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Cloud VPC firewall management

Configuring and maintaining IP-based firewall rules is a complex and manual process that can lead to unauthorized access if done incorrectly. Which is why we’re excited to announce support for service accounts. They simplify the application management lifecycle by providing mechanisms to manage authentication and authorization of applications. More details and screenshots are on the post.

Introducing Preemptible GPUs

You can now attach NVIDIA K80 and NVIDIA P100 GPUs to Preemptible VMs for 50% cheaper than GPUs attached to on-demand instances. Preemptible GPUs will be a particularly good fit for large-scale machine learning and other computational batch workloads as customers can harness the power of GPUs to run distributed batch workloads at predictably affordable prices. Links to get started are on the post.

Okay, this week is short on news from our platform teams. So, if you’re looking for some more reading material, may I recommend some 2017 re-cap posts. Including…

Google Play in 2017

A look back at the most read Google Play posts on Medium in 2017…

Firebase in 2017

…the end of year, “Recap Extravaganza” from the Firebase team…

Google Cloud Platform in 2017

…and some of the most popular Google Cloud Platform product announcements, white papers and how-tos from 2017.

The Developer Show is where you can stay up to date on all the latest Google Developer news, straight from the experts.

Have a question? Use #AskDevShow to let us know!

LoWPAN on Android Things

Android Things Developer Preview 6.1 has API support for configuring and managing Low-power Wireless Personal Area Network including first-class networking support for Thread. These types of connectivity solutions enable Android Things devices to perform edge computing tasks, aggregating data locally from nearby devices to make critical decisions without a constant connection to cloud services. Links to get started are on the post.

Flutter plugin v20

The M20 release of the Flutter plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ is now available! Fixes and improvements are listed on the post.

OAuth whitelisting for GCP services and data

Our OAuth API access controls now let you control access to GCP resources in addition to your users’ G Suite data. Details and screenshots are on the post.

Cloud ML Engine

To help you do more with ML, we’ve adjusted our prices for Cloud Machine Learning Engine and added new features including Python and TensorFlow updates. More details are on the post.

Video Intelligence and Natural Language Updates

We’ve also been expanding our portfolio of pre-trained machine learning models to offer more intuitive features. Cloud Video Intelligence, our machine learning API that analyzes video content, is generally available and now offers video transcription. Cloud Natural Language Content Classification, our latest feature, which automatically classifies content into over 700 categories, is now generally available and has added additional samples in seven programming languages.

Core ML support in TensorFlow Lite

You can now deploy TensorFlow models with Core ML on iOS. Links to the documentation and the Core ML converter are on the post.

Hangouts Meet now available in the Google Calendar API

Hangouts Meet is now accessible through the Google Calendar API to read conference data associated with events, copy conference data from one event to another, and request new conference generation for an event. Example code is on the post.

MechaHamster for iOS

We built an iOS game with Firebase and the Unity Project is open source. Take a look at the post to learn more about the Firebase Unity SDK and how it’s used in MechaHamster.

Diagnose and understand GPU behavior with GAPID

The Graphics API Debugger is a new tool that helps you diagnose rendering and performance issues with your applications. With it, you can capture a trace of your application and step through each graphics command one-by-one. Take a look at the post for screenshots and the download link.

S2 Library: Geometry on the Sphere

The S2 library is the core geometric library on which Google’s global geographic database is built and now it’s open source. Take a look at the post for a description and the GitHub link.