Highlights: Google I/O 2017, TensorFlow 1.0, and Cloud Spanner

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TL;DR 059 — February 24th, 2017

Google I/O Tickets

If you haven’t heard, Google I/O this year is mid-May, right here in Mountain View, California. You can now apply for tickets and must do so by 5pm PT on February 27th, by going to google.com/io. Winners will be notified by email on the 28th.

TensorFlow 1.0

Last week we hosted the first annual TensorFlow Developer Summit where we announced TensorFlow 1.0. It’s faster, more flexible, and more production-ready than ever. For all the details for this release as well as videos of all the sessions at the Dev Summit, please follow the link.

Debug TensorFlow Models with tfdbg

And while we’re on the topic of Machine Learning, you may want to check out TensorFlow Debugger. It’s a tool that makes debugging of machine learning models in TensorFlow easier. Get started by following the link to the post.

Google Maps Android API

We’re rolling out more custom styling and data object association features in the Google Maps Android API to further help you customize your maps. Head on over to the post to learn about styling and custom data for polylines and polygons.

Maps APIs tutorials have a new look

Also, you may have noticed our Maps API tutorials have a new look with complete, step-by-step tutorials for the most common use cases and code up front. Let us know what you think on the post!

Cloud Spanner

When building cloud applications, database administrators and developers have been forced to choose between traditional databases that guarantee transactional consistency, or NoSQL databases that offer simple, horizontal scaling and data distribution. Cloud Spanner offers both of these critical capabilities in a single, fully managed service. Get started with the post.

GPUs on Google Cloud Platform

Oh, one more thing on Google Cloud Platform. NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPUs are now in public beta. You can now spin up NVIDIA GPU-based VMs in three GCP regions. For more details and to get started, follow the link to the post.