Episode description

Matthew Ulasien covers the biggest news for Google Cloud Platform this month, with a look at how Samsung’s Bixby is using Google’s tensor processing unit (TPU) solution to boost its machine learning training, new features for Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Memorystore, and Google’s new suite of AI solutions for retail. Matthew also gives us his top predictions for GCP in 2021, including a look at how he thinks open-source services like Eventarc and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) will play a part.

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Quick jump to the news:
Introduction (0:00)
MQL in GA (0:50)
Samsung Bixby gets a boost with TPU (1:32)
Memorystore for Redis security updates (2:53)
Google AI suite for retailers (3:35)
Recommendations AI (4:09)
Product Search (4:30)
Google Cloud Search for Retail (4:54)
Google predictions for 2021 (5:25)

Monitoring Query Language now generally available 
https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/mql

Samsung Bixby training gets 18x speed boost with Cloud TPU
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/samsung-bixby-training-gets-speed-boost-with-cloud-tpu

AUTH feature overview | Memorystore for Redis
https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/auth-overview

TLS encryption overview | Memorystore for Redis
https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/tls-encryption-overview

Google launches suite of AI-powered solutions for retailers
https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/19/google-launches-suite-of-ai-powered-solutions-for-retailers/

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