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TL;DR 089 — November 17th, 2017

Hello I’m Timothy Jordan, and this is your update about the coolest developer news from Google in the last week.

Architecture Components 1.0 Stable

The Room and Lifecycle Architecture Components libraries have reached 1.0 stable, which means they are ready for production apps and libraries. These foundational components make it possible to write modular apps with less boilerplate code, so you can focus on innovating instead of reinventing the wheel. You can get started with the post.

Play Games Services APIs

In 11.6.0 of the Google Play Services SDK, we’re introducing a major change in the APIs meant to make them easier to use, thread-safe, and more memory efficient. We’ve deprecated the GoogleApiClient class, and introduced a decoupled collection of feature-specific API clients. All the details and sample code are on the post.

TensorFlow r1.4

TensorFlow 1.4 is now available. Included in the changes, both Keras and Datasets have graduated to core packages. For more details on these and other updates, check out the post.

Tangent: Source-to-Source Debuggable Derivatives

Tangent is a new, free, and open-source Python library for automatic differentiation. And it’s source-to-source system, consuming a Python function f and emitting a new Python function that computes the gradient of f. This allows much better user visibility into gradient computations, as well as easy user-level editing and debugging of gradients.

DNSSEC now in Cloud DNS

We’re excited to announce that we’re adding Domain Name System Security Extensions support to our fully managed Google Cloud DNS service. Now you and your users can take advantage of the protection provided by DNSSEC without having to maintain it once it’s set up. Screenshots are on the post.

Google Cloud Dataprep

Google Cloud Dataprep, which has been available to the public in a beta release for just a month, had its first public update on Thursday. Included is a fresh UI, job scheduling, and richer sampling options. Details for each are on the post.