Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Today we learn everything there is to be learnt about Managed Infrastructure from Pawel Siarkiewicz and Jerzy Foryciarz, two Product Managers at Google working on the topic. Your co-hosts Francesc and Mark are here to help you understand what is Managed Infrastructure and why sometimes it might be just the right level of abstraction and automation you need. About Pawel Pawel Siarkiewicz is a Product Manager on Google Compute Engine Managed Infrastructure. Prior to joining Google at the start of 2016, Pawel was a Technical Director at Electronic Arts, a CTO at Genus Capital Management and an entrepreneur. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an MBA. About Jerzy Jerzy Foryciarz is a Lead Product Manager on Google Compute Engine. Jerzy joined Google in 2011 working for Google TV, Youtube and Google Now. Prior to Google he was an Engineering Director of Motorola Cellular Networks Software. He holds MSc in Computer Technologies in Nuclear Physics from Jagiellonian University, PhD in Nuclear Physics From Nation

This week Alan Ho from Apigee joins your cohosts Francesc and Mark to talk about the lifecycle of an API. About Alan Ho Alan is an engineer and entrepreneur, and leads developer advocacy for Apigee - an API Management provider newly acquired by Google Cloud. In addition to helping out customers build better APIs, he organizes API conferences and technical talks on all things APIs. Prior to Apigee, he had started a mobile application performance monitoring company (acquired by Apigee), and had built large scale web services at Amazon. Cool thing of the week Kompose: a tool to go from Docker-compose to Kubernetes blog Interview Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love ebook Open API Initiative site Swagger API Framework site Uber’s APIs: Giving Developers the Keys to Innovation blog Question of the week When using Ruby, developing with Cloud Services, such as storage, how can I write my code such that it’s portable between Cloud Providers? Fog site Google Cloud Provider for Fog github Create a VM with F

Today Aja Hammerly, Developer Advocate and fellow teammate at Google Cloud Platform, joins your cohosts Francesc and Mark to tell us about all the cool things you can do with Ruby on Google Cloud. About Aja Hammerly Aja lives in Seattle where she is a Developer Advocate at Google and a member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. Her favorite languages are Ruby and Prolog. She also loves working with large piles of data. In her free time she enjoys skiing, cooking, knitting, and long coding sessions on the beach. Cool thing of the week Announcing GPUs for Google Cloud Platform blog Google Cloud to join .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group blog Interview Ruby on Google Cloud Platform docs APIs & Ruby Libraries docs Google App Engine Ruby Flexible Environment Documentation docs Create a BigQuery table with Ruby: Cloud Minute YouTube Create a VM with Fog & Ruby: Cloud Minute YouTube Upload to Google Cloud Storage with Fog: Cloud Minute YouTube RubyConf 2016 home page Official Ruby logo by Yukihiro Mats

This week your cohosts Francesc and Mark travel all the way to sunny Sunnyvale, CA to interview some Google Developer Experts on the amazing things they do. Google Developer Experts are a very interesting group of highly skilled people with a passion for technology and spreading their knowledge. We will talk about how they are using the cloud to improve research on cancer. Cool thing of the week How to avoid a self-inflicted DDoS Attack - CRE life lessons blog post Interviews: Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine Alexis is a Developer Relations Program Manager for the Google Cloud Advocacy team, and manages the Google Developer Experts program for all cloud related topics. Lynn Langit Lynn is the co-founder of ‘Teaching Kids Programming’ and a Big Data and Cloud Architect, as well as an analyst. She is also an advisory board member at Codenvy, and AlgebraixData. Alline Oliveira Alline is the founder of LeanX.co and a senior Java/GWT programmer. Over the past 20 years, she has programmed, taught and managed teams in

Sandeep Dinesh, a fellow Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform, joins your cohosts Francesc and Mark to talk about how Mark and Sandeep built a fun IoT version of Simon Says. Get ready for some real hacking, involving gRPC, Kubernetes, many programming languages, and even a bit of soldering! About Sandep Dinesh Sandeep started coding and creating websites when he was 12 and hasn’t stopped. He is passionate about building easy-to-use products people love. Before Google, he founded an IoT startup in agriculture and developed educational HTML5 games. At Google, Sandeep’s goal is to make cloud easy and help developers create the next big thing. Sandeep loves video games, making music, and martial arts, and has Bachelors in Marketing and Computer Science. Cool thing of the week What’s new with Google Cloud Resource Manager, and other IAM news blog post Adding Firebase to your Unity Project docs Firebase for Games (Firebase Dev Summit 2016) YouTube Interview gRPC Simon Says GitHub gRPC: A high performa

Today your cohosts Francesc and Mark celebrate the fiftieth episode interviewing Michelle Noorali and Matt Butcher about Helm, a package manager for Kubernetes: like apt/yum/homebrew for Kubernetes. About Michelle Noorali Michelle Noorali is a software engineer at Deis. She is a Core Maintainer on the Helm project. Michelle is also the co-lead of the Kubernetes Special Interest Group for Applications, better known as SIG-Apps, which focuses primarily on defining, running, and managing applications in Kubernetes. About Matthew Butcher Matt Butcher is a software architect at Deis. He is the author of eight software development books, most recently Go in Practice. Matt has a Ph.D. in philosophy, and teaches in the computer science department at Loyola University Chicago. He has contributed to over one hundred open source projects. Matt is a founding member of the Helm project. Cool thing of the week Decoding the micro-moments of baseball: can you hear the game through data? blog post Treat Google Cloud Storage

Today Amruta Gulanikar and Chris Sells, experts from the Windows and .NET community and part of the Google Cloud team, join your cohosts Francesc and Mark to discuss why you should run your Windows and .NET work loads on Google Cloud. About Amruta Gulanikar Prior to joining Google Amruta spent 5+ years as a PM in the Office division at Microsoft working on many different products. Just before she left, she worked on launching a new service and supporting apps - “O365 Planner” which offers people a simple and visual way to organize teamwork. At Google, Amruta owns Windows on GCE which includes support for premium OS & Microsoft Server product images, platform improvements to support Windows workloads on GCE. About Chris Sells Before joining Google, Chris was a contributing member of the Windows developer community for more than 20 years, including 8 years at Microsoft. He’s written a number of books in this area and still maintains a blog that he started in 1995 about his various technical adventures, alth

Ines Envid, a Product Manager for Cloud Networking, joins the podcast today to tell us how mind blowing Google’s network is and how you can make the best of it! Let Francesc and Mark ask all the questions about VPCs, Load Balancers, and Routers you always wanted to know the answer to. About Ines Ines is a product manager in Cloud Networking. She has dedicated her career to in product, and development roles for carrier and enterprise networking infrastructure and applications, from access, edge and backbone cores. Ines is currently leading the Google cloud networking VPC topology and policy product areas. Cool things of the week New undersea cable expands capacity for Google APAC customers and users blog Managing containerized ASP.NET Core apps with Kubernetes blog We’re Hiring join us! New undersea cable expands capacity for Google APAC customers and users Interview Google Cloud Networking docs Google Cloud Security docs Google Security Whitepaper research Using Networks and Firewalls docs Google Cloud

Swati Kulshreshth and Emeka Okonkwo join your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, today to give us an overview of what the Google Cloud Abuse team, how it can impact you, and in what ways it protects everyone: including you! About Swati Swati leads developer experience for Cloud TnS. She is responsible for ensuring that developers whose projects are flagged for suspicious activity can easily fix the issue. About Emeka Emeka is a senior strategist for Cloud TnS. He is responsible for addressing network related abuse on Cloud with primary focus of abuse on GCE. Prior to working at Google, he was at Verizon for 9+ years as a Software Engineer. In his spare time, he likes going to the movies and watching video games (He doesn’t play them as often as they’ve become too complicated - so mostly watches on Youtube Gaming or Twitch). Cool things of the week Powering geospatial analysis: public geo datasets now on Google Cloud Google Cloud Blog Introducing the Open Images Dataset Google Research Go Web Workshop GitHub Publ

Today we have the incredible honor to interview John Wilkes, Principle Engineer at Google and co-author of the Borg paper, about the history of Borg and how Kubernetes came to be. And guess what, Mark is very excited! Francesc is excited too, though. About John John Wilkes has been at Google since 2008, where he is working on cluster management and infrastructure services. Before that, he spent a long time at HP Labs, becoming an HP and ACM Fellow in 2002. He is interested in far too many aspects of distributed systems, but a recurring theme has been technologies that allow systems to manage themselves. In his spare time he continues, stubbornly, trying to learn how to blow glass. Cool things of the week New Regions coming in 2017 announcement Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Northern Virginia, São Paulo, London, Finland and Frankfurt — and there are more regions to be announced next year. Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog And many other cool things from Horizons here Interview Cluster manag

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 Comput

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 Servic

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 C

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 G

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

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 perf

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

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 Boo

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 minikub

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 initCo