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Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series! Check out new Community feature updates, top contributors and conversations, learning and certification opportunities, customer award winners, and more in our November roundup.
- Top contributors in November
- Top conversations in November
- Community feature updates
- Get your questions answered: Managing the chaos of API sprawl with API Management
- Updates in Learning & Certifications
- Create beautiful mobile apps using Flutter and Firebase
- Data analytics innovation: Unlocking the value of information to better serve customers
- Simplify your cloud operations
Top contributors in November
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 November.
Cloud Forums top contributors
Learning Forums top contributors
Thank you all - keep it up! 😀 Also, did you know? 🤔 You can check out the leaderboards for top solution authors and
Are you ready to become our next top contributor? Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.
Top conversations in November
Here are our most popular discussions in the Google Cloud Community over the past month:
- No-code November Challenge: Game on!
- New Google Cloud certified digital toolkit for all Google Cloud certified individuals
- Shortage of Compute Engine Resource in us-central-1
- Tea break: Learning Style
- OR-CBAT-15 ERROR Google cloud free trial account
Looking for more topics and discussions? Visit our Google Cloud forums and join the conversation or start something new.
Community feature updates
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.
Forum activity feed view
We updated the forum activity feed view - condensing the space between each post and reducing font sizes - to help increase the number of posts you're able to see at once without needing to scroll or click to the next page.
Latest poster avatar
On the forum activity feed, you can now see the avatar of the latest poster within that post thread. You can also hover over the avatar to see the username of the most recent poster.
Sorted by options
We've added a new option on the forum activity feed to sort by unanswered topics. So if you're looking to help other Community members and provide a response to a question (and make it to the top of the leaderboard!), you can quickly use this new sort-by feature to identify forum posts that have not yet received an answer.
Get your questions answered: Managing the chaos of API sprawl with API Management
What really are the differences between API Gateways and API Management? And if I’ve followed proper API-first principles, do I really need the additional management layer?
Find out the answers to these questions and more by joining us on January 10th for our next Ask Me Anything session. You will:
- Learn the core principles of API management
- See how to overcome API management challenges
- Get your questions answered from experts live
Updates in Learning & Certifications
Guide to preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Certification
As cloud adoption continues to grow, so does the need for skilled professionals who can help organizations take advantage of what the cloud has to offer.
By earning the Professional Cloud Architect certification, you can demonstrate your skills and distinguish yourself among your peers. Learn how to prepare for and pass the exam with our new Guide to preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Certification.
Have questions along the way? Tap into the Learning & Certification community forums by searching for an answer or posting a new question.
Subscribe to the new Learning & Certification Hub Newsletter
Learning enthusiasts! We recently introduced the new quarterly Learning Hub Newsletter to keep you up-to-date on everything happening with Google Cloud learning, training, and certifications. And yes, that includes our community challenges - in fact, you’ll see several opportunities in this newsletter to get free credits for Skills Boost!
Two easy ways to get free credits:
- We’d love to get your feedback about the newsletter. Just complete this form when you’ve finished perusing. Happy reading!
- You can also get free credits (and be the first in the know) by subscribing to this newsletter. To subscribe to this newsletter, click on the label “Learning Hub News.” Then click on “Subscribe to this label.” You can always manage your notifications and email subscriptions later on from your Community Settings (for more info on managing your notifications and subscriptions, click here).
Are you Cloud Digital Leader certified? Share your experience with us!
The Certification team would love your insights on your Cloud Digital Leader Certification experience. If you'd like to provide feedback, you may do so anonymously through this (short) questionnaire. There's an option to provide your email address if you'd like to be contacted to provide further feedback, but if you'd prefer to stay incognito that's a-ok too 🙂
Redeem your Arcade prize points for swag!
Get ready! On December 26th, the Arcade prize counter will open, where you can redeem your Arcade points for swag.
12 ways of learning with Google Cloud - at no cost
The holiday season is upon us! If you're making your list and checking it twice, we've got a few learning gifts you can tick off the list and share with others too. For the season of giving, we've wrapped up some of our most popular training and certification opportunities and made them available at no-cost.
Create beautiful mobile apps using Flutter and Firebase
Learn from Shivank Awasthi, Strategic Cloud Engineer, and Utkarsh Bhardwaj, Cloud Migration Consultant, how to create beautiful mobile applications using Flutter and Firebase, including step-by-step instructions and a practical use
Data analytics innovation: Unlocking the value of information to better serve customers
Our second annual Google Cloud Customer Awards celebrate organizations around the world that adapt to the demands of today and tomorrow—turning innovative ideas into exciting realities.
This month we’re shining the spotlight on award winners using smart analytics to better serve the needs of their organization and their customers. Get a glimpse into their inspiring stories below and see the full stories here!
TELUS is transforming the customer service model by using Contact Center AI Insights, Dialogflow, and BigQuery to capture sentiment, highlights, and call intent accurately. TELUS is now able to meet their customers exactly where they are and improve the overall customer experience.
“We have some of the largest datasets in the world. By strengthening our approach to management through cloud, we can enable our world-class data analytics professionals to unlock the value of information to devise more effective strategies to serve customers.” Monty Hamilton, Chief Digital Officer, TELUS
Compass IoT works with local governments in Australia to improve the safety of their roads. With the computing and data processing power of Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Run, Compass IoT is able to process 1.5M+ datasets daily from vehicles to provide states, territories, and the federal government with actionable insights on road conditions and safety.
Crux helps organization unlock insights and real value from data. After growing tenfold in two years, Crux looked to BigQuery to delivery faster load times, live data ingestion and streaming options, and cross-region replication without any additional costs to make global hosting of datasets a powerful value add for Crux customers.
We want to recognize your organization for its innovation and transformation with Google Cloud! Learn more about how to get started in the Customer Awards Guide and the Partner Awards Guide.
Simplify your cloud operations
Congratulations! You've deployed your app, set up your Kubernetes cluster, or launched a new service. But now come the challenges of day 2 operations - managing configuration drift, service reliability, scaling up, and more.
Learn from Google Cloud experts, Omkar Suram (@omkarsuram_) and Rakesh Dhoopar, the key principles and best practices to reduce the complexity of cloud operations, including how to use Google Cloud products and new features in the operational tools portfolio.
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
