Google Cloud Platform Podcast

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

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 pr

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

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 emai

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 pa

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 do

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 Engin

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 Goo

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

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. Video Highlights Keynote Highlights in under 5 minutes! Full Day 2 Keynote Our favorite announcements Free usage limits for Google Cloud Platform products cloud.google.com/free PostgreSQL now available on Google Cloud SQL docs Interviews Martin Sleeman from Tableau Martin Sleeman tells us about Tableau and the amazing demo they built for his talk that you can watch here: Visualizing big data on Google Cloud. Ed Bender from Fastly Ed Bender joined us to talk about Fastly, an amazing edge network, and told us about their partnership and the history of their relationship with Google. They also had a session and you can find all the details here Selecting the right storage class for your use-case: from content delivery and big data analytics to cold storage. Jonathan Lieberman from Itopia Itpopia is “The Fastest Way to Deploy Desktops in The

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 hom

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

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 Tes

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 s

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 connectio

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: Serverl

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 Eclips

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 architectura

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 Engi