Level up your AI skills in 2025

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DEVELOPER'S DIGEST   |   JANUARY 2025

A QUICK NOTE Happy New Year and welcome back for our first Google Cloud Developer Digest of 2025! We wrap up the best stories of the month and popular training to help you stay ahead in your cloud career. Become a Google Cloud Innovator and receive 35 learning credits at no-cost every month on Google Cloud Skills Boost to accelerate your learning journey.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Strengthen user experience and conversion rates by building a multimodal search engine. (6-minute read) Introducing Vertex AI's RAG Engine: Scale your Vertex AI RAG pipeline with confidence. (5-minute read) Protect against global outages by partitioning your cloud applications. (6-minute read) Improve precision for your specialized business tasks using supervised fine-tuning for Gemini. (13-minute read) Follow our step-by-step guide to building dynamic web experiences with Conversational Agents. (3-minute read)

UPCOMING EVENTS [ MLB and Google Cloud Hackathon ] [[https://next2025challenge.devpost.com/?utm_source=cloud_sfdc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FY25-Q1-northam-NRTH1157-email-oi-northam-named-dev-newsletter-jan2025&utm_content=named-dev-newsletter-jan2025&utm_term=-]]   Major League Baseball is calling all developers to join the ultimate challenge: build groundbreaking fan experiences on Google Cloud. Win a chance to demo your creation during the Next developer keynote and even score a trip to the 2025 MLB® All-Star Game® presented by Mastercard. Step up to the plate and register today to compete. Upcoming webinars   February 18th: Build Apps in the AI Era: Technical Demo Join us for this technical demo and receive access to a hands-on lab. The AI era demands a revolution in application development. Learn to harness the power of generative AI and seamlessly integrate it with your unique business data.    February 20th: Build secure, scalable apps with Firebase and Cloud SQL Discover Firebase Data Connect, a relational data model solution for backend development using Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. Build secure, scalable mobile, web and AI-powered apps with ease.

TRENDY TRAINING Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine (3 hours 30 minutes, 5 credits) Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center (5 hours 30 minutes, 5 credits) Develop GenAI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit (5 hours 45 minutes, 20 credits)

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