Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Avere provides high performance file system solutions for hybrid cloud infrastructures, and is partner for Google Cloud Platform. To tell you all about it Francesc and Mark are joined by Scott Jeschonek, Director of Cloud Products at Avere, and Dave Elliott, Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform. About Scott Jeschonek Scott Jeschonek is Director of Cloud Products at Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud. Scott has spent his past 20 years synthesizing his enterprise, telecommunications and vendor experience together to provide a unique perspective to the implications of the cloud phenomenon. About Dave Elliott Dave Elliott is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform. In this role he engages communities to inspire them to try new products and technologies, embrace new ideas, and he is the voice of those communities to product and engineering teams. Prior to Google, Elliott was a Chief Cloud Evangelist at Symantec where he advocated for new architectures in data and storage. Mr. Elliott was an early advocate of cloud computing while at Sun Microsystems in the 1990s and has spent his career helping companies understand and embrace emerging technologies. Prior to Symantec, Elliott served as GM Americas at Arkeia Software, an innovator in data protection for virtual and cloud environments. Earlier, Mr. Elliott was responsible for Strategic Development for Iomega Corporation’s PSS Business Unit, and held positions at Blue Martini Software and with management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. Mr. Elliott holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and an BA in Quantitative Economics & Decision Sciences from the University of California, San Diego. Cool things of the week GCP arrives in South America with launch of São Paulo region! announcement Announcing IPv6 global load balancing GA announcement Read between the lines with Cloud Natural Language’s new recognition features blog Classifying text content with the Natural Language API big data blog Google Cloud Dataprep is now a public beta big data blog Interview Avere Systems Subnetworks docs Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network Overview docs #40 Rodeo FX with Alan Fregtman GlusterFS gluster.org averesystems.com Question of the week Container Builder seems pretty cool … but how do I get started? Google Cloud Container Builder Documentation #79 Container Builder with Christopher Sanson and David Bendory Google Container Builder youtube series by Carter Morgan Google Container Builder, Part 1 (Cloud Rolling Update) Google Container Builder, Part 2: Multi-Step Builds (Cloud Rolling Update) Where can you find us next? Francesc will is presenting at Google Cloud Summit in Chicago today and just released a new #justforfunc episode on justforfunc #20: code reviewing ursho (part 1). In October, he’ll be presenting at Velocity London, Google Cloud Summit Paris and Devfest Nantes Mark is attending Strangeloop. He is also heading to Australia in October for GDG Devfest Melbourne and Game Connect Asia Pacific and will be hanging out at Unite Melbourne and PAX Australia.

Sourcegraph provides navigation tools for source code, and it’s powered by Go and Google Cloud Platform. Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder, joins your co-hosts Francesc and Mark to discuss how they built their features on top of our infrastructure. About Quinn Slack Quinn Slack is CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, code intelligence software that lets software teams ship better and faster. Prior to Sourcegraph, Quinn co-founded Blend, an enterprise technology company with over 150 employees dedicated to improving home lending. His long-term goal is to build the products and infrastructure to support the future world where billions of people have coding fluency (just as billions of people today can read and write). Cool things of the week Introducing managed SSL for Google App Engine announcement With Forseti, Spotify and Google release GCP security tools to open source community announcement Global Kubernetes in 3 Steps on GCP medium by Christopher Grant Interview Sourcegraph Sourcegraph source code GitHub Google Container Engine Helm GitHub GCPPodcast #50 Helm with Michelle Noorali and Matthew Butcher sourcegraph.com Question of the week How can I automatically redact Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or other sensitive information? Data Loss Prevention API docs Demo of Data Loss Prevention at Cloud Summit Sydney YouTube Where can you find us next? Francesc will be presenting at Google Cloud Summit in Chicago next week. In October, he’ll be presenting at Velocity London, Google Cloud Summit Paris and Devfest Nantes Mark is attending Strangeloop in September. He is also heading to Australia in October for GDG Devfest Melbourne and Game Connect Asia Pacific and will be hanging out at Unite Melbourne and PAX Australia.

Have you ever wanted to know what powers BigQuery under the hood? Tino Tereshko and Jordan Tigani sit in front of the microphone with co-hosts Mark and Francesc to talk all about it! About Tino Tereshko Tino is the Big Data Lead for Office of the CTO at Google Cloud, focusing on building strategic relationships with the world’s top Enterprises in the interest of sharing and accelerating technological innovation. Tino hails from the BigQuery team, where he solved difficult cloud-native product problems, enabled Googlers and customers, and built programs like BigQuery Pacific. In earlier years Tino held various positions of leadership in several Silicon Valley startups, and could be found working as a quant developer on the floor of the Chicago Board of Equities at a boutique market making firm. Tino holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from University of California - Davis. When not at work, you can usually find him playing beach volleyball, cycling, skiing, paddle boarding, or enjoying a nice glass of wine. About Jordan Tigani Jordan was one of the founding engineers on Google BigQuery, wrote the first book on the subject, and is now the engineering lead of the product. Before Google, he worked at a number of star-crossed startups, and also spent time at Microsoft in the Windows kernel team and MSR. Cool things of the week This week in Google Cloud Platform medium This week in Google Cloud — “Premium and Standard networking tiers, NYT Games on App Engine, Puppet for GCP, and a firewall for App Engine” blog Creating a GCP type provider in 6 (well 7) easy steps blog Aja Hammerly’s Battleship blog series Interview BigQuery site docs BigQuery under the hood blog Dremel paper Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes podcast Question of the week I want to talk to to my phone like it’s J.A.R.V.I.S. and make it do things. How can I build a bot to do this? Cloud Speech API site docs Cloud Natural Language Processing API site docs API.AI site docs Intents docs Go library github BigQuery Where can you find us next? Francesc will be presenting at Google Cloud Summit in Sydney and Google Cloud Summit in Chicago in September. In October, he’ll be presenting at Velocity London, Google Cloud Summit Paris and Devfest Nantes Mark is speaking at Austin Game Conference and attending Strangeloop in September. He is also heading to Australia in October for GDG Devfest Melbourne and Game Connect Asia Pacific and will be hanging out at Unite Melbourne and PAX Australia.

What is the difference between AI and ML? Melanie Warrick joins your co-hosts Mark and Francesc to discuss the differences and what applications it can have. About Melanie Warrick Melanie is a Senior Developer Advocate at Google. Previous experience includes work as a founding engineer on Deeplearning4J as well as implementing machine learning in production at Change.org. Prior experience also covers business consulting and large enterprise technology implementations for a wide variety of companies. Over the last couple years, she’s spoken at many conferences about artificial intelligence, and her passions are working on machine learning problems at scale. Cool things of the week Announcing new Stackdriver Logging features and expanded free logs limits blog Preventing log waste with Stackdriver Logging blog How to build a conversational app using Cloud Machine Learning APIs, Part 3 blog Your next app might be a bot! Building conversational UX with API.AI youtube The canonical new book about stream processing announcement Quickdraw site github Interview Narrow AI wikipedia Quantum Computing wikipedia TensorFlow site DeepMind site Cloud Machine Learning Engine site Keras site Pytorch site Caffe site O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence (San Francisco) talk about reinforcement learning Strata Data Conference (New York) talk about AI Grace Hopper (Orlando) talk about AI Minds Mastering Machines (London) talk about AI Crunch (Budapest) talk about machine learning Question of the week What if you want you want to do an action whenever any Pod is created or destroyed on Kubernetes? Kubernetes Pod Watch API docs kubectl get command docs Where can you find us next? Francesc just released an episode of justforfunc last week on Go Type Aliases, and will be presenting at Google Cloud Summit in Sydney in September and then heading to Google Cloud Summit in Chicago. Mark is speaking at Gameacon and Austin Game Conference and attending Strangeloop once he’s done with all that. He is also heading to Australia in October for GDG Devfest Melbourne and Game Connect Asia Pacific as well.

Michael Will, Director of Technical Operations at Phoenix One Games, joins your co-hosts Mark and Francesc today to tell us about their migration from their own hardware to the cloud, how they did it, and what they learned from it. About Michael Will Michael is experienced in the design and deployment of high performance compute clusters both from hardware and software aspect with a parallel execution and solution architecture focus from IBM 390 running Linux to Penguin Computing commodity hardware for 10+ years, applying in the last 5 years to his passion for real time strategy gaming at Phoenix Age / Kabam / Phoenix One Games. Cool things of the week Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine New York Times blog Introducing Network Service Tiers: Your cloud network, your way GCP blog Titan in depth: Security in plaintext GCP blog Final Day at Cloud Next gcppodcast 67 Interview Google Compute Engine docs Gaming Solutions on Google Cloud Platform docs Google Cloud Storage docs Couchbase Google Cloud and Couchbase Server: Zero to Millions of Operations in No Time couchbase.com VERTICA database info Phoenix One Games Question of the week How to secure an App Engine application? App Engine login (required/admin in your app.yaml), only Google accounts. OAuth2: Firebase Authentication Auth0. Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy App Engine firewall (beta) Where can you find us next? Francesc just released another justforfunc episode on Go Type Aliases, and will be presenting at Google Cloud Summit in Sydney in September. Mark is entering crazy season, currently speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after. He’ll then be speaking at Gameacon and Austin Game Conference and attending Strangeloop once he’s done with all that.

In this week’s episode Mark and Francesc are joined by Amit Pande, Product Management Leader for Google Cloud to discuss how machine learning can automate the media and entertainment industry. About Amit Pande Amit Pande is a Product Management Leader for Google Cloud. In this role, Amit is responsible for working closely with leaders across Media and Entertainment Industry to help them envision and transform their business with Google Cloud, Big Data and Machine Learning. Amit is a veteran product manager with 6 years of experience leading several successful products across Google Search, Ads and Google Play product areas. Prior to joining Google, Amit worked in various product and engineering leadership roles at Microsoft for 8 years including on Xbox Video and Music. Amit holds a masters degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California. He lives in San Francisco with his wife. Cool things of the week Cloud Speech API improves longform audio recognition and adds 30 new language variants blog Guide to common Cloud Dataflow use-case patterns part 1 part 2 How to build a conversational app using Cloud Machine Learning APIs part 1 part 2 Interview Cloud Media solutions Cloud CDN site docs Cloud AI products Tensorflow site Cloud Machine Learning Engine site docs Cloud Natural Language API site docs Cloud Speech API site docs Cloud Video Intelligence API site docs IBC 2017 in Amsterdam - Sept 14th - 18th, 2017 MACHINE INTELLIGENCE COMES TO CONTENT CREATION - Organized by ETC in LA on Sept 27, 2017 Question of the week We have a new answer to the question from last week! Is there a way to access and administer Kubernetes from my phone? Thanks to Dylan Graham for a great answer! Cabin github iOS Where can you find us next? Francesc will be presenting at Google Cloud Summit in Sydney in September, Velocity London in October, dotGo in Paris and Gophercon Brazil, in November. Mark is will be presenting at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after. He’ll then be speaking at Gameacon and Austin Game Conference and attending Strangeloop once he’s done with all that.

Mark and Francesc welcome the incredible Greg DeMichillie into their studio this week, to talk all about Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO, and how it works with enterprise companies. About Greg DeMichillie Greg has 20 years experience in creating great computing platforms for developers and IT alike. He has been at Google since before the inception of Google Cloud Platform and as Director of Product he lead the product teams for App Engine, Compute Engine, Kubernetes & Container Engine, as well as the Developer Console, SDKs, and Billing system. He has delivered keynote presentations and product demos at events such as Google I/O and Google Cloud NEXT as well as interviews with the New York Times, Wall St Journal, and other publications. Prior to joining Google, he had leadership roles at variety of companies including Adobe and Amazon, as well as a decade at Microsoft where he was a developer on the first version of Visual C++, the development manager for Microsoft’s Java tools, and lead the product team for the creation of C#. Cool things of the week Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL updated with new extensions blog docs issue tracker discussion group Celebrating Six Months of Open Access, plus The Met on Google BigQuery blog Deploying Clojure applications to Google Cloud blog Announcing price cuts on Local SSDs for on-demand and preemptible instances blog Interview How the queen of Silicon Valley is helping Google go after Amazon’s most profitable business article Lush migrating to Google Cloud in 22 days blog Evernote migrating to Google Cloud blog Google Cloud Summit Sydney site Google Cloud Summit Paris site Google Cloud Summit Seattle site Google Cloud Summit Chicago site Google Cloud Summit Stockholm site Look out for more Summits in: Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangalore, Munich, and Sau Paulo Question of the week Is there a way to access the Kubernetes dashboard without running kubectl proxy? Such as, if I wanted to view or control my Kubernetes cluster from my phone? Kubernetes UI docs kubectl proxy docs Creating Authorized Networks for Master Access docs Google Cloud Shell site docs Where can you find us next? Francesc is going on holidays!!! But he just released a justforfunc episode on Contributing to the Go project, and will be presenting at Google Cloud Summit in Sydney in September. Mark is entering crazy season, and will be presenting at Play NYC, then speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after. He’ll then be speaking at Gameacon and Austin Game Conference and attending Strangeloop once he’s done with all that.

Today Francesc and Mark have the honor to be joined by Alim Jaffer and Mo Firouz from Heroic Labs to discuss their open source framework for social and realtime apps and games. About Alim Jaffer A member of the founding team, Alim joined Heroic Labs in 2016 as the VP of Product after having worked in startups focused in the games and health verticals. He is based in Vancouver, Canada and San Francisco. About Mo Firouz Mo cofounded Heroic Labs and is part of the core engineering team. Mo has worked on various products in Heroic Labs including the core Nakama server as well as Heroic Managed Cloud where he was primarily responsible for automating server provisioning and the monitoring stack with Kubernetes. Mo previously worked as a system architect in VisualDNA and built scalable big-data analytics systems, and prior to that built realtime high frequency trading systems. Cool things of the week CRE life lessons: What is a dark launch, and what does it do for me? blog post Cloud Dataproc is now even faster and easier to use for running Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop announcement Canary Deployments using Istio blog post Interview Heroic Labs heroiclabs.com Heroic Labs on GitHub repository Heroic Labs Documentation Google Container Engine CockroachDB Question of the week Accessing Cloud SQL instances from Cloud Functions? Use SQL Proxy, as for the Managed Instance Group, which we cover on episode 81. Connecting MySQL Client from Compute Engine About the Cloud SQL Proxy CloudSQL Proxy GitHub repo Where can you find us next? Francesc just released a justforfunc episode on Contributing to the Go project. He’ll be soon taking some well deserved holidays! Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.

Tim Hockin, one of the engineers that started the Kubernetes project, joins Francesc and Mark to talk about all of the cool stuff coming up with Kubernetes 1.7. About Tim Hockin Tim was one of the first engineers on Kubernetes and GKE, where he has been involved in things like networking, storage, node management, API, plugins, and more. Before Kubernetes, he worked on Google’s internal systems, Borg and Omega, mostly on the node management side, and on Google’s machine management, hardware bringup, and kernels. He has been contributing to open-source projects since 1995, when he first learned C. Cool things of the week Cloud Shell’s code editor now in beta announcement How App Engine helped power Super Mario Run blog post New hands-on labs for scientific data processing on Google Cloud Platform blog post Interview kubernetes.io is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes 1.7: Security Hardening, Stateful Application Updates and Extensibility blog post Kubernetes 1.7 release notes Kubernetes StatefulSets docs Kubernetes API Aggregation GitHub issue Extend the Kubernetes API with CustomResourceDefinitions docs Question of the week When should I use a pod and when a container? Tim Hockin’s slides are here. Where can you find us next? Francesc just released a justforfunc episode on Go Testing. He’ll be soon taking some well deserved holidays! Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.

Francesc and Mark are joined this week by Jonathan Cham, a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud Platform, to discuss what his job entails and how our customers can benefit from it. About Jonathan Cham Jonathan Cham is a customer engineer who helps customers be successful on the Google Cloud Platform. For 10 years, he has advised companies of all stages– from startups to Fortune 50 companies on cloud technologies and helping them accelerate the delivery of IT. He wants to help build your next successful billion dollar business on the Google Cloud Platform! In his free time, he is changing lots of diapers, not by choice, and preparing his 3 month son for the 2036 NBA draft. Cool things of the week Google not Amazon. Make fantastic savings in a server-less world blog post TCP BBR congestion control comes to GCP – your Internet just got faster GCP blog Google’s BBR Algorithm for Speeding up Internet Traffic Gains Wider Adoption bleepingcomputer.com Introducing Transfer Appliance: Sneakernet for the cloud era GCP blog Interview Contact Google Cloud Platform contact Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering announcement We’re hiring Strategic Customer Engineer Google Careers Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets Google Research Question of the week How can I attend GCP meetups without traveling? GCP Online Meetup: YouTube Channel Meetup Where can you find us next? Francesc will be at the July GoSF Meetup. Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.