Google Cloud Platform 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.

This week Mark and Francesc have an in depth chat with Daniel Smith about the recent Kubernetes 1.6 release and all the amazing new features found therein. About Daniel Smith Currently TL of the API Machinery sub-team, Daniel has been working on Kubernetes since before it was open sourced, and contributed enough in the early days that he's still one of the top contributors overall. Before that, Daniel worked on Borg and briefly on AppEngine. He lives in Mountain View with his wife and two children. Cool things of the week Cloud OnBoard (North America) free training events site IPv6 Termination for HTTP(S), SSL Proxy, and TCP Proxy Load Balancing docs Putting gRPC multi-language support to the test blog gRPC with Varun Talwar podcast gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips podcast Simon Says with Sandeep Dinesh podcast Interview Kubernetes site Kubernetes 1.6: Multi-user, Multi-workloads at Scale blog Five Days of Kubernetes 1.6 blog Go client for Kubernetes github etcd github Kubernetes Federation docs Kubernetes Role Based Access Control (RBAC) blog docs Kubernetes Assigning Pods to Nodes docs Advanced Scheduling in Kubernetes blog Kubernetes Custom Schedulers docs Dynamic Provisioning and Storage Classes in Kubernetes blog docs Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface blog Kubernetes scheduling GPUs docs Question of the week Q: Francesc and Mark discuss "What is the first thing you do when creating a Google Cloud Platform project?" Google Cloud Platform Console site gcloud init docs gcloud configuration docs Identity and Access Control - Adding Owners docs Cloud Abuse with Swati Kulshreshth and Emeka Okonkwo podcast Google Cloud Platform Support with Terrance Shepherd podcast Where can you find us next? Francesc will be presenting at 2017 Gopherfest in San Francisco, teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires and running a workshop at QCon New York Mark is going to be in Sweden for 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.

In this episode Mark and Francesc have a great interview with Chen Goldberg, the Engineering Director for Container Engine and Kubernetes at Google - discussing all about why Kubernetes is open source and the integrations that Google Container Engine has with the wider Google Cloud Platform. About Chen Goldberg Chen leads the Container Engine and OSS Kubernetes project engineering team in Google Cloud. Chen is a technology leader with +18 years of demonstrated expertise leading global engineering teams, product R&D initiatives, and high-profile customer engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises. Chen has a customer-centered development philosophy and believes open source is the best way to innovate and develop incredible technologies that are accessible and beneficial to everyone. Cool things of the week New Singapore Region locations docs HTTP(S) Load Balancer supports WebSockets natively tweet docs Interview Container Engine site docs Google Container Engine - The easiest way to use containers in production youtube Installing Kubernetes on Linux with kubeadm docs Kubernetes 1.6 announcement Creating a Container Engine Cluster docs Upgrading a Container Cluster docs KubeCon Keynote youtube Scalability updates in Kubernetes 1.6: 5,000 node and 150,000 pod clusters blog RBAC support for Kubernetes blog docs Kubernetes Community github Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes podcast Helm github Special Interest Group List github Container Engine Question of the week Q: If I need to access an external private git repository from within Container Builder, how do I do that? Cloud Builder docs Google Cloud Source Repositories site docs Google Cloud Storage site docs Where can you find us next? Mark is going to be hosting the Playcrafting + Extra Life Game Jame & Game Fest, raising money for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Finally he'll be in Sweden for Nordic Games Conference as well. Francesc will be presenting at the 2017 Gopherfest in San Francisco! Francesc has also released a new Just for Func episode, doing a code review of an IRC package's API.

Have you ever wanted to apply Cloud Vision API to videos? Well, Sara Robinson is here to tell your co-hosts Mark and Francesc about Cloud Video Intelligence API, which allows you to do that and much more. About Sara Robinson Sara is a Developer Advocate on Google's Cloud Platform team, focusing on big data and machine learning. She helps developers build awesome apps through demos, online content, and events. Sara has a bachelor's degree in Business and International Studies from Brandeis University. When she's not programming she can be found on a spin bike, listening to the Hamilton soundtrack, or finding the best ice cream in New York. Cool things of the week Getting started with Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy blog post Distributed tracing for Go blog post 220,000 cores and counting: MIT math professor breaks record for largest ever Compute Engine job blog post Interview Announcing Google Cloud Video Intelligence API, and more Cloud Machine Learning updates announcement Cloud Video Intelligence API docs Cloud Next Video Intelligence API demo recording YouTube blog post Hackernoon source code GitHub Users we mentioned: Cantemo Wix Media Platform Tensorflow: An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence docs Cloud Video Intelligence API Question of the week Q: What is the recommended strategy for backups and restores on VMs Creating Persistent Disk Snapshots docs Google Cloud Storage Nearline docs How to Design a Disaster Recovery Plan solution Where can you find us next? Mark is going to be hosting the Playcrafting + Extra Life Game Jame & Game Fest, raising money for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Finally he'll be in Sweden for Nordic Games Conference as well. He also recently published a blog post on Scaling Dedicated Game Servers with Kubernetes: Part 1 – Containerising and Deploying. Francesc will be presenting at the New York Google Developer Group for a Serverless event! Francesc has also released a new Just for Func episode, covering the implementation of the Context package!

This week, Mark and Francesc get a chance to talk directly to the Director of Customer Reliability Engineering himself, Luke Stone, all about CRE - where it came from, what it's goals are, and how it's been working with some big customers at Google Cloud Platform. About Luke Stone Luke is defining the customer experience of Google's new Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team. When he joined Google in 2002 he was the first technical support engineer for AdSense. He ran software engineering teams and started building on Google App Engine in 2009. Recently, he led the technical support team for Google Cloud Platform before becoming a founding member of the CRE team. Before Google, Luke was a system administrator and developer in academic and non-profit organizations, and studied computer science at Stanford. Cool things of the week Google Cloud announces Machine Learning Startup Competition blog Quantifying the performance of the TPU, our first machine learning chip blog DeepBreath: Preventing angry emails with machine learning blog github Interview Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog All the CRE blog posts blog Site Reliability Engineering book Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure chapter Question of the week Rokesh Jankie returns this week, with another question: What does it mean to have 99.99% availability. That's not 100%, what does it mean for customers who have mission critical applications? SRE II with Paul Newson podcast High Availability wikipedia Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes podcast Where can you find us next? Mark is going to be at and then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector in April. He's also going to be hosting the Playcrafting + Extra Life Game Jame & Game Fest, raising money for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Finally he'll be in Sweden for Nordic Games Conference as well. Francesc will be presenting at Gophercon China in April, and will then be at the New York Google Developer Group for a Serverless event! Francesc has also released a new Just for Func episode, covering the Context package!

One of our dear Developer Advocates, Yufeng Guo, joins your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, to talk about the Cloud Machine Learning Engine. Cloud Machine Learning Engine offers a managed platform for training and serving Tensorflow models. About Yufeng Guo Yufeng is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, where he is trying to make machine learning more understandable and usable for all. He enjoys hearing about new and interesting applications of machine learning, share your use case with him on Twitter @YufengG. Cool things of the week Kubernetes 1.6: Kubernetes 1.6: Multi-user, Multi-workloads at Scale blog post Five Days of Kubernetes 1.6 blog post Recapping Google Next '17 by Kalev Leetaru: Deep Learning As A Service Forbes Making Security Forbes The Great Cloud Shift From Renting Hardware To Services And Experts Forbes Interview Tensorflow homepage On-device machine learning: TensorFlow on Android (Google Cloud Next '17) YouTube TensorFlow and Deep Learning without a PhD part 1 and part 2 Cloud Machine Learning Engine docs Huggable or not? Build smart applications with your new superpower: cloud machine learning YouTube Kaggle homepage Cloud Machine Learning Engine has a cool logo Question of the week What are API keys and when should I use them? Why and When to use API Keys docs Where can you find us next? Mark is at Vancouver Unity Games Meetup and on Thursday he'll be at Polyglot Vancouver Meetup, then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector in April. Francesc will be presenting at Gophercon China in April, and will then head off to New York! Then he'll be back to San Francisco for GopherFest.

Digging back into our archive of interviews from Google Cloud Next, Mark and Francesc talk to Brad Rydzewski, creator of Drone, about the open source continuous integration and delivery platform. We are also excited to have the amazing Jessie Frazelle joining us as well! About Brad Rydzewksi Brad Rydzewski is the creator of the open source Drone project, which provides container based continuous delivery. About Jessie Frazelle Jessie Frazelle is also part of the Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocacy team, and is generally known as "That container girl", and is an avid "Door to door leenuux salesperson." Cool things of the week Announcing general availability of Google Cloud Dataflow for Python blog Google Cloud Platform for Data Scientists: Using R with Google Cloud SQL for MySQL blog Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: Managed PostgreSQL for your mobile and geospatial applications in Google Cloud blog Interview Drone homepage github Drone on Container Engine github Kubernetes Namespaces docs Docker compose docs Drone Plugins site http://try.drone.io/ Question of the week This questions of the week comes from Rokesh Jankie: What is protocol buffers, and why should we all start using it? Protocol Buffers site gRPC previously on the podcast episode 15 episode 43 FlatBuffers site Where can you find us next? Mark will be heading to Vancouver Unity Games Meetup and Polyglot Vancouver Meetup, and then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector in April. Francesc will be presenting at Gophercon China in April, and will then head off to New York!

The CEO and founder of Server Density, David Mytton, joins the podcast today to tell your co-hosts Mark and Francesc about their experience migrating from on-premise MongoDB to Cloud Bigtable. Server Density provides an open source logging and monitoring solution running on Google Cloud Platform. About David Mytton David Mytton is founder and CEO of Server Density, a scalable infrastructure monitoring software company. He built the original version of the product and founded the HumanOps community to discuss and share how to improve the human aspects of running infrastructure following experiences being on-call 24⁄7 for the first few years of the company. Cool things of the week TensorFlow and Deep Learning without a PhD part 1 and part 2 Discover and redact sensitive data with the Data Loss Prevention API blog Digging deep on PHP 7.1 for Google App Engine Interview Server Density homepage Mongo DB homepage Google Cloud Bigtable docs OpenTSDB: The Scalable Time Series Database docs Google Container Engine docs Apache Kafka project Designing your Bigtable schema docs HumanOps community Bigtable in action (Google Cloud Next '17) YouTube Question of the week What region should I use to optimize access from where I am? GCPing Google Cloud Load Balancing docs Where can you find us next? Mark will be heading to Polyglot Vancouver Meetup in April, and then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector Francesc just released the last episode of the Flappy Gopher miniseries of JustForFunc, and then will be presenting at Gophercon China in April.

This week brings us back to an interview that we did while at Cloud Next last week. Mark and Francesc talk to William Bonnell, Senior Director of SRE at The Home Depot all about SRE culture, and the CRE team as well. About William Bonnell William Bonnell is Senior Director of Site Reliability Engineering at The Home Depot - managing the e-commerce and order management systems, support millions of customers per day! Cool things of the week 100 announcements (!) from Google Cloud Next '17 blog Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) for Google Cloud Platform (Beta) site Cloud.google.com/community site Cloud SQL for Postgre SQL (Beta) site 64 Core machines + more memory blog A new issue tracker for Google Cloud Platform blog Happy Pi Day! site Interviews 24⁄7 resiliency (Google Cloud Next '17) youtube Smart, Secure, and Modern app delivery for enterprises and cloud-natives (Google Cloud Next '17) youtube Building Microservices book Production-Ready Microservices book Site Reliability Engineering book Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog Managed Instance Groups docs Question of the week Why should I be using Cloud Spanner, rather than Cloud SQL? (Thanks AJ!) What's the difference between Google Cloud Spanner and Cloud SQL? quora Cloud Spanner docs Cloud Spanner Pricing docs Where can you find us next? Mark will be heading to Polyglot Vancouver Meetup in April, and then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector Francesc will be presenting at Gophercon China in April.

It is the last day of Google Cloud Next 2017 and we got two amazing interviews for you: Titan chips, head of Marketing, and head of Solution Architects, and more in a single episode! One more day, Francesc and Mark are back with a daily episode from Google Cloud Next! Today we interview some of the many Google Cloud Partners attending the conference. Daily Highlights Full Day 3 Keynote 100 announcements (!) from Google Cloud Next '17 Interviews Cornelius and Neal Cornelius Willis is the Head of Marketing for Google Cloud Platform, and Neal Mueller is a Product Marketing Lead also at Google Cloud Platform. They joined us today to tell us more about Titan, a new Trusted Platform Module designed by Google and for Google Cloud Platform, and a very fancy jewelry accessory! Watch Urs Hölzle talk about his earring/Trusted Platform Module here. Miles Ward Miles Ward is the Global Head of Solutions at Google Cloud Platform, and he joins us to share his Cloud Next experience and that of some of the many customers he got to interact with. You can find all of our Google Cloud Platform Solutions at cloud.google.com/solutions. More about Cloud Next This is the last episode of Google Cloud Next, but you can find a great amount of content on the Google Cloud YouTube Channel.