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Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series! Check out our top contributors and conversations, the latest news, product updates, upcoming events, and more.
Top five contributors in October
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 October. Please meet our top five contributors:
Plus a special shout out goes to @RC1 for authoring the most solutions in October. Thank you all - keep it up! 😀
Are you ready to become our next top contributor? Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.
Top five conversations in October
Here are our most popular discussions in the Google Cloud Community over the past month:
- Diwali Challenge: Game on!
- New Google Cloud certified digital toolkit for all Google Cloud certified individuals
- Where in my BigQuery sql code do I fix the syntax error?
- BigQuery - scheduled query - Invalid table-valued function EXTERNAL_QUERY
- Property sets are not returning any values
Looking for more topics and discussions? Visit our Google Cloud forums and join the conversation or start something new.
New Learning & Certification Hub newsletter
Learning enthusiasts! We're introducing 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!
How to get those free credits? Complete one of the activities in this newsletter that mentions free credits before 8 AM (Pacific Time) on Monday, Nov. 21st, and you’ll get your code on Tuesday!
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).
Detecting security threats and vulnerabilities with Chronicle
As more and more businesses migrate to the cloud, it’s vital that you take every step possible to protect your organization. Get the latest security insights and best practices from Google Cloud experts and your peers by joining us for a live customer meetup on December 6th at 11AM PT.
For this first meetup, we'll be focusing on detecting security threats and vulnerabilities with Chronicle, Google’s cloud-based security platform. There will also be time for you to ask questions and receive answers live from Googlers and your peers.
Please complete this form to register for the event and ask any questions you have in advance. Once registered, you'll receive a calendar invite via email.
How to simplify day-2 operations
Earlier this month, the Community came together to learn how to overcome the challenges of day-2 operations, including managing configuration drift, service reliability, scaling up, and more.
In case you missed it, check out the session recording here, and stay tuned - a recap post with key takeaways, written Q&A, and supporting resources is coming soon!
Is your cloud architecture ready for the holidays? Learn cloud event management best practices to prepare for peak seasons
Do you have a season or time frame when you expect higher volumes of traffic? Have you needed help planning for these events? Do you have a Google TAM (Technical Account Manager) on your account?
If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, then check out this video from a recent session with Technical Account Manager, Jose Chavez, as he shares preparation, execution, and post-event analysis best practices for successful peak seasons or high traffic events.
Plus, a recap post with key takeaways, written Q&A, and supporting resources is coming soon!
How Equifax simplified their microservices implementation while supporting 2.5B API transactions
Microservices have emerged as the cloud native architectural pattern of choice because of the agility and speed they offer, but they also introduce new complexity.
Check out our latest Community event with Neil Erickson, Vice President, Digital Platforms at Equifax, to learn how Equifax reduces the complexity of their services while increasing service consumption with a combination of service mesh and API management tools.
November 24-25: The best of Next '22
Join us November 24-25 to explore the most valuable sessions for the Asia Pacific region from Google Cloud’s marquee moment of the year, Next ‘22.
Discover the latest product announcements, new ideas and supercharge your skills with insights from leading professionals and real world technology applications.
Accelerate the migration of your workloads to the public cloud
A common perception is that migrating existing workloads to the public cloud—especially those with a lot of data—is complex, time consuming, and risky. But with the right planning, organizations can rapidly establish the right practices to accelerate migrations, lower risk, and succeed in the cloud.
Check out this guide to learn best practices for navigating the four phases of migration:
- Assessment: laying the migration groundwork
- Planning: picking the right migration strategies
- Migrating: moving your workloads to the cloud
- Optimizing: maximizing your workloads after migration
Introducing the new Google Cloud developer subscription
To help you grow and build faster - and take advantage of the 123 product announcements from Next ‘22 - last month we launched the Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription with new Innovators Plus benefits. We’re already hearing rave reviews from subscribers from England to Indonesia, and want to share what others are learning and doing to help inspire your next wave of Google Cloud learning and creativity.
Here's a summary of what the Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription with Innovators Plus benefits includes:
- Access to 700+ hands-on labs, skill badges, and courses
- $500 Google Cloud credits
- A Google Cloud certification exam voucher
- Bonus $500 Google Cloud credits after the first certification earned each year
- Live learning events led by Google Cloud experts
- Quarterly technical briefings hosted by Google Cloud executives
Join us on December 7th for Google Cloud Security Talks
The year’s final Google Cloud Security Talks is designed to give you the assurance you need heading into 2023 that trusting nothing and detecting everything is achievable with modern security operations approaches and actionable threat intelligence at your side.
Hear from the experts and explore how Google’s own security team operates, discover guidance on how to transform your SecOps, learn why Zero Trust should be the foundation for your data protection strategy, and get a personalized look at the latest threat research.
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
