Four topics that inspired Google Cloud Platform users in October

Google Cloud Platform users are a generous bunch, sharing their insights about how best to use GCP through a regular stream of articles and blogs. We kept tabs on their output in the month of October, then sorted that unruly list down into four categories that are a good indicator of overall cloud adoption. Take a look; chances are that there’s a post in this list that answers your most pressing GCP question, or that will inspire you to take GCP in an entirely new direction.

1. Using BigQuery to analyze . . . everything
   
BigQuery has emerged as a great way to slice and dice data, and the blogosphere is rife with examples that will teach you how (and why).
• Jumping into Big Data using Google BigQuery
• 25 Million Presidential Debate Tweets in Google BigQuery
• Hands on with Google Cloud Platform, TensorFlow & BigQuery — early thoughts


2. A kornukopia of Kubernetes
Developers continue to spill a lot of ink on containers and Kubernetes, our open-source container orchestration platform.
• MLS on Kubernetes Act 1: Automating Infrastructure
• A Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Part I: Top-Line Service Metrics
• Tutorial: Getting Started with Kubernetes on your Windows Laptop with Minikube
• Kubernetes on Scaleway - Part 3
• A Survival Guide for Containerizing your Infrastructure — Part 1: Why switch?
• Using gcloud in a Docker container


3. Working with data (and databases) on GCP
So much data, so many different places to put it. From simple object-based archive, to high-performance distributed databases, the GCP community is using our storage and databases in all sorts of interesting ways.
• Google Cloud Storage Vs AWS S3
• Diving Into Google Datastore
• Picking a cloud database for analytics: the SQL options
• Camera image upload and display using Google Firebase Storage in your Ionic Framework app
• Recommendation Systems with Spark on Google DataProc
• Spinning up a Cassandra Cluster on Google Cloud (for free) with just a browser


4. Next-generation apps, the GCP way
More often than not, today’s developers organize into DevOps teams and build apps using microservices that communicate via APIs. Here are a few examples of how GCP plays in that world.
• Microservices: From Design To Production with goa and Google Cloud Endpoints
• Checking out the new Google Cloud Endpoints
• Playing with ConcourseCI via a Google Cloud Platform free trial
• How We Built Chop
• Microservices: From Design To Production with goa and Google Cloud Endpoints
• #1 Piece of code : ExpressJS + Memcached Sessions
• Adding Custom Domain to your Google Compute Engine
• Tuning NGINX behind Google Cloud Platform HTTP(S) Load Balancer