Google Cloud Community Roundup: July 2023

Lauren_vdv
Community Manager
Community Manager

Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series! Discover our top contributors and conversations, explore new learning and certification opportunities, and more in our July roundup.

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Top Google Cloud Community contributors in July

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 July. 

Cloud Forums top contributors

  1. @sysph 
  2. @API-Evangelist 
  3. @NoCommandLine 
  4. @VishalBulbule 
  5. @xavidop 

Learning Forums top contributors

  1. @Abhishek213 
  2. @Abhishek_123 
  3. @Sandeep_google 
  4. @Divyanshu_81 
  5. @benvic 

🌟 Honorable mentions and shoutouts 🌟

@Abhishek_123 has facilitated over 2,800 students to support them on their cloud learning journey through the Google Cloud Arcade Facilitator Program. Wow! Amazing job!

@ms4446 thank you for going the extra mile to help answer questions in the Data Analytics and Databases forums. Your dedication to getting to a solution and helping others is inspiring - thank you! 

@vsy - your reply to solution accepted rate is 100% (3 for 3)! Thanks for your help in the Integration Services forum

Thanks @Alex_S for your contributions to the Infrastructure forum. After only recently joining, you’ve already received an accepted solution! 

Also thank you to @michael_li for your support in the Infrastructure forum. Great job - keep it up!

@ManjuMJ - thank you for contributing helpful cloud logging resources including How to create log-based alerts for monitoring persistent disk utilization and Root User Login Alerting in GCP

@RakeshTalanki thank you for adding relevant and practical resources to our Community Knowledge Base, including your article on AI Healthcare Chatbots Using GCP's Med-Palm, Apigee, and Dialogflow

Big thanks to @loadedmind for answering your first question in the Infrastructure forum. Looking forward to many more! 🙂


Thank you all - keep it up! 😀 Also, did you know? 🤔 You can check out the leaderboards for top solution authors here and kudos (likes) received here

Are you ready to become our next top contributor? Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.

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Google Cloud Next ‘23: Your guide to learning, connecting, and finding your community

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Google Cloud Next ’23 is almost here! Whether or not you’ve been to Google Cloud Next before, every year is new and we want to make sure your experience is as great as it can be.

That’s why we’ve put together this guide with a shortlist of ways to learn, connect, and find your community at Next ‘23. We can't wait to see you there! 

Congratulations to the Solution Challenge Demo Day winners and finalists

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Every year, university students who are members of Google Developer Student Clubs around the world are invited to create innovative solutions for real-world problems as part of the Solution Challenge

Participating students use Google products to build solutions for one or more of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which promote employment for all, economic growth, and climate action, to name a few.

Congratulations to the winners, finalists, and participants! Learn more about their innovations here.

Champion Innovator Spotlight

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Google Cloud Champion Innovators are a global network of more than 500 non-Google professionals, who are technical experts in Google Cloud products and services.

In our ongoing interview series, we sit down with Champion Innovators across the world to learn more about their journeys, their technology focus, and what excites them. This month, we’re excited to share our conversation with David Cardoza, a Machine Learning Scientist, Kubeflow Community member and ML GDE.

Learn more about David (@davidnet), including his recommendations for learning new technologies and the exciting projects he has in the works here

Google Cloud tips, tricks, and resources

Discover recent tips, tricks, and resources from around the Google Cloud ecosystem. Thank you to the contributors! 

Have a helpful resource to share? Please let us know in the comments!  

  • [Event] Conversational AI: How to create virtual assistants using Dialogflow CX with @xavidop and @koverholt
  • [Blog] Summarize Audio Like a Maestro with Langchain, Chirp, and PaLM2 on Vertex AI by @ilnardo92 
  • [Blog] Deploying a Google Cloud Generative AI App in a Website with Cloud Run by @rubenszmm 
  • [Blog] A Comprehensive Guide about Google Cloud Generative AI Studio by @rubenszmm 
  • [BlogSeven Key Configs to Look at for a Secure AI Foundation by Don Santos
  • [Blog Series] Hidden Gems of BigQuery by @an2
  • [Event] How Marsh McLennan streamlined API operations across a global, hybrid cloud environment with @sudheerg 
  • [Event] Learn how to deep dive into your logs using SQL with @Afrina and @summitt 
  • [Blog & Infographic] Navigating Google Cloud: a decision tree for data & analytics workloads by @pvergadia 
  • [Blog] Cloud Run / GKE & Istio: network latency comparison by @guillaume_blaqu 

Upcoming Google Cloud events

Find an in-person event near you

C2C

C2C is a peer-to-peer community built to engage, support, connect, and educate the Google Cloud customer ecosystem across regions and industries so they can harness the power of cloud and each other to solve their biggest challenges and drive innovation. Discover some of the upcoming events below in a location near you and see them all here

Google Developer Groups

Google Developer Groups (GDGs) are community-led meetups where developers and cloud practitioners around the world can connect, learn, and grow together in their local communities. 

See a sample of some upcoming GDG events below and explore them all here.

Join the global community online

Connect and grow your knowledge with the global community by joining one of our upcoming digital events. See what’s coming up next and sign up below!

Updates in Google Cloud learning, training, and certifications 

Generative AI learning courses and badges to demonstrate your skills

Ready to start transforming content creation and discovery, research, customer service, and developer efficiency? Here are four GenerativeAI courses you should take right now:

  1. Introduction to Generative AI: Learn what generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods.
  2. Introduction to Large Language Models: Explore what large language models (LLMs) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance.
  3. Transformer Models and BERT Model: Get an introduction to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. Learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model.
  4. Introduction to Image Generation: Learn more about the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.

Learning Google Cloud for AWS and Azure professionals

With the increase in multicloud architectures and agile environments, coupled with the growing cloud skills gap, Google Cloud Learning has released new on-demand learning content and skills badges that support the AWS and Azure professional’s path to translating their knowledge and skills to Google Cloud. Get started today:

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We recently had the opportunity to hear from Google Cloud's Infrastructure Modernization Learning Portfolio Manager, Anne Henmi (@ahenmi) and multicloud practitioners, @MarkJohnson, and Manjeet Dadyala, during a live discussion and Q&A. 

They shared their perspective on the benefits of being multicloud certified and their recommendations for expanding your cloud resume with multicloud skills and certifications.  

Check out the recording here.

Play the Google Cloud Arcade

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Game on! Head to The Arcade to participate in games that feature hands-on learning labs. Complete labs and you’ll earn digital badges. These badges award you points that you can use to redeem great Google Cloud swag from the prize counter, including backpacks, t-shirts, mugs, and more. You can even choose charitable donations.

Congratulations to recent Google Cloud Certification achievers 

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Congratulations to these Community members who recently earned a Google Cloud Certification! 🎉  Thank you for sharing your success and lessons learned preparing for the exams in the Learning & Certification Hub

Multiple Google Cloud Certification earners

@VishalBulbule Wow! 😲 Congratulations on earning 11 certifications

Also with 11 certifications - incredible work @CloudEngineer22 ! 

@narensharma congratulations on earning 3 certifications in a week

Professional Data Engineer Certification

Way to go! @ikgonzal@gopipilli10@ktzouvara@ali_hamza@Mausami@loredanalenti@Mausami@jay_zilpilwar 

Professional Cloud Architect Certification

Congratulations! @Sandeep_google@Barnendra@gopipilli10@KelvinSC@DanielDG@YaseenMohammed@Sathyanarayana@Luka-Devic@saviopoulose@gbalagumpi@tisho 

Professional Machine Learning Engineer Certification

Nice work! @jingqiang@Rijoy02@franuzzo@erenkiliclar@Ragav-Murthy 

Associate Cloud Engineer Certification

Amazing job! @moseti@CarlosMarioMora@DavidSol@BalaT@siri_lalitha@Jaya2601@Viacheslav@fatiiates@rasbell@Murugaanandh 


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

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Wow, thank you so much for the valuable information in this post!

I'm super happy to have learned about the C2C community, and even more excited to be able to attend the 2Gather event in Paris.

I just have one question: will the event be held in English or French?

Thanks in advance!

Marco Delgado 🫱🏼‍🫲🏼

Great to hear @marcodelmart! And the event will be held in French 👍 (just with the exception of Thomas Kurian's keynote). 

Thank you very much for the shoutout, @Lauren_vdv!
Now I am going for the Professional one!

Nice! Best of luck @DavidSol

This guide might be helpful as you prepare 👍

Wow! thanks for the mention @Lauren_vdv. It's been 8 months since I started my journey on GCP, and I have to say: it's been one amazing ride. Looking to dive deeper into this rich platform and grow as a data professional. 

Love to hear it @ali_hamza and congratulations on your certification! Are there any other certifications or skill badges you plan on going for next?

Yeah, certainly! 
Learning more about Cost optimization and cloud monitoring is top of the 'to-do' list right now. So, there's a couple of quests I have in mind. Or maybe, I will go for another Dataflow focused course/quest on Skills Boost; it's always worthwhile.