The Developer Show — TL;DR 083
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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.
The Developer Show — TL;DR 082
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!
TensorFlow Datasets and Estimators
The recent TensorFlow 1.3 release introduced datasets and estimators — two important features that you should try out. This post gives you all the details you need to do just that.
Infinite Deviation: Games
Google Play is committed to bringing new, diverse voices to gaming. Infinite Deviation: Games is a program that gives game designers from all backgrounds the chance to pitch an original mobile game concept and have it developed, published, and promoted in partnership with Google Play. Follow the link to submit your mobile game concepts by October 9th.
Cross-platform Firebase Sample App
Do you wish there were an open-sourced Firebase playbook app that you could use to see real-life use cases that also demonstrates the use of multiple Firebase products together? Well, wish no longer, FriendlyPix is here. Head on over to the post for the design doc, app links, and the GitHub link.
Open-source tools for GCP security
Spotify and Google Cloud recently worked together to develop innovative innovative security tools that help organizations protect GCP projects. They’re available in an open source community called Forseti Security; and they’re now open to all GCP users.
Managed SSL for Google App Engine
We’re excited to announce the beta release of managed SSL certificates at no charge for applications built on Google App Engine. This service automatically encrypts server-to-client communication which is an essential part of safeguarding sensitive information over the web. Getting started details are on the post.
New German GCP region
We’re also excited to announce that the first Google Cloud Platform region in Germany is now open for business. You can now choose the German region to build applications and store data.
AdWords dashboards
Having a consolidated, and comprehensive view of how your AdWords account is doing helps you spend less time creating reports, and more time identifying new opportunities. That’s why over the next several weeks, we’re rolling out dashboards: a single place in AdWords where you can bring together your most important reports and unearth insights about your business. Screenshots and details are on the post.
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