2019-06-05 JUN

A. GCP training notes

Continuous deployment

FaaS deployment for continuous delivery from github https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/deploying/repo.

Keeping data assets in multi-regional buckets avoids transfer costs - there are none in moving assets between buckets. Cloud PubSub achieves the same for text-based transfer/communication.

Online Training

There is a lot of material, with or without certification as the end point. A quick sample,

  1. https://cloud.google.com/training/ (free)
  2. https://codelabs.developers.google.com/cloud-summit-ny/ ... for the full list https://codelabs.developers.google.com/ (free)
  3. https://googlecloud.qwiklabs.com/ (not free, each classroom creates test GCP accounts)
  4. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/google-it-support --> designed for professional certification
  5. https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=google%20cloud <-- full list at Coursera


B. APIs for Visualizing descriptive cancer statistics

Primarily from CDC and SEER:

Elsewhere

UMD group working on cancer and death registration visualization.

@ DCEG

Meredith Shiels ...

Being approached in EpiSPhere at https://github.com/episphere/caviz, where a support library for dashboard applications is being developed, for example https://observablehq.com/@episphere/caviz.


C. API design

A good reason to update your postman - https://www.programmableweb.com/news/postman-71-allows-devs-to-create-apis-directly-app/2019/05/21.

Original post at https://blog.getpostman.com/2019/05/16/announcing-postman-7-1.

Documentation and tutorial at https://learning.getpostman.com/docs/postman/design_and_develop_apis/introduction_to_apis/

Can we give it a try with DCEG Connect API at https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/3282203/S1LsXq2E ?


D. News on "the Web as the Universal Platform"

https://youtu.be/GSiUzuB-PoI