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Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series! Check out our latest Google Cloud Community news, upcoming events, top contributors, and feature updates.
Join us on August 4th: How to Optimize Cloud Performance AMA
Join us for this month’s Ask Me Anything session, where Google Cloud experts will guide you through Google’s recommended approach to continuous performance optimization, including how to:
- Define performance requirements
- Design and deploy your applications
- Monitor and analyze performance
- Configure cloud resources to meet performance requirements
As always, you’ll also have an opportunity to ask the experts questions and receive answers live.
Save your spot and ask your questions in advance here!
June updates in Learning and Certifications
Learn to Earn Cloud Data Challenge
The Learn to Earn Cloud Data Challenge is underway in the Learning & Certification Hub! Build your Big Data and ML skills with no-cost access to 50+ hands-on labs, plus an opportunity to win, grow your network, and showcase your skills.
Also, a big thank you to everyone who attended the pre-challenge preparation webinar. In case you missed it, you can check out the recording here.
Introducing the Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification
Become one of the first Google Cloud Certified Cloud Database Engineers in the industry by participating in the beta Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification.
Learn more about the certification and how to get started here.
How to get a cloud career from a non-tech background
Want to start a career in cloud? Check out the next episode of the Cracking The Google Cloud Career video series, where we show how you can use your existing skill sets to reach a career in Cloud!
In this episode, @swongra shows how a traditional computer science degree or tech background isn’t necessary for you to break into the cloud industry!
GCP Support Shorts
Created by a team of Google Cloud technical experts, we're excited to share with you GCP Support Shorts, a new playlist featuring quick and practical videos that help you:
- Create, configure, and update Google Cloud resources
- Learn best practices to optimally manage your resources
- Troubleshoot and resolve any issues that you encounter along the way
Check out the full playlist here, with videos on topics such as:
- How to troubleshoot unexpected VM reboots or shutdowns
- How to configure node pool auto-upgrades in GKE
- How to create a GCE VM
- How to import Virtual Machine images to GCE
... and more!
Have a topic the team should cover? Let us know in the comments!
Transform with Google Cloud: Inside the moments when cloud computing changed everything
Digital transformation is what propels businesses and industries forward. Organizations of all sizes—from startups to global enterprises—choose digital transformation to drive significant change to business processes, deliver greater value to customers, and fully embrace the digital age.
But digital transformation isn’t just about using new technology.
To truly transform, businesses also need to tap into people and processes to scale an innovation mindset across the organization.
To support and inspire CIOs and IT Leaders responsible for digital transformation in their organizations, the Google Cloud team has recently launched a new blog: Transform with Google Cloud. Check it out to see articles, videos, and podcasts including:
- Real-world examples of how cloud technologies are transforming the way we live and work
- Inside stories with Cloud customers
- Insights and best practices from transformation leaders
New in the Google Dev Library: Improving observability for data pipelines
This month, we're excited to recognize tech blogger and software engineer, Nancy Chauhan, whose article, "Improve observability using Stackdriver metrics programmatically," has been accepted into Google's Dev Library. Congratulations Nancy!
Check out all the content in the Google Cloud Dev Library here and submit your content/projects at goo.gle/GoogleDevLibrary.
How Google Cloud is helping the data engineer community solve for increasing data complexity
Join the Data Engineer Spotlight on July 20th to connect with your fellow data engineers, learn best practices of Google Cloud’s data analytics tools, play a hands-on Cloud Hero game (with prizes at stake!), and more!
Want to show how proud you are to be in the data cloud community? Reserve your seat now!
Topics include:
- Manage complex SQL workflows in BigQuery using Dataform CLI
- Build unified batch and streaming pipelines on popular ML frameworks
- Data Warehouse migrations to BigQuery made easy with BigQuery Migration Service
- Manage and govern distributed data with Dataplex
Top five contributors in June
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 June. Please meet our top five contributors:
Thank you @Abhishek213, @Richard_Rivero, @MrKrishnaAgarwa, @imharry404, and @smitop!
Plus, a special shoutout this month goes out to @Arnaduga, who earned three accepted solutions this month! Thanks Arnaduga, 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 June
Here are our most popular discussions in the Google Cloud Community over the past month:
- Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Coming Soon!
- Learn to Earn Cloud Data Challenge: Green flag!
- Real Time Machine Learning with Cloud Dataflow and Vertex AI
Looking for more topics and discussions? Visit our Google Cloud forums and join the conversation or start something new.
Community feature updates in June
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.
Notification bell
We are thrilled to announce the immediate availability of the Notification Bell! With the Notification Bell, we hope to provide you with quicker access to your latest notifications without having to go to the notifications page every time.
The Notification Bell can be found directly to the left of your profile picture on the top right corner of the screen. As you navigate through the Community, you’ll be alerted to any new notifications via the red circle and number over the bell icon as shown in the image below.
For more details on the Notification Bell, please review the announcement post.
New gallery view for the Google Cloud and Architecture Framework Community blogs
We've updated the format of the Google Cloud and Architecture Framework Community blogs so you can see up to nine articles on a page in a gallery view, whereas previously you could only see three articles until you had to click to load the next page.
Have a topic you want our experts to cover in a Community blog? Let us know in the comments!
Help text for preference options
Within “My Settings>Preferences>Preference Options,” added a hover over icon that provides help text to explain the impact of enabling or adjusting the various options.
Solution accepted notifications
When there were multiple replies on a topic and only one was marked as a solution, each user that had a reply was getting a notification that their reply was marked as a solution. This has been fixed so only the person who commented with the accepted solution receives that notification.
For more information, see the June Release Notes post here.
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
