Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Francesc and Mark are back again with our DAILY EPISODES from Cloud Next! Today we are bringing you interviews for a wide variety of speakers and attendees! Video Highlights Keynote Highlights in under 4 minutes! Full Day 1 Keynote Interviews Sara Robinson Sara Robinson is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform, and came to talk to us about her amazing keynote demo on The Google Cloud Video Intelligence API. Francesc also references this Total Eclipse of the Heart Literal Video. Sowmya Subramanian Sowmya Subramanian came to talk to us about her experience being Director of Engineering at YouTube, and the panel she was on Driving Success through Diversity & Inclusion: Lessons from Leaders in Technology. Tammy Bütow Tammy Bütow, SRE Manager at Dropbox visited our booth to talk about SRE culture at Dropbox, and to talk about all the exciting things she had seen at Cloud Next! Clare Bayley Clare Bayley, Global Codelabs Lead gave us the inside scoop on how you can Codelabs both at Next, and at home - without the need for a Google Cloud Platform account. Check it out at https://google.qwiklabs.com/catalog. More about Cloud Next You can watch the live stream! More daily episodes to come - stay tuned! Come find us on the ground floor at Moscone! https://twitter.com/tammybutow/status/839604540282290176

This week brings your hosts Francesc and Mark doing DAILY EPISODES from Cloud Next! Today’s episode brings interviews straight from the Cloud Next Community Summit! Interviews Kalev Leetaru Kalev Leetaru is the creator of the GDELT project, a global database of society, powered by Google Bigquery, Machine Learning APIs, and many other Google Cloud products. Tim Kelton Tim Kelton works at Descartes Labs and is here to show off his demo. Learn more about it on the blog post. Verónica López Verónica López joins us to talk about all the cool things she saw during the Community Summit and all the sessions she’s excited about day 1. More about Cloud Next You can watch the live stream! More daily episodes to come - stay tuned! Come find us on the ground floor at Moscone!

Following the saga of episodes on programming languages today your co-hosts, Francesc and Mark, have the honor to talk to Jon Wayne Parrott, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google Cloud Platform, about Python on the cloud. About Jon Wayne Jon Wayne focuses on the Python developer experience for Google Cloud Platform. He’s an active contributor to multiple open-source Python projects. Cool things of the week Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake blog GPUs are now available for Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning blog Developer Advocates offer up their favorite Google Cloud NEXT 17 sessions blog Interviews Python on Google Cloud Platform cloud.google.com/python Python on App Engine Standard Environment docs Python on App Engine Flexible Environment docs A skeleton for creating Python applications using the Flask framework on App Engine GitHub Question of the week Can I send emails as part of a Cloud Datastore transaction? No, but you can use Task Queues docs Where can you find us next? Mark is today at GDC and afterwards he’ll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco. Francesc is coming back from Gophercon India and on his way to Cloud NEXT.

On the heels of the Cloud Spanner launch, Deepti Srivastava joins your hosts Francesc and Mark on this week’s podcast to talk all about this globally distributed, horizontally scalable, relational database that also provides global consistency and ACID transactions! About Deepti Deepti Srivastava is passionate about technology and its ability to be a positive change enabler. As Product Manager for Cloud Spanner, on Google’s Cloud Platform, Srivastava works on best in class Cloud Databases and Storage technologies. Srivastava is an enthusiastic member of Women@Google and a passionate advocate of STEM education, especially for girls. She also enjoys dancing, snowboarding and all things fashion. Cool thing of the week Each Google Cloud Product described in 4 words or less tweet doc Google Cloud and YouTube-8M Challenge blog Interview Cloud Spanner site docs Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications blog Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem blog Quizlet Tests Cloud Spanner — The Most Sophisticated Cloud Database blog Don’t Give Up on Serializability Just Yet • Neha Nerula youtube CAP Theorom wikipedia Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database white paper Spanner, TrueTime and the CAP Theorem white paper Cloud Next: Cloud Spanner 101: Google’s mission-critical relational database schedule Cloud Next: Cloud Spanner 201: getting the most out of Cloud Spanner schedule Ben Sigelman will present Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database youtube Spanner: No-Compromise Relational Database Service Question of the week How do I run a mail server on the cloud? Sending Mail from a Virtual Machine docs Sending Email with SendGrid docs Sending Email with Mailgun docs Sending Email with Mailjet docs SMTP relay: Route outgoing non-Gmail messages through Google docs Were will we be? Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he’ll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco. Francesc will be at Gophercon India, at Cloud NEXT, and then Gopher China.

You might have heard about Improbable teaming up with Google Cloud, and you might want to know more about it. Well, this episode is for you! Rob Whitehead, CTO and co-founder of Improbable, joins the podcast to explain to your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, everything there is to know about Improbable, SpatialOS, and their relationship to Google Cloud Platform. About Rob Rob Whitehead co-founded Improbable in the summer of 2012 with a fellow Cambridge classmate, with the goal of creating a technology to digitally recreate and fully simulate the real and virtual worlds using the massive computational power of the cloud. In a previous life, he was an indie iOS developer, and an arms dealer in Second Life! Cool thing of the week Google Cloud Endpoints now generally available: a fast, scalable API gateway blog post Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications blog post Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem white paper Interview Google partners with Improbable to support next generation of video games blog post. Improbable improbable.io SpatialOS docs A collision of two fully customized ships flying through the procedurally generated and persistent universe of Worlds Adrift, a game developed on SpatialOS. Read about the game’s origin story and technical details of its physics. Join the SpatialOS Games Alpha here Running CoreOS Container Linux on Google Compute Engine CoreOS docs SpatialOS also use gRPC and Bazel. What we found when we simulated the backbone of the entire Internet on SpatialOS blog post Question of the week How can I resize a persistent disk? Adding or Resizing Persistent Disks docs Were will we be? Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he’ll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco. Francesc will speak tomorrow at the Go 1.8 release party in San Francisco. A bit later he’ll also be at Gophercon India.

Answering the call from last episode, Soam Vasani joins your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, today to tell them about Fission, a Function as a Service framework built on top of Kubernetes. About Soam Soam Vasani is a software engineer at Platform9 Systems Inc, where he works on the Fission framework. In the past he’s worked on distributed storage and other stuff at VMware. He’s interested in languages, tools and frameworks, and distributed systems. Cool thing of the week Highly Available Kubernetes Clusters blog post Continuous Delivery in a microservice infrastructure with Google Container Engine, Docker and Travis Medium Delivering a better platform for your SQL Server Enterprise workloads blog post Interview Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes blog post Kubernetes home page Fission: Serverless Functions for Kubernetes fission.io Fission’s code GitHub Fission examples GitHub Serverless Computing Wikipedia Question of the week Is there a way for me to secure my websocket connections on GCP? - TCP SSL Load Balancer docs - Deploying WebSockets cluster to GCP with Let’s Encrypt certificates Medium Were will we be? Mark just released a blog post on game development sessions at Cloud Next. Next he will be at GDC and afterwards he’ll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco. Francesc, who just released a new episode of #justforfunc and a demo for Go plugins, will speak at the Go 1.8 release party in San Francisco. A bit later he’ll also be at Gophercon India.

Our beloved teammate Paul Newson is back from his SRE rotation to tell us about all the lessons that he learned during all these months. Your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, are as always here to ask all the burning questions. About Paul Paul is an SRE Advocate at Google. As part of Google’s Cloud developer relations team, he helps our customers understand reliability best practices based on his experiences working as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on Google Compute Engine and as a Software Engineer on Google Cloud Storage. Before joining Google, he cofounded a tiny game technology startup, sold it to Microsoft, where he then worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza Motorsport, before spending some time working on interesting machine learning problems in Microsoft Research. Outside of work he enjoys rock climbing, motorcycling, and other activities that demand complete focus. He doesn’t often post on social media, but when he does, he does it at @newsons_nybbles. Cool thing of the week Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes Kubernetes blog CRE Life Lessons blog post series The SRE book is now free! read it online Interview More episodes with Paul Newson: Storage with Paul Newson episode 14 Site Reliability Engineering episode 38 More links: The SRE book home page SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, oh my - CRE life lessons blog post A Google SRE explores GitHub reliability with BigQuery blog post Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog post Question of the week The question today comes from StackOverflow. How can I see which version of an App Engine service is the default? app.services/get docs Microservices Architecture on Google App Engine docs Were will we be? Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he’ll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco. Francesc is doing a European tour, after speaking at golab and GolangBCN he’s currently in Paris and on his way to the Go Devroom at FOSDEM. A bit later he’ll also be at Gophercon India.

In this second episode of the year we’ll talk Java! Ray Tsang and Rajeev Dayal tell your co-hosts Mark and Francesc everything there is to know about Java on Google Cloud Platform. You will learn about what you can currently as a Java developer on Google Cloud Platform, but also what to expect on the future. About Ray Ray is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. Ray had extensive hands on cross-industry enterprise systems integration delivery and management experiences during his time at Accenture, managed full stack application development, DevOps, and ITOps. Ray specialized in middleware, big data, and PaaS products during his time at Red Hat while contributing to open source projects, such as Infinispan. Aside from technology, Ray enjoys traveling and adventures. About Rajeev Rajeev Dayal is an Engineering Manager at Google New York that manages the Cloud SDK and Java on GCP efforts. He’s been in the developer tools space for nearly 10 years, previously working on the Google Plugin for Eclipse and GWT (where he still has nightmares about browser quirks with Internet Explorer 6) at Google’s Atlanta office. Cool thing of the week A 3-hour crash course on deep-learning, TensorFlow and more. blog post Build a Slack bot that uses the Cloud ML Natural Language API github Google Cloud Audit Logging now available across the GCP stack blog post Interview Java on Google Cloud docs Java on App Engine Standard docs Java and Dataflow docs Google Cloud Tools for Eclipse Documentation docs Google Cloud Stackdriver docs Using Stackdriver Trace with Zipkin docs Stackdriver Debugger docs Question of the week I want to move data from S3 to cloud storage - is there an easy way to do this? Yes! This is the best way to do it docs. You might also want to check out Minio. Were will we be? Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he’ll be speaking at Cloud Next, both in San Francisco. Francesc is doing a European tour, after speaking at golab he’ll speak at GolangBCN. The week after he’ll be in Paris and right after he’ll be in the Go Devroom at FOSDEM. A bit later he’ll also be at Cloud Next.

We’re back! And we’re bringing a seriously cool interview about Pokémon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic. In this interview your co-hosts Francesc and Mark chat with Ed about the whole history of Pokémon GO, from the inception of Niantic to the amazing success and the scaling challenges they faced. About Ed Ed Wu is a Director, Software Engineering at Niantic who leads the engineering team of Pokémon GO as well as the Niantic Seattle site. Before helping to lead Niantic from its successful spin-out from Google, Dr. Wu was a Staff Software Engineer at Google where he developed machine learning models in ads quality. He received his PhD from Stanford in Physics in 2009 applying Bayesian parameter estimation models to cosmological data he collected from three visits to Antarctica and the South Pole. Cool thing of the week How we secure our infrastructure: a white paper blog post Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview docs Google Cloud Platform icons and sample architectural diagrams, for your designing pleasure blog post Solution Icons for Architectural Diagrams link Continuous Deployment to Google Cloud Platform with Drone NYTimes You can read all the source code in: Drone Drone GKE Drone GAE Interview Pokémon GO homepage Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog post Leveraging the Google Cloud Platform niantic Ingress homepage Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog post ‘Pokémon GO’ Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android Forbes Pokémon GO logo owned by The Pokémon Company (from Wikipedia) Pokémon GO stack: Java on Container Engine docs Cloud Datastore docs Cloud Bigtable docs (and more) Question of the week I have these keys that I want to use for encrypting my data at rest. Managing encryption keys in the cloud: introducing Google Cloud Key Management Service blog post Google Cloud Key Management docs Different solutions for different security needs

In the last episode for 2016, Mark and Francesc look at all their favourite moments from this year, including their favourite episodes, guests and Cool Things of the Week. Cool thing of the week Google partners with Improbable to support next generation of video games blog Announcing new Google Cloud Client Libraries for four key services blog Kubernetes 1.5: Supporting Production Workloads blog Favourite Episodes Top Downloaded Episodes #46: Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes gcppodcast.com #44: Cloud Endpoints with Dan Ciruli and Sepehr Ebrahimzadeh gcppodcast.com #31: TensorFlow with Eli Bixby gcppodcast.com #37: GKE 1.3 with Carter Morgan gcppodcast.com #43: gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips gcppodcast.com Mark’s Favourites #19: GCP Next Speakers gcppodcast.com #23: Humble Bundle with Andy Oxfeld gcppodcast.com #52: Google Developer Experts Summit gcppodcast.com Francesc’s Favourites #25: Go on the Cloud with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot gcppodcast.com #38: Site Reliability Engineering with Paul Newson gcppodcast.com #43: gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips gcppodcast.com Favourite Cool Things of the Week Francesc’s Favourites Spotify is now on Google Cloud Platform: Spotify chooses Google Cloud Platform to power data infrastructure blog Announcing Spotify Infrastructure’s Googley Future blog Google’s BigQuery is da bomb - I can start with 2.2Billion ‘things’ and compute/summarize down to 20K in < 1 min. tweet Kubernetes and Google Container Engine Kubernetes 1.3 on tap for Google Container Engine blog Google Container Engine now on Kubernetes 1.4 blog Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog Education: CP100A: Google Cloud Platform Foundations courses New Google Cloud Platform Education Grants offer free credits to students blog Kubernetes class on Udacity blog Mark’s Favourites Multiple General Availabilities Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are now generally available blog Cloud Router docs Cloud CDN docs Identity and Access Management (IAM) docs Machine Learning and Big Data How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow blog Decoding the micro-moments of baseball: can you hear the game through data? blog Introducing Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API open beta and our West Coast region expansion blog Powering geospatial analysis: public geo datasets now on Google Cloud blog Introducing the Open Images Dataset blog Google Cloud Platform Community Slack Join the community invite We’ll be back on January 18th, 2017 - See you all then!