Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Francesc and Mark are joined this week by Lukas Karlsson from Broad Institute and Mike Altarace from Google Cloud Platform to discuss the Platinum Customer relationship with Google Cloud Platform. About Lukas Karlsson Lukas has been working at the Broad in various roles over the last fourteen years or so. He now run our cloud architecture and strategy and works in developer relations, advocating for the software developers who consume our services. About Mike Altarace Mike has been a Strategic Customer Engineer (SCE, pronounced Ski) assigned to the Broad Institute for over a year. He’s been working with Broad on all manners of operating their GCP environment. All is on the table, technical issues, billing, shared events, certifications. Cool things of the week Google Cloud Platform now open in London blog gdpr Container Engine now runs Kubernetes 1.7 to drive enterprise-ready secure hybrid workloads blog Marvin is a go-kit server for Google App Engine github Google Container Builder Part 1 (Cloud Rolling Update) youtube podcast Interview Broad Institute site Google Cloud Storages home docs Pre-emptible Virtual Machines site docs Google Cloud Platinum Support support Customer Reliability Engineers podcast Gaining full control over your organization’s cloud resources (Google Cloud Next ‘17) youtube Question of the week If I want to run a single node development Kubernetes cluster, and I don’t want to pay for a Network LoadBalancer as well - how do I expose services? NodePort Services docs Configure a static IP for a Ingress Service docs 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.

Due to popular demand, this week Francesc and Mark are joined by Product Manager Varun Talwar and Senior Staff Software Engineer Sven Mawson to discuss all things Istio, an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. About Varun Talwar Product Manager in Google Cloud; founding PM on @grpcio and @IstioMesh About Sven Mawson Software Engineer in Google Cloud; founder of @IstioMesh Cool things of the week gSlack: Integrating Google Cloud Platform with Slack blog Solution guide: Building connected vehicle apps with Cloud IoT Core blog solution Why did the Gopher spend so much at the drug store? punchline Super Mario Run Case Study youtube Interview Istio home page overview design goals OSI Network Model wikipedia Kubernetes sidecar containers blog Installing Istio docs Monitoring via Prometheus (podcast) and Grafana Envoy L7 proxy homepage Istio Ingress Controller docs Question of the week If I want to apply Istio to an existing Kubernetes application, how do I do it? Managing microservices with the Istio service mesh blog istioctl kube-inject docs Where can you find us next? Francesc will be at GopherCon in Denver. He also recently released the Go Tooling in Action workshop and a new justforfunc episode! Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York with Phoenix One Games in July, as well as TA’ing the Kubernetes Bootcamp. He also released the second blog post in his series about running Game Servers on Kubernetes.

Wendy Kan joins your co-hosts Francesc and Mark today to talk about Kaggle, their competitions, and the cool data sets available on their platform. Kaggle joined the Google family a few months ago, so it’s a great opportunity to know more about the platform and the amazing community behind it. About Wendy Kan Wendy is a data scientist at Kaggle, the largest global data science community. Wendy works with companies and organizations to transform their data into machine learning competitions and had launched over 50 competitions on various topics such as image classification, revenue prediction, GIS and satellite data, click through rate, customer categorization, and real estate prediction. She was a software engineer and researcher before joining Kaggle. She holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Cool things of the week Google App Engine standard now supports Java 8 announcement How SREs find the landmines in a service - CRE life lessons blog post How HBO’s Silicon Valley built “Not Hotdog” with mobile TensorFlow, Keras & React Native Hackernoon Interview Kaggle home page Kaggle Competitions list Kaggle Datasets list Tensorflow: An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence tensorflow.org Keras: The Python Deep Learning library keras.io Question of the week How do you do client side load balancing with gRPC and Kubernetes? Ray Tsang answers with a GitHub repo Where can you find us next? Francesc will be at GopherCon in Denver! Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York with Phoenix One Games in July.

If you have ever wanted to play with huge datasets - this is the episode for you! Partner Operations Manager Mike Hamberg and Program Manager Will Curran join your co-hosts Francesc and Mark to talk through all the public datasets that Google Cloud Platform hosts for you on BigQuery and Google Compute Storage. About Mike Hamberg Mike works on helping Google teams and partners take raw data from the web and make it look beautiful and usable in BigQuery (and other platforms like Merchant Center). About Will Curran Will is a program manager in Google Cloud, focused on Data and Analytics partners and passionate about improving access to the world’s datasets. One of the programs he manages is the Cloud Public Datasets program. Cool things of the week Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region - open now announcement locations Why We’re Moving to Google Cloud Platform blog Story of a successful migration to Google Cloud Platform blog Interview Public Datasets site bigquery BigQuery site Google Cloud Storage site Reddit BigQuery subreddit TIL BigQuery site Have a public dataset you want to make public, email gcp-public-data@google.com Question of the week I need better visualisation into my billing and product usage - what can I do? Visualize GCP Billing using BigQuery and Data Studio blog dashboard demo Where can you find us next? Francesc be running a workshop at QCon New York on Go tooling based on this video, after that he’ll be at GopherCon in Denver! Mark will be hosting the Playcrafting Playtest Night in San Francisco and speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York with in July.

It’s all about open source monitoring this week, as Prometheus Co-Founder Julius Volz, joins your co-hosts Francesc and Mark to talk all about Prometheus. Where it came from, why it was built and why you should use it. About Julius Volz Julius co-founded the Prometheus monitoring system and lead the project to success at SoundCloud and beyond. He now focuses on growing the Prometheus community and is the main organizer of PromCon, the first conference around Prometheus. In a previous life, Julius was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. Cool things of the week New Singapore GCP region – open now blog locations Training an object detector using Cloud Machine Learning Engine blog Preparing a Container Engine Environment for Production solution Interview Prometheus homepage github Prometheus Overview youtube media Prometheus Query Language docs Grafana homepage docs Prometheus Client Libraries docs Installing Prometheus on Kubernetes helm operator Cortex, a Open source, horizontally scalable Prometheus as a service github Prometheus Federation docs Prometheus Conference, PromCon 2017 site Question of the week I didn’t put enough log statements in my application, and now things are broken. Help!? Using Debug Logpoints docs youtube Where can you find us next? Francesc just released a new #justforfunc episode where he builds a Twitter bot that runs for free on GCP. He will be running a workshop at QCon New York on Go tooling based on this video, after that he’ll be at GopherCon in Denver! Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York in July.

Cloud Dataflow and its OSS counterpart Apache Beam are amazing tools for Big Data. So today your co-hosts Francesc and Mark interview Frances Perry, the Tech Lead and PMC for those projects, to join us and tell us more about it. About Frances Perry Frances Perry is a software engineer who likes to make big data processing easy, intuitive, and efficient. After many years working on Google’s internal data processing stack, she joined the Cloud Dataflow team to make this technology available to external cloud customers. She led the early work on Dataflow’s unified batch/streaming programming model and is now on the PMC for Apache Beam. Cool things of the week Rewriting moviegolf.com Medium App Engine users, now you can configure custom domains from the API or CLI announcement Join the gRPC/Istio community day June 26th at Google Sunnyvale twitter Interview Cloud Dataflow homepage Apache Beam homepage Java SDK Quickstart docs Python SDK Quickstart docs Cloud Dataflow, Apache Beam and you announcement Question of the week How can I connect all the instances in a Managed Instance Group to CloudSQL securely? 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 new #justforfunc episode where he explains how to use cgo. He will be running a workshop at QCon New York on Go tooling based on this video, after that he’ll be at GopherCon in Denver! Mark is still on vacation - but don’t worry, he’ll be back soon!

Yesterday Spinnaker reached its version 1.0, today Francesc and Mark talk to Steven Kim and Christopher Sanson about it! Spinnaker is an open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform used in production at companies like Netflix, Waze, Target, and Cloudera, plus a new open-source command line interface (CLI) tool called halyard that makes it easy to deploy Spinnaker itself About Steven Kim Steven Kim is an engineering manager at Google based in New York City, focused on build and delivery systems. Prior to Google, Steven ran engineering teams at DreamWorks Animation, and was a part of the technical leadership in new initiatives at the studio. About Christopher Sanson Christopher Sanson is the Product Manager for Cloud Container Builder, Spinnaker, and Cloud CICD at Google. Prior to joining Google he ran his own software development company, building web and mobile apps for companies from startups to the Fortune 100. Cool things of the week Coolest features of Google Container Builder blog post by Ahmet Alp Balkan Know thy enemy: how to prioritize and communicate risks - CRE life lessons blog post #72 Customer Reliability Engineering with Luke Stone gcppodcast Sherol Chen’s page on Machine Learning Eliza Effect Interview Spinnaker spinnaker.io Spinnaker 1.0: a continuous delivery platform for cloud announcement Release Engineering chapter of the SRE book Deploying the Netflix API Netflix Tech Blog Spinnaker on Google Cloud Deployment Manager Spinnaker Meetup in San Francisco meetup.com Join the Spinnaker Channel on Slack join.spinnaker.io Question of the week Could you clarify the pricing model for Google Cloud Source Repositories? Cloud Source Repositories Pricing and Quota Where can you find us next? Francesc will be running a workshop at QCon New York on Go tooling based on this video, after that he’ll be at GopherCon in Denver! Mark is going on vacation for a few weeks - but

In this episode Mark and Francesc enter the land of Continuous Integration, chatting with David Bendory and Christopher Sanson all about Container Builder. About David Bendory David Bendory is the Tech Lead for Google Cloud Container Builder. He joined Google on the Container Builder team in April 2015 after more than 20 years in software engineering on Wall Street. About Christopher Sanson Christopher Sanson is the Product Manager for Cloud Container Builder, Spinnaker, and Cloud CICD at Google. Prior to joining Google he ran his own software development company, building web and mobile apps for companies from startups to the Fortune 100. Cool things of the week Istio announcement blog Cloud Source Repositories: now GA and free for up to five users and 50GB of storage announcement product Kelsey Hightower - Keynote - Pycon 2017 youtube Interview Container Builder product docs Google Cloud Container Builder: a fast and flexible way to package your software blog Building lean containers using Google Cloud Container Builder blog gcloud container builds submit docs Container Builder: Build Steps docs github Container Builder: Build Triggers docs Container Builder: Free Tier pricing Container Builder: Querying Build History docs Container Builder: Tracking Build Updates Using Cloud Pub/Sub docs Contact the Container Builder team: email, stackoverflow, #cloudbuild channel slack. Follow up Spinnaker episode will be out next week Question of the week How do I make sure that my Compute Engine instances start quickly so that I can autoscale quickly? GCE Startup Scripts docs Improving GCE boot times with custom images blog Where can you find us next? Francesc released a new Just For Func Episode, and will be teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires (here are the North American locations) and running a workshop at QCon New York Mark is going on vacation for a few weeks - but don’t worry, he’ll still be on the podcast!

Fresh from Google I/O, Mark and Francesc are joined by the co-founders of Firebase, James Tamplin and Andrew Lee to let us in on all the new and awesome things that were announced! About James Tamplin James Tamplin is a co-founder of Firebase, and served as CEO until joining Google. He is now a Group Product Manager working on Firebase. James has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a stage actor in New York, an improv comic, and has worked on two previous startups. About Andrew Lee Andrew co-founded Firebase in 2011 and served as CTO until Firebase joined Google. He is now an engineering lead for Firebase, focusing on infrastructure products including the Realtime Database, Hosting, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Storage. Andrew lives and works in San Francisco. Cool things of the week Build and train machine learning models on our new Google Cloud TPUs announcement product research Introducing Google Cloud IoT Core: for securely connecting and managing IoT devices at scale announcement product Interview Firebase What’s new from Firebase at Google I/O 2017 blog Previous episodes on Firebase Episode #29 Episode #13 Firebase Phone Authentication web android ios Firebase Hosting and Cloud Functions docs Build Modern Apps with Firebase and Google Cloud Platform (Google I/O ‘17) youtube Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs announcement github Firebase performance monitoring site docs Firebase SDKs for Unity and C++ Firebase Test Lab for Games docs Google Analytics for Firebase docs Android Instance Apps site Try Google BigQuery today: Now with 10GB of free storage announcement Firebase Analytics Stream and Debug View announcement stream debug Firebase at Google I/O 2017 presentations Question of the week How do I give one of my Google Cloud Platform Project’s to another person? Understanding Roles in IAM docs Create, modify, or close your billing account help Where can you find us next? Francesc will be teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires and running a workshop at QCon New York Mark is going on vacation for a few weeks - but don’t worry, he’ll still be on the podcast!

Basecamp Networks uses Machine Learning to diagnose easily what kind of sickness or parasite a crop might be suffering. They’re powered by Google Cloud Platform, and their CEO, Craig Ganssle, is here to tell Mark and Francesc all about it. About Craig Ganssle Craig Ganssle is the Founder and CEO of Basecamp Networks. With over 20 years in the technology industry, Craig has extensive experience developing and deploying wireless networks and designing predictive learning solutions for complex problem solving. Craig started Basecamp Networks in 2007 providing global wireless network infrastructures as well as creative solutions for difficult and time-consuming IT issues. As a partner with Google since 2008, Craig was one of the original Glass Explorers, Google’s original beta test group. In early 2013, Craig advanced to an elite small team for this innovative technology. Since then, under his leadership and Basecamp’s agricultural focus, Craig’s vision for Glass led his team to develop intelliSCOUT®, the world’s first wearable application offering farmers a truly hands-free solution, enabling agricultural problem-solving by collecting actionable insights from the field in a fraction of the time. intelliSCOUT® technology has been demonstrated, in conjunction with the Basecamp Networks’ offering, to dignitaries throughout the world, including France, where Craig was personally requested to present this technology to President Francois Hollande. In October 2016 Craig and Basecamp won the Atlanta Telecom Partnership (ATP) Technology Service Provider of The Year Award (in addition to his achievements in agricultural technological advancements). Prior to founding Basecamp Networks, Craig was recruited by Verizon Wireless in 2001 where he oversaw U.S. Southeast Operations in the network engineering division and was later tasked with deploying LTE in the Southeast United States. Craig’s advanced innovative solutions are currently in use across Verizon’s entire company footprint today. During this time Craig also received a bachelor’s degree from Muhlenberg College in Business Administration, and a Computer Science degree from AIU. In addition to his contributions in the public sector, Craig served honorably in the United States Marine Corps as an intelligence communications operator with the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) 2nd Force Recon Battalion. He was later assigned as a detached “special operator” under the Department of the Navy, to Naval Special Warfare Unit S.E.A.L. Teams as a “joint operator” before being honorably discharged in 2001 for medical reasons. During his six years of service, Craig was highly decorated with various commendations and medals for his service and valor. Craig is very active in mission work with his church that includes providing internet services in rural and remote locations globally. Basecamp Networks is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA where Craig resides with his wife and children. Cool things of the week Google Cloud Platform launches Northern Virginia region announcement. Compute Engine machine types with up to 64 vCPUs now ready for your production workloads announcement. Listen to Episode #41 Descartes Labs with Tim Kelton. Terraforming the Google Cloud alexander.holbreich.org. Interview Basecamp Networks OpenCV: Open Computer Vision opencv.org Tensorflow: An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence tensorflow.org Lagom: The Opinionated Microservices Framework for moving away from the Monolith lagomframework.com intelliSCOUT: a product of Basecamp Networks intelliscout.io Question of the week How can I learn machine learning for free? Follow this courses: Machine Learning by Stanford University coursera Deep Learning by Google Udacity CS 20SI: Tensorflow for Deep Learning Research Stanford And more: Google Machine Learning Engine and episode gcppodcast #71 Tensorflow with Eli Bixby gcppodcast #31 Announcing general availability of GPUs for Cloud Machine Learning Engine announcement Where can you find us next? Francesc presented at Gopherfest and the video is already out there! Next he’ll be teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires and running a workshop at QCon New York Mark is currently at Nordic Games Conference, and while he won’t be there, if people are in San Francisco they should head over to the Playcrafting & Extra Life 24 Hour Game Fest where we are raising money for the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals.