Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Russell Smith, cofounder and CTO of Rainforest QA, joins the podcast to explain to your dear cohosts Francesc and Mark how they power their analytics platform with BigQuery, streaming thousands of rows per second. About Russell Russell is the CTO & Co-Founder of Rainforest QA. In a past life he provided consultancy for startups & companies around development, ops, architecture design and capacity planning. Specialties: Development, developer workflow, devops, linux, Debian, CI, benchmarking, profiling, bug fixing, performance, scalability, ops planning, capacity planning / modeling, lols. Russell has tons of ops experience, mad coding skillz and 0 knowledge of geography. He loves hacking on open source, running meetups and arguing about startups. Cool things of the week Kubernetes 1.4: Kubernetes 1.4: Making it easy to run on Kubernetes anywhere blog Installing Kubernetes on Linux with kubeadm docs Scheduled Jobs in Kubernetes 1.4 docs Kubernetes The Hard Way docs Using App Engine to start a Compute Engine VM medium Interview RainforestQA homepage Selenium webdriver Firebase Device Lab docs BigQuery Stream API docs re:dash Open Source Data Collaboration and Visualization Platform docs BigQuery Paritioned Tables docs Historical Data is 50% cheaper on BigQuery announcement BigQuery standard SQL docs Question of the week How to react to email from Google Cloud - Receiving Emails from App Engine docs App Engine Services docs Compute as a Continuum gcppodcast.com Were will we be? You can find Mark at SIEGE from October 7th to 9th Francesc will be in New York running a Go workshop on October 5th, and then he’ll do a similar meetup this time online.

Google Cloud Endpoints has recently been rereleased and Dan Ciruli and Sep Ebrahimzadeh join us this episode to tell your cohosts Mark and Francesc everything there is to know about it. About Dan Dan Ciruli is a product manager at Google who works on Cloud Endpoints and API infrastructure. He used to play a lot of ultimate when he had knees and write a lot of software when he had time. He’ll try to speak Spanish to you if you give him a chance. About Sepehr Sepehr (Sep) Ebrahimzadeh is a Technical Lead software engineer at Google who works on Cloud Endpoints and API infrastructure. Jack of all trades, master of none! Sepehr is passionate about APIs and Cloud Computing. He has previously contributed to Google’s Compute Engine and Deployment Manager products as well as Amazon’s EC2. Cool things of the week Apache Kafka for GCP users: connectors for Pub/Sub, Dataflow and BigQuery Big Data blog Interview Google Cloud Endpoints homepage Google Cloud Endpoints docs Open API Initiative openapis.org Google Service Management docs Google Service Control docs gRPC gateway: gRPC to JSON proxy generator GitHub Authentication with GitKit, Firebase Auth, Auth0 NGINX Question of the week Access the Google Cloud Metadata service from App Engine with the Google Compute API REST Go Java Python

Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS, tells your cohosts Mark and Francesc why they chose gRPC for the newest version of etcd and how this improved its performance and development flow. About Brandon Brandon Philips is helping to build modern server infrastructure at CoreOS as CTO. Prior to CoreOS, he worked at Rackspace hacking on cloud monitoring and was a Linux kernel developer at SUSE. As a graduate of Oregon State’s Open Source Lab he is passionate about open source technologies. Cool things of the week @notch, creator of Minecraft would cloud again with Google Cloud Platform A Stack of Stuff for .NET developers: Getting started with Cloud Tools for Visual Studio blog post Running Powershell on Google Cloud SDK blog post Installing and using Cloud Tools for Visual Studio YouTube Interview CoreOS etcd: Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system GitHub Protocol Buffers Google Developers gRPC v1 GitHub release gRPC gateway: gRPC to JSON proxy generator GitHub CoreOS Community homepage Swagger aka OpenAPI gRPC streaming docs Question of the week Emulator for Datastore docs

Umesh Shankar has been working on making Google secure for many years and he’s come to tell you and your cohosts Francesc and Mark how encryption helps keep Google Cloud Platform users safe. About Umesh Umesh Shankar is a Principal Engineer based in New York, focusing on security and privacy. He created and continues to lead the Data Protection effort at Google, working to keep users’ data safe in Google apps and on Google Cloud Platform. He routinely works with teams across the company on security and privacy design, and is actively involved in trying to improve security on the web. Umesh has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University. He is an avid soccer player, clarinetist, and mixologist. Cool things of the week Google Cloud Endpoints announcement How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow blog post Interview Google Cloud Platform Security homepage Google Security Whitepaper whitepaper Encryption at Rest in Google Cloud Platform whitepaper Google Cloud Storage User Provided Keys docs Encrypting Disks with Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys docs Homomorphic Encryption wikipedia Homomorphic Encryption with BigQuery docs Cloud Data Protection for the Masses research paper Question of the week Web serving on Google Cloud Platform: an overview blog post Web Serving Overview solution

Descartes Labs is creating an incredible living atlas of the world from huge datasets leveraging the power of Google Cloud Platform and Tim Kelton, one of the co-founders of Descartes Labs, is here to your cohosts Francesc Campoy and Mark Mandel all about it. About Tim Tim is a co-founder of Descartes Labs focuses on building distributed systems using cloud architecture to better see how the earth changes every day. Prior to Descartes Labs, Tim was a Research and Development engineer for 15 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on problem areas such as deep learning, space systems, nuclear non-proliferation, and counterterrorism. In his free time, Tim enjoys mountain biking and skiing in the mountains above Descartes in Santa Fe New Mexico. Cool things of the week Check the transcripts for every episode! All Google Cloud Platform episodes on YouTube gRPC Project is now 1.0 and ready for production deployments blog post Interview Descartes Labs home page Advancing the science of corn forecasting Medium Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer Google Research Preemptible VMs docs Managed Instance Groups docs Celery: Distributed Task Queue homepage “Tatooine†then and now from space: 40th anniversary of filming of Star Wars Medium Some maps Three maps of Humboldt, Iowa in July 2016. Cloud free image in true color We detect fields automatically, using machine learning. This is a map of all the fields in Humbolt. Vegetative health (using NDVI) Question of the week What can you get for free on Google Cloud Platform? App Engine pricing 28 free instance-hours per day Cloud Datastore pricing 1 GB of storage 50k Entity Reads 20k Entity Writes 20k Entity Deletes Vision API pricing 1k units/month (a unit correspond to a feature e.g. facial detection) BigQuery pricing Loading, Copying, and Exporting data is always free First TB of processed data in queries is free every month PubSub pricing First 250M Operations: $0.40/Million

Mark is back right on time to interview Alan Fregtman, a pipeline developer working at Rodeo FX. Alan will explain how Google Cloud Platform enables Rodeo FX artist to create amazing visual effects faster. Rodeo FX is very well known for their work on Game of Thrones, Deadpool, and many others. I recommend watching this demo video to get an idea of their talent. Game Of Thrones - Season 6 - VFX Breakdown from Rodeo FX. About Alan In the industry for 8 years ranging from commercials work to tv series and now film, Alan Fregtman (also on imdb) has been holding technical roles throughout his career, beginning as a character rigger and currently a pipeline developer at Rodeo FX in Montreal, where he has been for the last 4 years. He specializes in developing tools for the CG side of the film visual effects pipeline, including Rodeo’s integration of the Google Cloud Platform for use in cloud rendering. Cool thing of the week Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are now generally available Improved performance, security and platform support for databases (Low-latency for Google Cloud Storage Nearline storage) Announcement Interview Rodeo FX has worked on many shows: demo GCE Custom Machine Types to adapt to the movie needs docs Preemptible VM instancesc for their reduced cost docs Salt Stack to keep all machines configured docs FDT: Fast Data Transfer for really fast transfer of … data docs Creating a Google Cloud VPN docs GlusterFS to manage their in-house file system docs For more information: How GCP helps Rodeo FX extending their rendering capacity, presented by Jordan Soles YouTube Videos by Rodeo FX on vimeo Question of the week How to create a Managed Instance Group from a VM? Delete your instance keeping your disk Create a custom image from your disk docs Create a new Instance Template with them image Create an Managed Instance Group with the template What if you can’t delete the instance? Create a snapshot from your running disk docs Create a new disk from the snapshot Go to step [2] above

This week, Terry Ryan and Brent Shaffer join Francesc and guest host Chris Broadfoot to talk all about PHP on Google Cloud Platform About Terry Terry Ryan is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform team. He has 15 years of experience working with the web - both front end and back. He is passionate about web standards and wants to bring web developers to the Google Cloud Platform. Before Google, he worked for Adobe and the Wharton School of Business. He also wrote Driving Technical Change for Pragmatic Bookshelf, a book that arms technology professionals with the tools to convince reluctant co-workers to adopt new tools and technology. About Brent Brent Shaffer is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google who is involved primarily in the Open Source world of PHP and Ruby. His most notable Open Source contribution is the OAuth2 server for PHP, and his favorite OpenSource project is the Symfony framework. Outside of work, he loves mountaineering and playing folk music in a band. Cool thing of the week Preemptible VMs now up to 33% cheaper blog Interview PHP on Google Cloud Platform docs PHP App Engine Getting Started docs Run PHP on Compute Engine docs Create a Guestbook with Redis and PHP on Container Engine docs Quick Start WordPress for Google App Engine github How to Run Symfony Hello World on App Engine docs github Docker images for running PHP applications on the App Engine Flexible Runtime github Cloud Launcher LAMP Stack launcher Question of the week How do I load balance WebSocket connection with a Google Cloud Load Balancer? Setting Up HTTP(S) Load Balancing docs Setting Up Network Load Balancing docs Setting Up SSL proxy for Google Cloud Load Balancing docs When should I use HTTPS load balancing instead of SSL proxy load balancing? faq

Paul Newson is back to the podcast to tell us about his experience as an SRE, or Site Reliability Engineer. They keep Google and Google Cloud running and he explains to your cohosts Francesc and Mark how they make that happen. About Paul Paul currently is going through a six month rotation as a Software Reliability Engineer, previously he focused on helping developers harness the power of Google Cloud Platform to solve their big data problems. Before that, he was an engineer on Google Cloud Storage. Before joining Google, Paul founded a startup which was acquired by Microsoft, where he worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza Motorsport, before spending time working on machine learning problems at Microsoft Research. Cool thing of the week Introducing Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API open beta and our West Coast region expansion blog Interview What is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’? Interview Google Cloud Platform opens its first West Coast region TechCrunch Site Reliability Engineering Book Go Programming Language Homepage Keys to SRE - SREcon14 YouTube Adventures in SRE-land: Welcome to Google Mission Control blog Question of the week How Kubernetes Updates Work on GKE blog Were will we be? Francesc is working on a video series justforfunc Mark will be at PAX DEV in Seattle and then Strange Loop in St Louis

Carter Morgan is back to discuss with your cohosts Francesc and Mark more on Kubernetes 1.3 and what is new for GKE, aka Google Container Engine. About Carter Carter Morgan, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, co-created the Udacity course Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes and presented Best Practices for Orchestrating the Cloud with Kubernetes at Google IO16. On the side, he teaches presentation skills to other Googlers. Before Google, Carter coded for the United States Air Force and for Microsoft. In his free time, he’s a regular in the local Seattle standup comedy scene. Cool thing of the week A better way to bootstrap MongoDB on Google Cloud Platform post Interview Kubernetes docs Google Container Engine docs IAM integration with Google Container Engine docs Google Container Engine Node Pools docs Local SSD support on GKE docs GKE Cluster Autoscaler docs Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes Udacity Google Cloud Shell docs Question of the week Kubernetes local development with minikube GitHub Were will we be? Mark will be at the Indie Game Festival

Carter Morgan tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark all the new features of Kubernetes 1.3, the latest version of the open source container orchestration framework. About Carter Carter Morgan, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, co-created the Udacity course Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes and presented Best Practices for Orchestrating the Cloud with Kubernetes at Google IO16. On the side, he teaches presentation skills to other Googlers. Before Google, Carter coded for the United States Air Force and for Microsoft. In his free time, he’s a regular in the local Seattle standup comedy scene. Cool thing of the week Three products are now General Availability: Bigtable docs Cloud Router docs Cloud CDN docs Interview Kubernetes docs Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes Udacity Best Practices for Orchestrating the Cloud with Kubernetes YouTube at Google IO16. Kubernetes Cluster Federation docs Stateful Applications in Containers!? Kubernetes 1.3 Says “Yes!” blog Container initialization initContainers Thousand Instances of Cassandra using Kubernetes Pet Set blog Google Container Engine (GKE) docs Creating a Raspberry Pi cluster running Kubernetes, the shopping list blog Kubernetes The Hard Way workshop Kubernetes Secrets docs Kubernetes Config Maps docs Question of the week Making Kubernetes IP addresses static on Google Container Engine blog