In the nineteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview some of the speakers at GCP Next 2016 from the conference floor.
Cool thing of the weekMost videos from GCP Next 2016 are already available on YouTube.
The talks are organized in the following playlists:
- Keynotes
- Solutions Showcase Sessions
- Infrastructure & Operations Sessions
- App Development Sessions
- Data & Analytics Sessions
Mike Kavis is a VP/Principal Architect at CloudTP, and his current areas of focus are IoT, Big Data, and containers. He was part of the GCP partner panel: Learnings from real world cloud migration. Mike also wrote a very interesting article about GCP Next for Forbes.
Mike discusses how people migrate to Google Cloud Platform and how they evolve once on it.
Niels Provos from GoogleNiels Provos is a distinguished engineer working on security/privacy at Google. He was part of the Day 2 Keynote where he discusses what Google Cloud Platform keeps your data and applications safe.
You can learn more about Google Cloud Platform security here.
Niels also talks about Project Shield which provides DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack protection to independent news, human rights, and election monitoring sites for free.
Frances Perry and James Malone from GoogleFrances Perry is a a Software Engineer and a data processing infrastructure geek at Google working in the Cloud Dataflow team.
James Malone is a Product Manager and an Open Source Software advocate working in the Cloud Big Data team at Google.
They both spoke about the evolution of big data processing in the open source software world with Data Processing & OSS: The NEXT Generation.
Julia Ferraioli from GoogleJulia Ferraioli is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform (like Mark and I!) and she told us how to use machine learning to figure out if the object in a picture should be hugged or not.
She covers the continuum of machine learning tools on Google Cloud Platform with David Zuckerman Head of Developer Experience at wix.com during the session Build smart applications with your new superpower: cloud machine learning.
Neil Palmer and Todd Ricker from FISNeil Palmer is the CTO at FIS and Todd Ricker is a Principal Engineer at FIS.
Their talk covers how FIS & Google are working to build a next-generation stock market reconstruction system that aims to bring transparency to the US financial markets and drive innovation across financial services. In this video we dive into the proposed system architecture and show how products like Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Dataflow and BigQuery enable this process.
Watch their talk Analyzing market events at 34M reads/sec and 22M writes/sec with NoOps on GCP.
Question of the weekRomin Irani asked when to use App Engine with Go.