In the eighth episode of this podcast and last of 2015, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Felipe Hoffa. Felipe is a developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform and he specializes in Big Data.

About Felipe

In 2011 Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he’s been a Developer Advocate on Big Data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.

Cool thing of the week

Cloud SQL second generation docs and announcement blog post

Interview

BigQuery docs
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters research paper
Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets research paper
Cloud DataFlow docs
FlumeJava: Easy, Efficient Data-Parallel Pipelines research paper
MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale research paper
Cloud Datalab docs
Jupyter project homepage
Cloud BigTable docs
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data research paper
Google Cloud Genomics docs and 23andme homepage
Hey I just met you ... tweet
BigQuery subreddit

Question of the week

Big Data with Felipe Hoffa