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AI for the Global Goals - Flood Forecasting

Since 2018, the Flood Forecasting team at Google Research has been working to apply advanced machine learning methods to a broad range of data sets, such as satellite imagery, river data, and weather data. These data sets help to generate high-quality flood forecasts that predict when rivers will overflow and the exact locations where flooding will take place.The system currently covers an area populated by more than 370 million people across several countries in South East Asia and Latin America. In 2021 the Flood Forecasting system reached 23 million people with more than 115 million notifications based on user location and flood maps. Flood Forecasting and alerting plans to expand globally in the near future to ensure everyone around the world can benefit from these early warnings.If you have five minutes and want to know how this works then watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz0ikfuE_z0 Background to this post:In 2015, the UN set the Sustainable Development Goals, am

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in Application Development

From a virtual machine database to Firestore

Martin and Veer moved a to-do app from a virtual machine to Cloud Run. However, the database is still running on the virtual machine. Watch along and learn how to move a database from a virtual machine to a low-ops, serverless database like Firestore.Click on the video below to watch it in detail: Chapters:0:00 - Intro2:34 - Export from MongoDB3:23 - Transform the data4:24 - Configure Firestore5:00 - Import the data into Firestore7:35 - Update the application9:14 - Deploy and test the application9:45 - Wrap up Extra Credit:How to deploy an existing web app on Cloud Run → https://goo.gle/3S5mNZz Migrating Collections from MongoDB to Cloud Firestore → https://goo.gle/3xie4vq MongoDB version → https://goo.gle/3U5Rb7Y Finished code → https://goo.gle/3xKAfKQ

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in Application Development

Using Cloud Run with Compute Engine VMs

You’ve spent tons of time creating your virtual machine, and now you’re being asked to install something that may cause issues and make your life harder. Have you considered running it in an ephemeral Cloud Run instance instead? In this video, Brian and Katie discuss different patterns for using Compute Engine VMs and Cloud Run together! Watch along and learn how to combine them or decide between them.Click on video below to watch it in detail: Chapters:0:00 - Intro0:41 - What is Cloud Run?2:18 - How does Cloud Run work with VMs?3:45 - What are containers?5:15 - What is Migrate to Containers?6:33 - What workloads are a good fit for Cloud Run?7:56 - When should Cloud Run be used with VMs?11:14 - How to get started with Cloud Run12:15 - Wrap upExtra Credit:Richard Seroter's Demo → https://goo.gle/3SjSD5b Getting Started With Cloud Run, with language microservices: → https://goo.gle/3Um1kxr Getting Started With Cloud Functions → https://goo.gle/3Ls94da Google Cloud Buildpacks: → https://

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in AI and Machine Learning

Building a Machine Learning Platform with Kubeflow and Ray on Google Kubernetes Engine

First trying ML in the cloud, many practitioners will start with fully managed ML platforms like Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Fully-managed platforms abstract out many complexities to simplify the end-to-end workflow. However, like with most decisions, there are tradeoffs. Organizations may choose to build their own custom, self-managed ML platform for various reasons such as control and flexibility. Building your own platform gives you more control over your resources. You can implement unique resource utilization constraints, access permissions, and infrastructure strategies that fit your organization’s specific needs. You also get more flexibility over tools and frameworks. Since the system is completely open, you can integrate any ML tools that you already are using. And lastly, these benefits help avoid vendor lock-in because cloud-native platforms are by definition portable across cloud providers.Richard Liu, Senior Software Engineer, Google Kubernetes Engine and Winston Chiang, Pro

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in Identity and Security

Best Practices for Using And Managing Service Accounts

Are you unsure when to use service accounts? Not sure how to grant applications access to Google Cloud Resources? When to use the OAuth consent flow? Then check out this video and learn the best practices for using and managing service accounts. This video also cover how to choose the right authentication method when using a service account based on your use case.Click on the video below to watch it in detail:Chapters:0:00 - Intro0:07 - What are service accounts?0:23 - When to use service accounts?1:23 - OAuth consent flow1:49 - Authentication methods2:53 - Best practices for managing service accounts Best practices for working with service accounts → https://goo.gle/3C11hQO

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in AI and Machine Learning

How to approach wildfire risk analysis with AI

Learn how to use Google Cloud and Earth Engine to visualize geospatial data for environmental risk analysis.Click on the video below to watch it in detail:

8 months ago

ahmedadelfrgCommunity Member

asked in Infrastructure

Monitoring Windows server - Can't detect Ops agent

Hello,I am trying to monitor a Windows server VM on GCP. I installed the agent and it seems that it is running.But from the monitoring page it is not detected.I noticed the following error on the server. Can anyone help me to solve this?

8 months ago

C2C Community TeamC2C Team Member

posted in Application Development

Ambient Mesh, with Justin Pettit and Ethan Jackson

When you think of a service mesh, you probably think of “sidecar containers running with each pod”. The Istio team has come up with a new approach, introduced recently as an experimental preview. Google Cloud software engineers Justin Pettit and Ethan Jackson join Craig to explore ambient mesh.Click on the following link to visit the Kubernetes Podcast:https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/189-ambient-mesh/

8 months ago

MarkusKModerator

posted in AI and Machine Learning

AI for Global Goals - Rainforest Connection

In 2015, the UN set the Sustainable Development Goals, ambitious targets for a better and more sustainable future by 2030. AI can reduce the time and resources needed to progress against some of the world's toughest challenges. Google.org is committing $25M to fund solutions accelerating progress towards the Global Goals. In this post, I will introduce Rainforest Connection, one of the Google.org grantees that uses AI to accomplish its mission.Rainforests naturally absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, making them a vital component in fighting climate change — but they are under profound threat from illegal logging - which accounts for more than half of logging in rainforests. Rainforest Connection develops acoustic monitoring technology that uses AI to protect vulnerable ecosystems by detecting threats like illegal logging in real time. The solar-powered acoustic devices used for threat detection, called RFCx Guardians, transmit audio to the cloud. Then, AI analyzes and classifie

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in AI and Machine Learning

Latest update on enabling real-time AI with Streaming Ingestion in Vertex AI

We know how difficult it is to solve problems like fraud detection, ad targeting, and recommendation engines, which require near real-time predictions. The accuracy of these predictions is heavily reliant on access to the most recent data, with delays of just a few seconds making all the difference.However, it is difficult to set up the infrastructure required to support high-throughput updates and low-latency data retrieval.Erwin Huizenga and Kaz Sato, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud wrote an article based on the latest Vertex AI updates. Vertex AI Matching Engine and Feature Store will support real-time Streaming Ingestion as Preview features. With Streaming Ingestion for Matching Engine, a fully managed vector database for vector similarity search, items in an index are updated continuously and reflected in similarity search results immediately. With Streaming Ingestion for Feature Store, you can retrieve the latest feature values with low latency for highly accurate predictions, a

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in AI and Machine Learning

Serverless replication from operational databases to BigQuery

Google Cloud always updates its applications and infrastructure for its customers' needs. Recently Google Cloud updates on Google Cloud Spanner and Datastream. Here are a couple of updates on Google Cloud Spanner and Datastream. To read it in detail click on the links below.Datastream for BigQuery is in Public Preview:Datastream for BigQuery leverages the same serverless architecture and Change Data Capture (CDC) capabilities. Now with a direct BigQuery destination, customers can easily and seamlessly replicate data from their source databases into BigQuery, saving time and resources.There is also the public preview of Datastream support for PostgreSQL sources https://lnkd.in/gWekJ2qhFor Cloud Spanner there is General Availability launch of the open-source Google Cloud Spanner driver for database/sql in Go! (https://lnkd.in/gYmmbNWa)https://rb.gy/ggw9n5and in public preview fine-grained access control for Cloud Spanner which provides table- and column-level protection for Spanner dat

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in Getting Started on Google Cloud

Learn, Innovate & Grow with Google Cloud

Are you a startup striving for growth and innovation? Are you looking to innovate, revamp and make the best use of your cloud infrastructure? Or are you simply looking to unbox, learn & grow your business with a leading cloud services provider?We at Google Cloud are here to help you learn & understand GCP cloud services and use them to improve your technical landscape. Our focus is to empower growing startups like yours with the right training, tools, technologies, interactive product workshops and support.We are thrilled to announce 60 minutes of monthly interactive sessions on GCP Products & Services conducted by Google Customer Engineers.These detailed sessions & workshops have been especially curated for your organization’s needs and cater to specific use cases that you are working on followed by Q&A discussions with Google Cloud experts.Our customer engineers will be available for 1:1 engagements with startups wanting to discuss architectures, migrations, solut

8 months ago

Kathy SullivanC2C Team Member

posted in Application Development

Complimentary Tickets for Intel Innovation

Intel has provided passes to C2C to invite you to be their guest at their developer conference, Intel Innovation, September 27-28 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Intel Innovation 2022 is focused on driving growth and amplification of developer skills at all levels of the stack.The first 100 to register at intel.com/innovation can use the special Google Developer free pass code GMB at checkout.

8 months ago

roywilliq32Community Member

posted in Getting Started on Google Cloud

Why is "using namespace std;" considered bad practice?

1189I have heard using namespace std; is bad practice, and that I should use std::coutskytvwhatsapp and std::cin directly instead. Why is this? Does it risk declaring variables that share the same name as something in the std namespace?

8 months ago

roywilliq32Community Member

posted in Getting Started on Google Cloud

How do I use extern to share variables between source files?

I know that global variables in C sometimes have the extern keyword. What is an externcorewalking variable? What is the declaration like? What is its scope?This is related to sharing variables across source files, but how does that work precisely? Where do I use extern?

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in AI and Machine Learning

Google Just Put an A.I. Brain in a Robot [Research Breakthrough]

What happens when you put an A.I. Language model in a physical robot? Lets find out.Click on video below to watch it in detail:

8 months ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Infrastructure

A map of storage options in Google Cloud

Where should your application store data?Of course, the choice depends on the use case.This post covers the different storage options available within Google Cloud across three storage types: object storage, block storage, and file storage. It also covers the use cases that are best suited for each storage option.

8 months ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in DevOps and SRE

Strengthening your DevOps muscle

Do you want to learn about modern DevOps practices from DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment), the industry's longest running research program?Check the link below if you want to learn about the four key metrics of high performing software teams, lessons you can build on from our 2021 State of DevOps Report, outcomes you could achieve from high quality DevOps, and how to accelerate software delivery performance using Google Cloud tools. 3 ½ hours on demandKeynote: Driving business success with DevOps - 35 minutes Building software delivery pipelines - 25 minutes Running applications at autoscale - 30 minutes Reliable and blameless: Learning from SRE - 30 minutes Automating deployment operations - 30 minutes DevOps awards show - 60 minutes

8 months ago

iliasC2C Team Member

posted in Getting Started on Google Cloud

Find your learning Path for your GCP Certification

Google Cloud has created this skills boost paths to help us prepare for our certification.A combination of Labs, Quests, and Courses. They are great learning path guides.https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in AI and Machine Learning

Get started with Looker private embedding in Google Cloud

Looker private embedding gives you a quick and simple way to embed Looker content in your host application. In this video of Embedding Looker, Jeremy Chang walk through building the Embed Content URL, creating the iframe, and enabling user access. Watch to learn how you can privately embed Looker content in an iframe!Click on the video below to watch it in detail: Chapters:0:00 - Intro0:14 - What is Looker private embedding1:04 - Knowledge check1:23 - Building the embed content URL4:40 - Create the iframe5:14 - Enable user access7:53 - Wrap up Extra Credit:Private embedding getting started docs → https://goo.gle/3BlMiza SSO Embedding with the Embed SDK getting started docs → https://goo.gle/3BHBCeD

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in Infrastructure

Understanding Google Cloud Spot Instances

A VM enthusiast and a VM skeptic team up to cover what’s happening in the world of VMs. In this video, Developer Advocates Carter Morgan and Brian Dorsey chat about Spot instances which are a discount of about 60 to 90% off the on-demand instance prices, but there’s a trade off. Watch to learn when you can (and should) use Spot Instances!Click on the video below to watch it in detail: Chapters:0:00 - Intro0:47 - Spot instances overview1:43 - Discounts are good... what's the catch?3:00 - 60-90% discount is... quite the range.6:22 - What is a Spot VM?8:00 - How do you test spot workloads?9:24 - Keeping track of VMs that come and go?13:35 - How do I get started?14:45 - Wrap up. Extra credit:Spot VMs → https://goo.gle/3RA0wTo

8 months ago

DanielZCommunity Member

posted in Data Analytics

Lecture on Data Reliability Engineering (DRE) for better Data-driven decision making

Every company wants to be a Data-Driven Organization, but the quality of the Input Data & Data Ingestion Pipelines is too often too low, which puts a CXO's dream of Data-driven decision-making in jeopardy. That is why the interest in Data Observability (a.k.a. Data Reliability Engineering) is on the rise and why we invited Egor Gryaznov – co-founder of Bigeye (leading Data Observability platform), to go deep into DRE topics at the next Serverless Toronto meetup, as we continue to untangle Modern Data Stack “spaghetti”.Egor will cover:DRE historical context – Data Reliability Engineering roots in Google SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), all the Modern Data Stack acronyms – and their relationships, current DIY & vendor choices – for different use cases, similarities & differentiation between Data Observability products – something vendors rarely talk about, so you're in for a treat!Don't be left in the dark; RSVP here for Egor's online lecture on Sep 21 at 6pm EST and bring

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in AI and Machine Learning

Google Cloud inks sustainability agreement with Saudi Government & Climate Engine

Technology and AI are key enablers in today's world where sustainability and climate action are a top priority for governments and businesses. At Google Cloud, it is important for us to leverage our technology, like Google Earth Engine, that can help our customers create a sustainable tomorrow. SDAIA are paving the path for climate action in the Middle East, and Google cloud are thrilled to be part of this journey. Read the full story here Click on the link below to read it more detail:https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2022-09-14-Google-Cloud-Inks-Sustainability-Agreement-with-The-Saudi-Data-Artificial-Intelligence-Authority-SDAIA-and-Ministry-of-Environment,-Water-And-Agriculture-MEWA-to-Drive-Climate-Action-in-the-Kingdom-of-Saudi-Arabia

8 months ago

malaminModerator

posted in AI and Machine Learning

TELUS and Google Cloud partner to create a more sustainable future

Environmental sustainability is a key priority for TELUS, a world-leading communications technology company. It continues to rank in the top 100 most sustainably managed companies in the world, and seeks to make a healthier planet for all by leveraging its global-leading technology, compassion to drive social change and reduce our collective carbon footprint through innovative technologies and sustainable business practices. Click on the link below to read it more detail about how Telus work with google cloud for their sustainable business practices.https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/google-cloud-and-telus-collaborate-for-sustainability

8 months ago

AlfonsC2C Team Member

posted in DevOps and SRE

2022 Technology Trends in the Google Cloud Customer Community

For the very first time, C2C in partnership with Google Cloud, conducted a research study to better understand cloud users and how they interact with different cloud providers at their organizations. We had a very diverse reach of participants from different industries, organization types, decision roles, and educational backgrounds. Interested to see the trends among your peers? Download Report : https://www.c2cglobal.com/c2c-research-report-august-2022

8 months ago

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