Brian Dorsey and Mark Mirchandani are back this week with guests from Capgemini as we learn all about ML in the rugby industry. Priscilla Li, Head of Applied Innovation, and Aishwarya Kandukuri, Data Scientist, start the interview explaining what they do at Capgemini and how the company uses new technologies to enhance projects with their partners. When Capgemini became the official global innovation partner of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, they were tasked with creating new ways for fans to use technology to further their experience. Priscilla and Aishwarya explain how they created a series of digital projects to accomplish this goal, and how the experience inspired them to use AI to automate aspects of the actual rugby games, such as identifying a scrum. They explain the challenges of these projects and how they conquered those challenges, as well as ways it has benefited the rugby commentators, players, and fans. Later, they talk specifics regarding the process of tagging images and audio to use in AI projects and things they learned along the way. Priscilla and Aishwarya wrap up the interview with advice for others who may want to tackle a similar project. Priscilla Li Priscilla Li is a leader of Applied Innovation Exchange in the UK.  Her purpose is to apply innovation in ways that advance humanity with a team that is diverse in gender, thought, discipline and experience.  Together, they shape ideas and breathe life into them through the application of emerging technologies with a human perspective.  Priscilla has held leadership roles in innovation and technology, advising and implementing innovative solutions across industries in telecommunications, transport, public sector, and media.  As a founding member of Artfinder, funded by Silicon Valley and UK Venture Capitalists, she delivered the first image recognition technology to discover, share and sell art. In 2012, she was selected by Business Weekly as one of the top Cambridge entrepreneurs and received the Chairman’s Award for excellence at American Airlines. In the Applied Innovation Exchange, she continues to bring to life the art of the possible, collaborating with start-ups, academia, and the wider community to unlock new opportunities for growth and meaningful transformation.  Grateful for her journey, she hopes to inspire women to be pioneers, unencumbered by the reality of today, but energised by the promise of tomorrow.   Aishwarya Kandukuri Aishwarya Kandukuri is a Data Scientist in Capgemini’s Insights & Data Practice. Her role involves testing ideas and concepts by analysing data and building machine learning models using emerging technology. Aishwarya works with an interdisciplinary team to drive business solutions. She worked on various projects across the industries to apply Machine Learning concepts to solve complex business problems to meet the needs of the customers. She continues to seek innovative approaches and explore new technologies to achieve long lasting solutions. Cool things of the week From raw data to machine learning model, no coding required blog Helping contact centers respond rapidly to customer concerns about COVID-19 blog How can Chatbots help during global pandemic (COVID-19)? blog Verily COVID-19 Pathfinder virtual agent site COVID-19 Rapid Response Demo on GitHub site Deconstructing Chatbots video Recent Podcasts with Priyanka: GCP Podcast Episode 188: Conversation AI with Priyanka Vergadia podcast GCP Podcast Episode 195: Conversational AI Best Practices with Cathy Pearl and Jessica Dene Earley-Cha podcast Interview Capgemini site Altran site Rugby sevens partnership and technology site AWS Kinesis site AWS Fargate site Applied Innovations Exchange on Medium blog Emerging technologies in sports site Applied AI within a Pop-Up store: a collaboration between Action for Children and Capgemini AIE video To get the Quarterly Applied Innovation UK newsletter email TensorFlow site Firebase site Question of the week We talk to our friend Zack about how we could build something similar with ML! AutoML might be the way to go! Where can you find us next? Capgemini will be at more What’s Now London Events with topics like Disrupting The Field Brian has been working on videos like Rethinking VMs - Eyes on Enterprise. He’s also been live streaming with Yufeng in Adventures with Yufeng on VMs. Mark will be making more videos like Kubeflow 101.

Brian Dorsey and Mark Mirchandani team up this week to speak with Thomas Jung and Lucia Subatin about SAP. SAP, the company that builds software and other technology components, is probably best known for their Enterprise Resource Planning software that helps businesses with everything from accounting to order management. Their Customer Relationship Management software helps companies with things like marketing campaign management and sales, while SAP’s Supplier Relationship Management software helps clients manage large supply chains. Thomas explains how companies can get started with SAP products and integrate them into their current systems. Once SAP products are employed, clients benefit from a better understanding of their complete business and a more efficient company. SAP developers must have great communication skills, as they take SAP products and tailor them to each individual company, whether on-prem or in the cloud. Later, Lucia and Thomas describe instances when clients may want to take their core businesses and enhance them with technologies like AI and how this is possible. To wrap up the episode, Thomas and Lucia introduce us to SAP products like HANA, their Cloud Application Programming Model, and security measures. Thomas Jung Thomas Jung is Head of Developer Advocacy - a team within the SAP Developer & Community Relations organization. The Developer Advocates inform and educate about SAP and related development technologies and also act as the voice of external developers within the SAP organization. Lucia Subatin Chocolate, cats, computers. Lucia spends a lot of time with the computer, either solving problems or starting trouble. She likes to architect technology solutions to help enterprises run more efficiently. Her cats and chocolate help her bring innovations. Cool things of the week Google Cloud learning resources at no cost for 30 days blog Powering up caching with Memorystore for Memcached blog Interview SAP site OData site Pub/Sub site Cloud Knative site SAP TechEd site Cloud Run site Google Cloud Platform Podcast Episode 166: SAP HANA with Lucia Subatin and Kevin Nelson podcast Qwiklabs site Question of the week How do I get started with caching? Why should I cache? Brian tells us more about caching, Memcached, and Redis. Where can you find us next? Brian is taking it day by day right now. Mark will be making more videos!

Gabi Ferrara joins Mark Mirchandani today for an in-depth interview with Dale Markowitz about machine learning in the healthcare and medical fields. Dale talks about the coolest ways ML is transforming the healthcare field with advances in imaging and more accurate diagnoses of cancers. Later, Dale talks about how the cloud is used in healthcare to make data collection and sharing more efficient. The Google For Healthcare API, for example, makes working with common medical data types such as FHIR easier and more consistent. It helps with things like anonymizing of data and works with BigQuery for data analyzation. When data is collected and stored in the right format, it can be used to track healing progress, make health predictions, and more. Dale Markowitz Dale Markowitz is an Applied AI Engineer and Developer Advocate at Google. Cool things of the week Google Game Developer Summit on Youtube videos Simplifying Google Drive’s folder structure and sharing models blog PostgreSQL 12 is in Beta on Google Cloud docs New 96-core machine types for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server Interview Google’s lung cancer detection AI outperforms 6 human radiologists article BigQuery site Cloud Healthcare API site Google FHIR docs Google Games Dev Summit Playlist videos Building Contact Center AI Solutions with Quantiphi - Stack Chat video Verily site DeepMind site AlphaFold: Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning research Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19 research How Machine Learning is Transforming Healthcare at Google and Beyond blog How to develop machine learning models for healthcare article Question of the week Where do I get started debugging performance for my MySQL database? Diagnose and Slow-Query Log Where can you find us next? Gabi will be working Office Hours. Mark will be making more videos like KubeFlow 101 Series and Stack Chat.

Today on the podcast, Jon Foust is back with Mark Mirchandani as we talk about SLOs and the importance of measuring service reliability with Alex Bramley. As a member of the Google SRE team, Alex and his coworkers help customers optimally run their services on Google Cloud. They collaborate with the client, weighing client needs and user needs to develop a plan that is affordable, efficient, and has the highest reliability for the user. Recently, they’ve been working to automate functions such as detection of outages, so that Google and the customer can work together quickly to get everything working smoothly again. Later, Alex, describes the steps developers go through at his workshop, The Art of SLOs, which was designed to help companies measure and improve reliability. At this workshop, attendees are encouraged to set SLO targets and error budgets. They are given theoretical reliability problems to solve, allowing them to practice without the added pressure of messy, real-world problems. The Art of SLOs helps developers understand what measurements are beneficial and why and the best way to implement projects that can take those measurements accurately. Alex was able to make the materials for the workshop free online! Alex Bramley Alex Bramley joined Google in January 2010 as the first Mobile SRE in London, after IBM bought the startup he enjoyed working for and made it much less fun. He spent around 7½ years in various reincarnations of Mobile/Android/Play SRE, looking after the infrastructure that makes phones smart, keeps them up to date, and provides them with countless distracting apps. CRE offered an interesting opportunity to do something different and learn from a bunch of very smart senior people, and Alex has not regretted taking the leap into the unknown. Much of his time recently has been spent rethinking how people teach customers, partners and the general public about SLOs. He helped create the Coursera course on measuring and managing reliability and developed what became the Art of SLOs for Liz Fong-Jones to deliver with other Google SREs at SREcon EMEA’18. Alex works four days a week so he can (suffer) enjoy looking after his children on Wednesdays, listen to cheerful music, and waste a lot of time playing computer games and occasionally writing code. Cool things of the week Postponing Google Cloud Next ’20: Digital Connect blog New research: How effective is basic account hygiene at preventing hijacking blog Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers blog Interview The Art of SLOs site CRE Life Lessons blog Putting customers first with SLIs and SLOs blog Putting customers first with SLIs and SLOs (Part 2) blog Measuring and Managing Reliability course Site Reliability Engineering books Question of the week How do I get started with GCGS? docs Google for Games Developer Summit Keynote video Google for Games Developer Summit Playlists videos Where can you find us next? Jon will be working on an Open Match sample project for the developer community. Mark will be making more videos like Error Reporting and error logging - Stack Doctor.

It’s all about data management this week on the podcast as Brian Dorsey and Mark Mirchandani talk to Google Cloud Product Marketing Manager, Amy Krishnamohan. Amy starts the show by explaining that Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service that recently added Microsoft SQL Server to its repertoire. We talk about SQL Server’s migration from 2008R2 to a newer version, the process involved, and how it’s effecting customers. Luckily, Cloud SQL for SQL Server is very backwards compatible, making the process easy for Google Cloud customers! Cloud SQL also offers other tools to make using Microsoft SQL Server easier with Google Cloud, including shortcuts to set up the high availability function. Amy talks later in the show about what companies are a good fit for Microsoft SQL Servers on Google Cloud. She explains the steps to set up and tear down, how licensing works, and what the best use cases are for Microsoft SQL Servers on Google Cloud. In the future, Cloud SQL will have a managed AD service available. A multi-cloud strategy is important, according to Amy. It is up to each company to research cloud services and pick the best vendors and products for themselves and their clients. Cloud SQL for SQL Server is a way to bring two great products together for the benefit of consumers. Amy Krishnamohan Amy Krishnamohan is Product Marketing Manager at Google Cloud responsible for databases. She has diverse experience across product marketing, marketing strategy and product management from leading enterprise software companies such as MariaDB, Teradata, SAP, Accenture, Cisco and Intuit. Amy received her Masters in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University. Cool things of the week Introducing Cloud AI Platform Pipelines blog Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack blog Larger local SSD storage available now blog Compute Engine gets machine images blog Google Cloud Next Update site Interview Microsoft SQL Server site Google Cloud SQL site BigQuery site GCE site Question of the week Lift and shift, move and improve, or re-architect: How do we “move and improve”? GCP Podcast Episode 211: Digital Services with xMatters podcast Importing virtual disks docs Create machine image from virtual appliance file (OVA/OVF) docs Tutorial: Getting started with Migrate for Compute Engine docs Whitepaper: Velostrata technology for mass migrations into Google Cloud Platform whitepaper Where can you find us next? We’re working from home for a while! Brian will be looking at getting a kind of weekly “reading group” of people who work with VMs and want to get better. Ping him on Twitter if you’re interested! Mark will be working on more video content and a cool nickname for Brian!

Priyanka Vergadia joins Mark Mirchandani today to talk shop with Travis DePuy about all things digital services. Travis is a product evangelist for xMatters, a company that provides digital services for clients in a way that makes it easy for them to “limit the blast radius” as they build and use their projects. At xMatters, customers can build an incident management workflow for their custom services and integrate the tools of their choice. Travis talks about service degradation and how xMatters helps clients optimize and manage their services to control instances of degradation. With programs like Google Stackdriver, xMatters can set limits and get alerts when thresholds are met, then use that information to fix performance. Later in the show, Travis talks about moving a large enterprise like xMatters to the cloud. Travis DePuy Travis DePuy is a Tinkerer of Things, Master of Hats and Father of Kitties. He is currently Head Product Evangelist at xMatters where he gets to talk to people about how they are doing Incident Management, DevOps notifications and anything else involving humans, processes and tools. Travis balances the stationary computer work with the fluid moving of Chen Taichi and is often found in the sun flowing the forms of the old ways. Cool things of the week Join us for Google Cloud Next ‘20: Digital Connect blog Connecting businesses and educators with advanced Hangouts Meet capabilities blog Interview xMatters site Site Reliability Engineering Book site Stackdriver site Migrating a monolith to GKE - Customer Story (Get Cooking in Cloud) video Question of the week How can I improve reliability/availability with the least amount of work? Codelabs site Migrating a monolithic application to microservices on Google Kubernetes Engine article Migrating a Monolith to Google Kubernetes Engine — An Overview blog Where can you find us next? You can find Priyanka online in her video series Get Cooking in Cloud and her series on Pub/Sub. You can see Mark in recently released Stack Chat videos.

Emily Cai of Google is on the podcast today with hosts Brian Dorsey and Mark Mirchandani to talk about Kubernetes Config Connector, which went GA last month. The program helps users manage their Google Cloud resources in a way that is familiar for Kubernetes developers. Emily explains that it’s a great tool for Kubernetes developers looking to easily manage their infrastructure in one place. A platform team managing other teams is a perfect example of large-scale companies who could benefit from this tool, Emily explains. Walking listeners through the development cycle before and after Kubernetes Config Connector, Emily shines some light on specific instances when this powerful tool could streamline the process of building your project, making it faster and more efficient. She elaborates on the ways Config Connector and Anthos can work together as well. In the future, the Config Connector team hopes to cover all GCP resources, to create a more clear end-to-end experience for Kubernetes developers, and to allow Config Connector to be enabled straight onto a cluster. Emily Cai Emily is an engineer on Google Cloud’s Config Connector team focused on creating a declarative way for users to manage their non-Kubernetes resources. She has been with Google since November 2018 after interning twice (once in Irvine, once in Zurich). Currently living in Seattle, she is an avid frisbee player and winter sports enthusiast who is always open to new experiences. Cool things of the week SQL Server, managed in the cloud blog Now, you can explore Google Cloud APIs with Cloud Code blog Interview Kubernetes site Kubernetes Docs site Kubernetes Config Connector on Github site Kubernetes Config Connector Docs site Unify Kubernetes and GCP resources for simpler and faster deployments blog keeprunning.io blog Cloud SQL site Compute Engine site Pub/Sub site Terraform site Anthos site Question of the week How can I improve reliability/availability with the least amount of work? Regional Persistent Disks site High Availability Regional Persistent Disks site Where can you find us next? Our guest will be at Kubecon Europe and speaking at Next Mark and Brian will also be at Next!

Jon Foust and Mark Mirchandani are joined today by Domile Janenaite and Chris Stephenson of Humanitec. Humanitec, a German startup, helps developers run their code easily and smoothly in various environments. Chris and Domile start off by explaining why Humanitec was founded and what sets it apart from competitors, especially in the way it streamlines devops integration. Later, we learn how Humanitec is helping developers get the most out of cloud development by not only easily running deployments but also aiding in environment management. Developers can spend more time writing code and less time worrying about how they’ll get it to run. Chris also expands on how they built Humanitec, the reasoning behind their development decisions, and the challenges they faced. Domile goes on to describe the types of teams and companies that Humanitec is best suited for and why. Domile Janenaite Domile Janenaite is a product manager at Humanitec, focusing on developer experience in cloud-native development. Her team’s goal is to help developers escape scripting hell and smoothly enter the world of continuous delivery. In 2014 while studying she dove into Lithuania’s tech hub seeking to promote IT education nationwide. After finishing her studies she landed in Berlin’s tech scene and began working with 200+ dev teams across Europe analysing their processes and helping to improve workflows. During this period Domile became fascinated by the struggles that tech teams face working with cloud technologies. She envisioned building a product that helps developers optimize their workflows and reduce cognitive load. In 2018 she joined Humanitec in its early stages and currently she is working on an Internal Developer Platform which is pushing the industry to live in a “you-build-it, you-run-it” mindset. Chris Stephenson Chris Stephenson is VP of Product at Humanitec. He has worked in Engineering or Product across industries as diverse as Waste Management, HR-tech and Insurance but in recent years has been focusing on building platforms that enable development teams to implement and quickly scale applications. This has included running the High Performance Computing Group at Lloyd’s of London focusing on designing and implementing a platform to allow Engineers and Actuaries to quickly iterate on internal models at Lloyd’s of London, building a platform to allow for very fast development of “Partner Front-End” applications at Google (think the partner facing admin interfaces for Google Transit search or managing inventory for Google Play Movies) and currently at Humanitec building an Internal Developer Platform that can be used by all engineering teams to speed up their development of Cloud Native Apps. Cool things of the week Showing the C++ developer love with new client libraries blog New GCP Essentials video “GCP vs. Firebase — Part 1” blog GCPodcast Episode 180: Firebase with Jen Person podcast Here to serve Korea’s businesses with a new GCP region in Seoul blog Interview Humanitec site CNCF site GKE site Cloud SQL site Weaveworks site Harness site Question of the week How do you prevent exposing API keys in source code? Where can you find us next? Mark will be traveling and working on a video series for the Google Cloud YouTube Channel. Jon will be at GDC in March.

Aja Hammerly and Brian Dorsey are here this week to start off a new year of podcasts! In an interview with Google Developer Advocate Katie McLaughlin, we talk about the advantages of Python 3 and why version 2 has been retired, as well as the cool things you can do with Django. Later, Katie discusses the complexities of deployment and how she makes it work smoothly with GCP, and we have some fun with emojis! Katie McLaughlin Katie has worn many different hats over the years. She is currently a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, and a Director of the Python Software Foundation. When she’s not changing the world, she enjoys making tapestries, cooking, and seeing just how well various application stacks handle emoji. Cool things of the week Running workloads on dedicated hardware just got better blog Container security summit is going on as we record this site Easily upgrade Windows Server 2008 R2 while migrating to Google Cloud blog Launch of the BigQuery Weekly Data Challenge! site New data engineering learning path site Interview Python Software Foundation site PyCascades site Django Demo site Emojipedia site App Engine site Compute Engine site Cloud Run site Cloud Build site Secrets Manager site Kakapo Mountain Parrot site The Power ⚡️ and Responsibility 😓 of Unicode Adoption ✨ video Question of the week I need to run something later, but Cron isn’t a good fit. What do I do? Where can you find us next? We’ll be at Cloud Next in San Francisco in April! Katie will also be at PyCon US in April! Sound Effects Attribution “African Gray” by Jmagiera of Freesound.org

Hosts new and old gather together for this special episode of the podcast! We’ll talk about our favorite episodes of the year, the coolest things from 2019, and wrap up another great year together doing what we love! Happy Holidays to all of our listeners, and we’ll see you in the new year! Top episodes of the year GCP Podcast Episode 173: Cloud Run with Steren Giannini and Ryan Gregg podcast GCP Podcast Episode 165: Python with Dustin Ingram podcast GCP Podcast Episode 175: MongoDB with Andrew Davidson podcast GCP Podcast Episode 160: Knative with Mark Chmarny and Ville Aikas podcast GCP Podcast Episode 180: Firebase with Jen Person podcast GCP Podcast Episode 164: Node.js with Myles Borins podcast GCP Podcast Episode 174: Professional Services with Ann Wallace and Michael Wallman podcast GCP Podcast Episode 176: Human-Centered AI with Di Dang podcast GCP Podcast Episode 168: NVIDIA T4 with Ian Buck and Kari Briski podcast GCP Podcast Episode 163: Cloud SQL with Amy Krishnamohan podcast Favorite episodes of the year Mark Mirchandani’s Favorites: GCP Podcast Episode 193: Devoted Health and Data Science with Chris Albon podcast GCP Podcast Episode 177: Primer with John Bohannon podcast GCP Podcast Episode 202: Supersolid with Kami May podcast Mark Mandel’s Favorites: GCP Podcast Episode 186: Blockchain with Allen Day podcast GCP Podcast Episode 196: Phoenix Labs with Jesse Houston podcast Jon’s Favorites: GCP Podcast Episode 199: Data Visualization with Manuel Lima podcast GCP Podcast Episode 196: Phoenix Labs with Jesse Houston podcast GCP Podcast Episode 206: ML/AI with Zack Akil podcast GCP Podcast Episode 201: FACEIT with Maria Laura Scuri podcast Gabi’s Favorites: GCP Podcast Episode 199: Data Visualization with Manuel Lima podcast GCP Podcast Episode 167: World Pi Day with Emma Haruka Iwao podcast GCP Podcast Episode 206: ML/AI with Zack Akil podcast GCP Podcast Episode 198: SeMI Technologies with Laura Ham podcast Favorite things of the year Mark Mirchandani’s Favorites: Cloud Run Mark Mandel’s Favorites: Stadia Samurai Shodown available on Stadia All the new podcast hosts! Jon’s Favorites: First time doing the podcast at NEXT and it was quite the experience. Going to Nvidia offices to do an episode Getting to talk to guests in the gaming industry and hear how passionate they are about the things they are building Joining the podcast Podcast outtakes! Gabi’s Favorites: Visited a bunch of offices! Joining the podcast Cloud NEXT talk, where my demo failed but I recovered! Spreading the love and joy of databases Where can you find us next? Mark Mirch’ will be sleeping as much as possible! Mandel will be working on plans for Next, GDC, and I/O 2020! Gabi will be running away to warm weather for her winter vacation! Jon will be home! He’ll also be planning gaming content for next year and wrapping up this year with some deep dives into multiplayer games and some possible content! Sound Effects Attribution “Small Group Laugh 4, 5 & 6” by Tim.Kahn of Freesound.org “Incorrect” by RicherLandTV of Freesound.org “Correct” by Epon of Freesound.org “Fireworks 3 Bursts” by AtomWrath of Freesound.org “Jingle Romantic” by Jay_You of Freesound.org “Dark Cinematic” by Michael-DB of Freesound.org “Bossa Loop” by Reinsamba of Freesound.org