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Actions on Google

Actions on Google has a new directory, more device availability, and more control of your home with smart home control. Details and links are on the post.

PageSpeed Insights

PageSpeed Insights provides information about how well a page adheres to a set of best practices. And it now uses data from the Chrome User Experience Report to make better recommendations for you and the optimization score has been tuned to be more aligned with the real-world data.

Apps Script

There are three new tools to help further improve your workflows and manage Apps Script projects: the Apps Script dashboard, Apps Script API, and Apps Script Command Line Interface. Screenshots and more are on the post.

The Google Brain Team

The Google Brain team works to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence with research and systems engineering, as one part of the overall Google AI effort. Check out these two posts (part 1, part 2) for some highlights of their work in 2017 including some of the basic research work, updates on open source software, datasets, new hardware for machine learning, healthcare, robotics, and more.

Unit Tests for Docker Images

The Container Structure Test framework provides a convenient and powerful way to verify the contents and structure of your containers. We’ve been using this framework at Google to test all of our team’s released containers for over a year now, and we’re excited to finally share it with you. You can get started with the details on the post.

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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.