Google Cloud Platform Podcast

In the fifteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Varun Talwar. Varun is a product manager in charge of gRPC, an open source project created at Google that helps you build distributed systems like we do internally at Google. About Varun Varun is a product manager in Google Cloud team and has recently taken on gRPC. Prior to this he was responsible for Google Cloud Launcher, a launchpad to easily spin up popular software images on Google Compute Engine. He is a long time Googler who has previously worked on YouTube, Maps and Adsense. Follow Varun on Twitter @varungyan. Cool thing of the week 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 Interview Resources: grpc.io gRPC on GitHub Mailing list for gRPC: grpc-io@googlegroups.com Take a REST with HTTP/2, Protobufs, and Swagger blog Protocol Buffers docs etcd: distributed key-value store with grpc/http2 blog Flatbuffers docs Game on! Flatbuffers video thrift docs Question of the week Special guests Sara Robinson and David East. Firebase authentication with email and password docs Firebase authData for iOS docs Firebase UI for Android and iOS

In the fourteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Paul Newson. Paul is now a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform but was a Software Engineer in the Cloud Storage team. Together they discuss the multiple options available for data storage on the cloud and the trade offs to be taken into account while choosing one. About Paul Paul currently focuses on helping developers harness the power of Google Cloud Platform to solve their big data problems. Previously, 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. Follow Paul on Twitter @newsons_nybbles. Cool thing of the week Opinionated Deployment Tools & Kubernetes blog post and Github repository Interview When to Pick Google Bigtable vs Other Cloud Platform Databases blog post. Where Should I Store My Stuff? - slightly outdated video. Choosing a Storage Option docs. Google Drive docs. Google Cloud Storage docs. Google Cloud Datastore docs. Google Cloud SQL docs. Google Cloud Bigtable docs. Google BigQuery docs. Google Cloud Dataflow docs Question of the week Question from Jeff Schnitzer: Can you use Java 8 features in Standard App Engine? Google App Engine Standard Environment docs. Google App Engine Managed VMs docs. Retrolambda Github repo.

In the thirteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Sara Robinson and Vikrum Nijjar. Sara is now a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform but was part of Firebase until recently, and Vikrum - Firebase employee #1 - works as a Site Reliance Engineer (SRE) for Firebase. Together they discuss the origins, features, and future of Firebase. About Sara Sara is a Developer Advocate on Google’s Cloud Platform team, where she helps with developer relations through online content, outreach and events. She has a bachelor’s degree in Business and International Studies from Brandeis University. When she’s not programming, she can be found running, listening to country music, or finding the best ice cream in SF. Follow Sara on Twitter @SRobTweets. About Vikrum Vikrum is a Bay Area native and SWE-SRE on the Firebase team. He started out with startups in the 90s with Speedera and has been with Firebase as employee #1 as they were going through YCombinator during the summer of 2011. He has a degree in CS from UC San Diego and enjoys a deep conspiracy with his boba tea. Follow Vikrum on Twitter at @Vikrum5000. Cool thing of the week CP100A: Google Cloud Platform Foundations courses. Interview Firebase. Firebase Documentation. Warby Parker Pneumatic Tubes blog. Roll 20 and their case study. Netty.io. Firebase plugin for Unity blog and github. Firebase pricing doc. Parse moving on blog. Use Firebase and Google App Engine in an Android App tutorial. Firebase - Almost 1.5 years with Google blog. Question of the week Google Cloud Console on Android and iOS.

In the eleventh episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Jen Tong, a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, about the Internet of Things. About Jen Jenny is a Developer Advocate on Cloud at Google. In this role she helps developers build cool stuff on all sorts of platforms. Previously she worked in a wide variety of software roles from robotics at NASA, to developer advocacy for Google Glass. She is passionate about education, especially on the subjects of technology and science. If she’s away from her laptop, she’s probably skating around a roller derby track, or hanging from aerial silk. You can contact Jen through Twitter and her home page. Cool thing of the week Deep Learning at Udacity Google Research blost post. Interview Arduino starter kit NodeBots: Robots powered by JavaScript Raspberry Pi Arduino Uno Node.JS Firmata for Arduino Johnny Five Firebase ESP8266 WiFi Module Question of the week Google Cloud Platform training page

In the tenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Graham Polley and Pablo Caif, who are both Google Developer Experts who work at Shine Technologies. About Graham Graham is a senior software engineer based out of Melbourne Australia. He’s passionate about promoting the adoption of cloud technologies into software development, and regularly blogs and gives presentations. Graham has extensive experience in building big data solutions for clients using the Google technology stack, and in particular with BigQuery & Dataflow. Graham works very closely with the GCP engineering team in the US, where he is a member of their cloud platform trusted tester program, and the solutions he helps build are used as internal exemplars of developer use cases. Graham is also a GDE on the GCP. You can contact Graham through Twitter, blog and Google Developer Expert Profile. About Pablo Pablo is a passionate software engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, and devising simple solutions. He works at Shine Technologies and he is part of a team that uses BigQuery and Dataflow to solve challenging and complex data processing business requirements. Pablo considers that scalability and performance are paramount to developing a great solution, and that is why he has been using Dataflow and BigQuery to bring these solutions to reality. Pablo is also a GDE on GCP. You can contact Pablo through Twitter, and blog. Cool thing of the week Google Cloud Platform Next Join the largest gathering of the Google Cloud Platform community to explore the latest developments in cloud technology. Come meet the people that help build Google Cloud Platform, such as engineers and product managers as well as network with experienced cloud architects, managers and engineers who have deployed GCP in their organizations. Interview Shine Technologies homepage Google Developer Experts about page BigQuery docs Cloud DataFlow docs Cloud Dataproc docs Google Cloud Dataproc and the 17 minute train challenge blog post A week in the life of a Google Developer Expert blog post Messages in the sky blog post Shine with BigQuery: The 30 Terabyte challenge video Question of the week The Google App Engine Admin API doc

In the ninth episode of this podcast and first of 2016, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Ram Ramanathan. Ram is the product manager for Google Cloud Vision API. About Ram Ram Ramanathan joined Google in 2014 where he’s been working on leading the machine learning efforts for Google Cloud Platform, and  has been a large part of launching the new Google Cloud Vision API. He comes with a great deal  of experience in the industry after working for other big players such as GE Healthcare and Microsoft. You can follow him on twitter at @ramramanathan1. Cool thing of the week Top 5 Power Features of the Google Cloud CLI (blog post) Get your current project id using gcloud: gcloud config list core/project | awk '{print \$3}' After the recording we were informed that there’s a better way using formats: gcloud config list --format="value(core.project)" Interview Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images blog Google Cloud Vision API docs Google Cloud Vision robot demo video Tensorflow homepage Mobile Vision SDK docs Question of the week Google Cloud Storage Access Control docs Google Cloud Storage Signed URLs docs

In the eighth episode of this podcast and last of 2015, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Felipe Hoffa. Felipe is a developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform and he specializes in Big Data. About Felipe In 2011 Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he’s been a Developer Advocate on Big Data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world. Cool thing of the week Cloud SQL second generation docs and announcement blog post Interview BigQuery docs MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters research paper Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets research paper Cloud DataFlow docs FlumeJava: Easy, Efficient Data-Parallel Pipelines research paper MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale research paper Cloud Datalab docs Jupyter project homepage Cloud BigTable docs Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data research paper Google Cloud Genomics docs and 23andme homepage Hey I just met you ... tweet BigQuery subreddit Question of the week App Engine environment variables docs Kubernetes secrets docs Google Compute Engine metadata docs App Engine example code to access project metadata Google Cloud Storage Security and Privacy considerations docs

In the seventh episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark discuss the different ways messaging can be done on Google Cloud Platform, covering Pub/Sub and Task Queues and when to choose what. Links: Google Cloud Vision API blog post Photo Scavenger Hunt app Google Task Queues documentation Google Cloud Pub/Sub documentation Exporting logs documentation Feature comparison Feature Task Queues Pub/Sub Pull via API Yes Yes Push via Webhooks Yes Yes Max size of message 100K 10MB At least once delivery guarantee Yes Yes Batch Insert Only in App Engine Yes Multiple receivers No Yes Datastore Transactions Yes No Maximum Messages/s 1B (with billing) 250 msg/q/s Unlimited (after request) Throttling Yes No (if needed → pull) Performance median 5ms (99%ile 300ms) Sub-second even when tested at over 1M msg/s Cloud Monitoring No Yes

In the sixth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Ilya Grigorik, Developer Advocate at Google. About Ilya: Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google; co-chair of W3C Webperf WG and in short, an internet plumber. Links: Kubecraft: kubernetes visualizer on minecraft video and code HTTP/2 home page HTTP/2 on Google Cloud Platform blog post HTTP/2 demo with Go: gophertiles Making the web faster with SPDY and HTTP/2 blog post A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport blog post QUIC protocol draft Preemptible machine documentations

In the fifth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Chris Sells, Product Manager at Google. About Chris: Chris Sells has been a software engineer of one kind or another since he was 14 years old. He’s worked at Intel and Microsoft, has started his own companies, has written a dozen books, given countless conference talks and has done everything from QA to developer, consultant to VP, technical support to CTO, chief architect to conference organizer. Currently, Chris is a Product Manager at Google focused on tools for cloud developers. You can contact Chris at: LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/csells Twitter: @csells Blog: http://sellsbrothers.com Links: Custom Machine Types documentation Cloud Source Repositories Deploy a sample application using Node.js gcloud-intellij on GitHub Language-specific getting started pages for Node.js, Python, Ruby and Go. Horizontal podcast autoscaling for Kubernetes documentation