Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Avere provides high performance file system solutions for hybrid cloud infrastructures, and is partner for Google Cloud Platform. To tell you all about it Francesc and Mark are joined by Scott Jeschonek, Director of Cloud Products at Avere, and Dave Elliott, Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform. About Scott Jeschonek Scott Jeschonek is Director of Cloud Products at Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud. Scott has spent his past 20 years synthesizing his enterprise, telecommunications and vendor experience together to provide a unique perspective to the implications of the cloud phenomenon. About Dave Elliott Dave Elliott is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform. In this role he engages communities to inspire them to try new products and technologies, embrace new ideas, and he is the voice of those communities to product and engineering teams. Prior to Google, Elliott was a Chief Cloud Evangelist at Symantec where he advocated for new architectures in data

Sourcegraph provides navigation tools for source code, and it’s powered by Go and Google Cloud Platform. Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder, joins your co-hosts Francesc and Mark to discuss how they built their features on top of our infrastructure. About Quinn Slack Quinn Slack is CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, code intelligence software that lets software teams ship better and faster. Prior to Sourcegraph, Quinn co-founded Blend, an enterprise technology company with over 150 employees dedicated to improving home lending. His long-term goal is to build the products and infrastructure to support the future world where billions of people have coding fluency (just as billions of people today can read and write). Cool things of the week Introducing managed SSL for Google App Engine announcement With Forseti, Spotify and Google release GCP security tools to open source community announcement Global Kubernetes in 3 Steps on GCP medium by Christopher Grant Interview Sourcegraph Sourcegraph source code GitHu

Have you ever wanted to know what powers BigQuery under the hood? Tino Tereshko and Jordan Tigani sit in front of the microphone with co-hosts Mark and Francesc to talk all about it! About Tino Tereshko Tino is the Big Data Lead for Office of the CTO at Google Cloud, focusing on building strategic relationships with the world’s top Enterprises in the interest of sharing and accelerating technological innovation. Tino hails from the BigQuery team, where he solved difficult cloud-native product problems, enabled Googlers and customers, and built programs like BigQuery Pacific. In earlier years Tino held various positions of leadership in several Silicon Valley startups, and could be found working as a quant developer on the floor of the Chicago Board of Equities at a boutique market making firm. Tino holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from University of California - Davis. When not at work, you can usually find him playing beach volleyball, cycling, skiing, paddle boarding, or enjoyi

What is the difference between AI and ML? Melanie Warrick joins your co-hosts Mark and Francesc to discuss the differences and what applications it can have. About Melanie Warrick Melanie is a Senior Developer Advocate at Google. Previous experience includes work as a founding engineer on Deeplearning4J as well as implementing machine learning in production at Change.org. Prior experience also covers business consulting and large enterprise technology implementations for a wide variety of companies. Over the last couple years, she’s spoken at many conferences about artificial intelligence, and her passions are working on machine learning problems at scale. Cool things of the week Announcing new Stackdriver Logging features and expanded free logs limits blog Preventing log waste with Stackdriver Logging blog How to build a conversational app using Cloud Machine Learning APIs, Part 3 blog Your next app might be a bot! Building conversational UX with API.AI youtube The canonical new book about stream process

Michael Will, Director of Technical Operations at Phoenix One Games, joins your co-hosts Mark and Francesc today to tell us about their migration from their own hardware to the cloud, how they did it, and what they learned from it. About Michael Will Michael is experienced in the design and deployment of high performance compute clusters both from hardware and software aspect with a parallel execution and solution architecture focus from IBM 390 running Linux to Penguin Computing commodity hardware for 10+ years, applying in the last 5 years to his passion for real time strategy gaming at Phoenix Age / Kabam / Phoenix One Games. Cool things of the week Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine New York Times blog Introducing Network Service Tiers: Your cloud network, your way GCP blog Titan in depth: Security in plaintext GCP blog Final Day at Cloud Next gcppodcast 67 Interview Google Compute Engine docs Gaming Solutions on Google Cloud Platform docs Google Cloud Storage docs Cou

In this week’s episode Mark and Francesc are joined by Amit Pande, Product Management Leader for Google Cloud to discuss how machine learning can automate the media and entertainment industry. About Amit Pande Amit Pande is a Product Management Leader for Google Cloud. In this role, Amit is responsible for working closely with leaders across Media and Entertainment Industry to help them envision and transform their business with Google Cloud, Big Data and Machine Learning. Amit is a veteran product manager with 6 years of experience leading several successful products across Google Search, Ads and Google Play product areas. Prior to joining Google, Amit worked in various product and engineering leadership roles at Microsoft for 8 years including on Xbox Video and Music. Amit holds a masters degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California. He lives in San Francisco with his wife. Cool things of the week Cloud Speech API improves longform audio recognition and adds 30 new language variants b

Mark and Francesc welcome the incredible Greg DeMichillie into their studio this week, to talk all about Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO, and how it works with enterprise companies. About Greg DeMichillie Greg has 20 years experience in creating great computing platforms for developers and IT alike. He has been at Google since before the inception of Google Cloud Platform and as Director of Product he lead the product teams for App Engine, Compute Engine, Kubernetes & Container Engine, as well as the Developer Console, SDKs, and Billing system. He has delivered keynote presentations and product demos at events such as Google I/O and Google Cloud NEXT as well as interviews with the New York Times, Wall St Journal, and other publications. Prior to joining Google, he had leadership roles at variety of companies including Adobe and Amazon, as well as a decade at Microsoft where he was a developer on the first version of Visual C++, the development manager for Microsoft’s Java tools, and lead the product team

Today Francesc and Mark have the honor to be joined by Alim Jaffer and Mo Firouz from Heroic Labs to discuss their open source framework for social and realtime apps and games. About Alim Jaffer A member of the founding team, Alim joined Heroic Labs in 2016 as the VP of Product after having worked in startups focused in the games and health verticals. He is based in Vancouver, Canada and San Francisco. About Mo Firouz Mo cofounded Heroic Labs and is part of the core engineering team. Mo has worked on various products in Heroic Labs including the core Nakama server as well as Heroic Managed Cloud where he was primarily responsible for automating server provisioning and the monitoring stack with Kubernetes. Mo previously worked as a system architect in VisualDNA and built scalable big-data analytics systems, and prior to that built realtime high frequency trading systems. Cool things of the week CRE life lessons: What is a dark launch, and what does it do for me? blog post Cloud Dataproc is now even faster

Tim Hockin, one of the engineers that started the Kubernetes project, joins Francesc and Mark to talk about all of the cool stuff coming up with Kubernetes 1.7. About Tim Hockin Tim was one of the first engineers on Kubernetes and GKE, where he has been involved in things like networking, storage, node management, API, plugins, and more. Before Kubernetes, he worked on Google’s internal systems, Borg and Omega, mostly on the node management side, and on Google’s machine management, hardware bringup, and kernels. He has been contributing to open-source projects since 1995, when he first learned C. Cool things of the week Cloud Shell’s code editor now in beta announcement How App Engine helped power Super Mario Run blog post New hands-on labs for scientific data processing on Google Cloud Platform blog post Interview kubernetes.io is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes 1.7: Security Hardening, Stateful Application Updates and E

Francesc and Mark are joined this week by Jonathan Cham, a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud Platform, to discuss what his job entails and how our customers can benefit from it. About Jonathan Cham Jonathan Cham is a customer engineer who helps customers be successful on the Google Cloud Platform. For 10 years, he has advised companies of all stages– from startups to Fortune 50 companies on cloud technologies and helping them accelerate the delivery of IT. He wants to help build your next successful billion dollar business on the Google Cloud Platform! In his free time, he is changing lots of diapers, not by choice, and preparing his 3 month son for the 2036 NBA draft. Cool things of the week Google not Amazon. Make fantastic savings in a server-less world blog post TCP BBR congestion control comes to GCP – your Internet just got faster GCP blog Google’s BBR Algorithm for Speeding up Internet Traffic Gains Wider Adoption bleepingcomputer.com Introducing Transfer Appliance: Sneakernet for the cloud era GC

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

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 microservic

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 fi

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

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

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 Q

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 Ahme

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 Clou

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

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