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Apps for the Google Assistant

Actions on Google is coming to new devices and new languages, and getting better for building and sharing apps with templates and transactions. Check out all the details and links on the post.

Google Assistant on Android TV

Also, the Google Assistant is now available on Android TV, and although there are no new APIs needed to integrate with it, you should follow the pattern that it expects from your app. This post has all the details including code.

Introducing Cloud Firestore

We recently launched Cloud Firestore, a fully-managed NoSQL document database for mobile and web app development. It’s designed to easily store and sync app data at global scale, and it’s now available in beta. Take a look at the post for an introduction video and highlights.

Managing Google Cloud Platform with Chef

Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by an awesome community. We recently released and open sourced a set of comprehensive cookbooks for Chef users to manage Google Cloud Platform resources. Together, Chef and Google Cloud Platform enable you to drive continuous automation across infrastructure, compliance, and applications.

PHP 7.1 for Google App Engine now GA

PHP 7.1 is now generally available on Google App Engine in the flexible environment. Check out the post for how to deploy PHP applications on App Engine, how to use the extension enabler, stackdriver logging, and more.

Nested virtualization for Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine now supports nested virtualization in beta. This allows you to run one or more virtual machines inside a Compute Engine Linux virtual machine — VMs inside of VMs.

Java 8 on App Engine standard environment now GA

Java 8 on App Engine standard environment is now generally available and is covered by the App Engine Service Level Agreement.

Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project

Abseil is an open-source collection of C++ library code designed to augment the C++ standard library. These libraries are the nuts-and-bolts that underpin almost everything that Google runs and have been extensively tested and used in production. The GitHub link is on the post.

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Google Play Billing Library 1.0

The Play Billing Library simplifies the development process for Google Play Billing, allowing you to focus your efforts on your app… and the official 1.0 release is now available! Head on over to the post for a video introduction and code.

Faster GPUs for Google Compute Engine

Cloud GPUs can accelerate your workloads including machine learning training and inference, geophysical data processing, simulation, molecular modeling, and more. And now faster GPUs are available. NVIDIA P100 GPUs are now in beta, NVIDIA K80 GPUs are now generally available on Google Compute Engine, and sustained use discounts are now available on both the P100 and K80 GPUs.

Google Cloud Dataprep

Google Cloud Dataprep is an intelligent, fully-managed cloud service that visually explores, cleans and prepares structured and unstructured data for analysis or training machine-learning models. And now it’s available to everyone, as a public beta! Check out the post for more details and a video introduction.

Cloud Natural Language

Cloud Natural Language enables you to extract critical information from written data. And we recently launched two new features that can help you further organize your content and better understand how your users feel. For more details on the launch and a tutorial on classifying text, check out the links.

Committed use discounts for Google Compute Engine

Committed use discounts are now generally available. Committed use discounts are ideal for predictable, steady-state use of Google Compute Engine instances. They require no upfront payments and allow you to purchase a specific number of vCPUs and a total amount of memory for up to 57% off normal prices. More details are on the post.

Stackdriver Debugger for Node.js

Stackdriver Debugger lets you inspect the state of an application at any code location without using logging statements and without stopping or slowing down your applications. And we just announced that Stackdriver Debugger for Node.js is now officially in beta. The agent is open source, and available on npm. Get started with the post.

New Ways to Connect and Measure on YouTube

Our latest research with Ipsos suggests people are 3 times more likely to pay attention to online video ads vs. television ads. And within online video, people pay nearly 2x more attention to video ads on YouTube than they do on other social media. Head on over to the post to review four new tools to help you capture the attention of your audience on Youtube.