Introduction

Happy Holidays from all of us at Google! This week, hosts Carter Morgan, Stephanie Wong, and Max Saltonstall are sharing their favorite moments from the year! From great partnerships with national companies, new releases in some of your favorite Google software tools, and a trillion digits of pi, we’re breaking down some 2022 highlights and introducing special guest Podcast Producer Kevin McCormack to help with a fun podcast trivia game!

Carter Morgan

Carter Morgan is Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, where he creates and hosts content on Google’s Youtube channel, co-hosts several Google Cloud podcasts, and designs courses like the Udacity course “Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes” he co-created with Kelsey Hightower. Carter Morgan is an international standup comedian, who’s approach of creating unique moments with the audience in front of him has seen him perform all over the world, including in Paris, London, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with Joe White. And in 2019, and the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Previously, he was a programmer for the USAF and Microsoft.

Stephanie Wong

Stephanie Wong is a Developer Advocate focusing on online content across all Google Cloud products. She’s a host of the GCP Podcast and the Where the Internet Lives podcast, along with many GCP Youtube video series. She is the winner of a 2021 Webby Award for her content about data centers. Previously she was a Customer Engineer at Google and at Oracle. Outside of her tech life she is a former pageant queen and hip hop dancer and has an unhealthy obsession with dogs.

Max Saltonstall

Max Saltonstall is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google Cloud. He is a father, teacher, storyteller, speaker, educator, nefarious villain, game designer, juggler, and is only part zombie.

Cool things of the week

• Boost medical discoveries with AlphaFold on Vertex AI blog
• 6 common mistakes to avoid in RESTful web API Design blog
• Marketing Analytics With Google Cloud blog

Our Favorite Episodes of 2022

• Stephanie’s Favorites
• • GCP Podcast Episode 290: Resiliency at Shopify with Camilo Lopez and Tai Dickerson podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 315: Cloud Functions (2nd gen) with Jaisen Mathai and Sara Ford podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 307: FinOps with Joe Daly podcast
• Carter’s Favorites
• • GCP Podcast Episode 308: New Pi World Record with Emma Haruka Iwao and Sara Ford podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 327: ML/AI Data Science for Data Analytics with Jed Dougherty and Dan Darnell podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 289: Cloud Security Megatrends with Phil Venables podcast
• Max’s Favorites
• • GCP Podcast Episode 316: Google Cloud for Higher Education with Laurie White and Aaron Yeats podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 317: Launching Products at Google Cloud with Anita Kibunguchy-Grant and Gabe Weiss podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 325: Digital Sovereignty with Archana Ramamoorthy and Julien Blanchez podcast
• Stephanie’s Honorable Mentions
• • GCP Podcast Episode 323: Next 2022 with Forrest Brazeal and Stephanie Wong podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 298: Celebrating Women’s History Month with Vidya Nagarajan Raman podcast
• Carter’s Honorable Mentions
• • GCP Podcast Episode 312: Managed Service for Prometheus with Lee Yanco and Ashish Kumar podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 290: Resiliency at Shopify with Camilo Lopez and Tai Dickerson podcast
• Max’s Honorable Mentions
• • GCP Podcast Episode 326: Assured Workloads with Key Access Justifications with Bryce Buffaloe and Seth Denney | Google Cloud Platform Podcast podcast

Hosts

Stephanie Wong, Carter Morgan and Max Saltonstall