiranpise, and @abhilashvarma!
Are you ready to become our next top contributor? Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.
Top three conversations in January
Here are our most popular discussions in the Google Cloud Community over the past month:
- #Learn to Earn Cloud Security Challenge | Additional Challenge & Slots related info
- Learn to Earn Cloud Security Challenge: Day 3
- Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine: Challenge Lab
Learning and certifications were popular this month! especially with the latest Learn to Earn Cloud Security Challenge. Don't miss out on any upcoming challenges - with the opportunity to level-up your skills and earn some swag along the way - by subscribing to the Learning & Certification Hub Forum.
Looking for more topics and discussions? Visit our Google Cloud forums and join the conversation or start something new.
Community feature updates in January
The Community Team continues to work hard to improve the Community based on your valuable feedback. Here are some recent updates to our Community features:
1. We've added a new capability that enables you to customize your Community profile avatar, which appears at the top right of any Community page, on your Community profile, and when you make a post or comment.
Changing your Community profile avatar is an easy way to personalize your Community identity. You can change your avatar directly from your profile page, or from your settings. See the steps to do it in the Accessing and Managing Your Profile article here.
Learn how to change your avatar
Please note that if you already have an image uploaded as your Google Account avatar, any image that you select in the Community will be overwritten by your Google avatar.
2. To help you quickly find what you're looking for, we've updated the top navigation so that the text is smaller and you can also scroll to see options in a drop-down. You can see how the scrolling works in the Cloud Forums drop-down in the image below.
3. The Cloud Hub forum is now at the top of the Cloud Forums list. Since the Cloud Hub is a space for introducing yourself, watercooler discussions, and general cloud topics, we wanted to make it easier to locate and access, especially for newer members to the Community.
All the Cloud Forums specific to different product areas/topics, such as AI/ML, Databases, Security, etc. have not been changed. You can access them from the Google Cloud Community home page, or from the drop-down in the top navigation under "Cloud Forums," as shown in the images below.
We hope you enjoy our new feature updates and 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 here or add a comment directly to this post.
Make sure you don't miss out on the latest Community news, activities, or opportunities by subscribing to News & Announcements. To do so, go to the News & Announcements page and click on the blue button that says "Subscribe." You can also learn more about how to manage your subscriptions and notifications in this blog here.
Thanks everyone. Until next time!
The Google Cloud Community Team
