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TensorFlow Dev Summit 2018

The second annual TensorFlow developer Summit was held on March 30th and, as you could predict, it was awesome. But don’t worry if you missed the event — or the livestream. The post has all the highlights including how we’re making TensorFlow easier to use, work on more languages and platforms, and how we’re expanding community resources. The DevShow crew was also on site to interview some speakers, so watch for those videos on this channel soon.

Android Studio

D8 is a next-generation dex compiler that runs faster and produces smaller dex files with equivalent or better runtime performance when compared to the historic compiler. And D8 is now the default dex compiler. To learn more, including the deprecation plan for DX, take a look at the post.

Google Fonts Korean support

The Google Fonts catalog now includes Korean web fonts for those of you working with the Hangul writing system. To learn more about these fonts and the The Google Fonts API, head for the post.

MobileNetV2

Last year we introduced MobileNetV1, a family of general purpose computer vision neural networks designed with mobile devices in mind to support classification, detection and more. MobileNetV2 is now available and it’s a significant improvement over MobileNetV1, pushing the state of the art for mobile visual recognition including classification, object detection and semantic segmentation. Links to the TensorFlow-Slim Image Classification Library, Colaboratory, Jupyter notebook, and GitHub repo are in the post.

Cloud Functions for Firebase v1.0

Cloud Functions for Firebase helps you build backend functionality for your app without worrying about managing servers. Version 1.0 of the Cloud Functions for Firebase SDK is now available with frequently requested improvements for the development, testing, and monitoring of Functions. More details are on the post.

Kubernetes Engine from GitLab

GitLab and Google Cloud recently announced a new integration of GitLab and Kubernetes Engine. You can now connect your Kubernetes Engine cluster to your GitLab project, then use it to run your continuous integration jobs and configure a complete continuous deployment pipeline including previewing your changes live and deploying them into production. Getting started instructions and screenshots are in the post.

VPC Flow Logs

Logging and monitoring are the cornerstones of network and security operations, they let you identify traffic and access patterns that may present security or operational risks to the organization. We recently introduced VPC Flow Logs which increase transparency into your network and allow you to track network flows all the way down to an individual virtual interface in near-real-time. A flow chart and screengrab are in the post.

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TensorRT and TensorFlow 1.7

NVIDIA® TensorRT is a library that optimizes deep learning models for inference and creates a runtime for deployment on GPUs in production environments. TensorRT and TensorFlow are integrated with TensorFlow 1.7. In our tests, we found that ResNet-50 performed 8 time faster under 7 milliseconds latency with the TensorFlow-TensorRT integration using NVIDIA Volta Tensor Cores as compared with running TensorFlow only. For graphs and code, check out the post.

Android Studio 3.1

Android Studio 3.1 is now available to download in the stable release channel. The focus areas for this release are around product quality and app development productivity. In addition to many underlying quality changes, we added several new features into Android Studio 3.1 that you should take a look at integrating into your development flow including a C++ performance profiler, better code editor support to aid in your SQL table and query creation statements, and better lint support for your Kotlin code. Details and screenshots are on the post.

Wear OS by Google

The Wear OS developer preview is now available, bringing Android P platform features to wearables. Included are the dark UI system theme and restriction related to non-SDK methods and fields. Install instructions are on the post.

Stackdriver APM and Stackdriver Profiler

Stackdriver Profiler is now available. It lets you profile and explore how your code actually executes in production, to optimize performance and reduce cost of computation. Head on over to the post to learn more about the the Stackdriver Application Performance Management toolkit including integrations between Stackdriver Debugger and GitHub Enterprise and GitLab.

Cloud Text-to-Speech

You can use Cloud Text-to-Speech for high-quality text-to-speech synthesis that produces natural sounding speech. It lets you choose from 32 different voices from 12 languages and variants, correctly pronounces complex text such as names, dates, times and addresses, *and* allows you to customize pitch, speaking rate, and volume gain. Links to get started are on the post.

Kubernetes Engine Private Clusters

Kubernetes Engine Private Clusters is now available in beta. With it, you can deploy clusters privately as part of the Google Virtual Private Cloud. Your cluster’s nodes can then only be accessed from within the trusted VPC. Getting started instructions are on the post.