Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Sharat Shroff and Morgan McLean, Product Managers at Google Cloud, cover with your cohosts Francesc and Mark some of the Stackdriver tools at your disposal when you’re investigating an issue on your application. About Sharat Sharat is a product manager working on developer infrastructure for Google Cloud. He works on application monitoring and diagnostics. About Morgan Morgan is the product manager for Stackdriver Trace, and has spent much of his career working on web services and web frameworks prior to his recent arrival at Google. Morgan works out of the Kirkland, Washington office, and enjoys mountain biking and hiking in his free time. Cool thing of the week Adventures in SRE-land: Welcome to Google Mission Control blog post Inside Google’s Cloud solutions with Miles Ward | The Apps Show YouTube Interview Stackdriver docs Stackdriver Error Reporting docs Stackdriver Trace docs Stackdriver Debugger docs Stackdriver Logging docs Cloud Source Repositories docs Installing the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent

Aja Hammerly, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, discusses with your cohosts Francesc and Mark what monitoring is and how Stackdriver makes it easy on Google Cloud, other cloud providers, and even on premise. About Aja 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 Kubernetes moves onwards and upwards Kubernetes 1.3 on tap for Google Container Engine Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes - Udacity Interview Stackdriver Monitoring Documentation Stackdriver Introducing Google Stackdriver: unified monitoring and logging for GCP and AWS Using metrics Stackdriver pricing Uptime checks Six things Stackdriver brings to the DevOps table Question of the week How to keep data in sync while limiting bandwidth? gsutil rsync

Mathias Meyer, CEO of Travis CI, discusses with your cohosts Francesc and Mark what are Continuous Integration and Deployment, and how Travis CI makes them easy and accessible to all. Did you know Travis CI ran on Google Cloud Platform? About Mathias Mathias Meyer is the CEO and core member of the team running Travis CI, a hosted continuous integration and deployment platform, and the author of the Riak Handbook. His interests include coffee, photography, studies of human error and distributed systems. Cool thing of the week GitHub Making open source data more available blog post GitHub on BigQuery: Analyze all the code blog post All the open source code in GitHub now shared within BigQuery: Analyze all the code! medium Analyzing Go code with BigQuery medium Interview Travis CI homepage Continuous Integration wikipedia Extreme Programming: A Gentle Introduction page Free Travis CI for Open Source travis-ci.org Google Compute Engine to run builds docs Google Cloud Storage to cache images docs Travis t

Emily Melhuish and Lester Litchfield share with your cohosts Francesc and Mark how Trade Me, the second most visited page in New Zealand, integrates Google Analytics and BigQuery to understand their traffic and provide statistics to their users. About Emily Emily Melhuish is an Electrical Engineering student by day and a software developer by night. She works at Trade Me as a Full Stack developer in between studying at the University of Auckland where she learns how to blow circuits up. At Trade Me, her latest project was one surrounding Big Data and how to make the website data useful for their clients. They use Google Tag Manager with Google Analytics and BigQuery to provide business insights to our customers, these include real estate agents and car dealers. Her work was for car dealers. About Lester Lester Litchfield is a data scientist and web analyst for Trade Me with a background in Marketing. He’s responsible for implementing Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 360 across their sites and apps, and

Eli Bixby, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark all about TensorFlow and its applications. Do you want to know what neural networks are? Why does TensorFlow exists? How to get started with it? We cover that and more in our thirsty first episode. About Eli Eli is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google. He joined in 2014 and currently develops on Google Cloud Platform’s machine learning and big data offerings, Tensorflow in particular. Eli is an all-purpose nerd, having dabbled in several research areas, including biophysics, algorithmic game theory, and computational biology, before a recent dive into machine learning. Cool thing of the week New Google Cloud Platform Education Grants offer free credits to students announcement Interview TensorFlow homepage Artificial Neural Network wikipedia Tensors wikipedia Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip blog TensorFlow Serving GitHub Diving into Machine Learning through TensorFlow - PyCon 2016

Analytics is an essential part of many platforms, but it is specially important for gaming. Today we discuss how Google Cloud makes analytics simpler and super powerful. Kir Titievsky from Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Eric Anderson from Google Cloud Dataflow, and Tino Tereshko from Google BigQuery will tell your co-hosts Francesc and Mark how those three products get together to power an amazing analytics solution for gaming. About Kir Kir Titievsky is product manager on Google Cloud Pub/Sub which helps users build analytics pipelines & integrate services, massive and small. He has come to GCP after building mobile enterprise apps for Googlers as well as products for advertising & media agencies at DoubleClick. Before Google, Kir designed advertising recommendation engines as a data scientist. Kir once took a detour to get a PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. About Eric Eric Anderson is a product manager on Dataflow, a stream and batch data processing service. Before Dataflow, he started a growth analytic

Fresh off the press from Google I/O 2016, Francesc and Mark talk to Abe Haskins and Doug Stevenson about all the new features and improvements that have recently been announced for Firebase! About Abe Abe is a Developer Programs Engineer on the Firebase team who works closely with the Database team and contributes to many of Firebase’s open-source projects. About Doug Doug is Developer Advocate on the Firebase team, Android development specialist, and works very closely with the Crash Reporting and Test Lab components of Firebase. Cool thing of the week Introducing Google Container Engine (GKE) node pools post Interviews Firebase site Firebase Realtime Database docs Adding Firebase to your C++ Project docs Firebase Analytics docs Firebase Remote Config docs Firebase Authentication docs Firebase Cloud Messaging docs Firebase Notifications docs Firebase Test Lab for Android docs Firebase Crash Reporting docs Firebase Storage docs Google Cloud Storage docs Firebase YouTube Playlist videos Question of the we

Virtual Machines, that old technology that powers the cloud! Today Scott Van Woudenberg tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark about virtual machines and you can use them with Google Cloud Platform. About Scott Scott Van Woudenberg spent sixteen years as a software engineer and engineering lead/manager before moving over to product management. He joined Google in 2012 as a Product Manager on Google Compute Engine, mere weeks before its public alpha launch at I/O. He’s remained a PM on GCE, helping to guide and build the service into a GA product which has seen exponential growth every year since going public. Cool thing of the week Kubernetes class on Udacity post Interviews Google Compute Engine docs Virtual Machine wikipedia Google Cloud Spin: Stopping time with the power of the Cloud - Google I/O 2016 video Google Cloud Functions docs Compute Engine Pricing docs Custom Machine Types docs Resize a Persistent Disk docs Autoresizing Persistent Disks in Compute Engine blog Google Compute Engine uses Live M

John Feminella, Technical Advisor at Pivotal, tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark about unikernels: what they are, how they relate to containers, and why they are all the hype in cloud computing. About John John Feminella is an avid technologist, occasional public speaker, and curiosity advocate. He serves as an advisor to Pivotal, where he works on helping enterprises transform the way they write, operate, and deploy software. He’s also the cofounder of a tiny analytics monitoring and reporting startup named UpHex. He works with unikernels experimentally and is very interested in their application to platforms of the future. John lives in Charlottesville, VA and likes meta-jokes, milkshakes, and referring to himself in the third person in speaker bios. Cool thing of the week Firebase expands to become a unified app platform blog Open source demos from Instrument: Query It! and Emotobooth Google Cloud I/O talks playlist Firebase I/O talks playlist Interviews container.camp SF: Unikernels: Practical Adv

Gustavo Ambrozio, from Pocket Gems, tells us about how they implemented and how they run War Dragons with the power of Google Cloud Platform. Learn how an incredibly popular mobile game can scale and provide social features, analytics, while keeping high throughput that enables low latency. About Gustavo Gustavo is a software engineer from Brazil with over 20 years experience, almost 8 years of iOS experience (basically since the first iOS SDK was released) and founder of CodeCrop Software. Gustavo has worked on everything from server software, corporate systems and now is having fun living in sunny California developing mobile games for Pocket Gems. Cool thing of the week How to get your ASP.NET app up on Google Cloud the easy way blog post Interviews War Dragons is a game by PocketGems Google App Engine docs Scaling mobile games to a global audience using App Engine and Cloud Datastore GCPNext video Google Cloud Datastore docs Google Cloud Memcache docs Splitting Traffic over App Engine versions docs Go

Join us today for a conversation with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot from the Go team. They will discuss with your hosts Francesc Campoy and Mark Mandel why Go is so successful for all the things cloud and how you can use it with Google Cloud Platform. About Andrew Andrew has worked on Go at Google since almost the beginning, and has written tons of blog posts and talks on Go. He spends most of his time making Go easier to use. About Chris Chris joined the Go and Cloud teams last year to improve the experience of writing Go applications for Google Cloud Platform. Before that, he worked at Google on the Maps APIs for around five years. Cool thing of the week EVE Fanfest 2016 - Kubernetes and Google Cloud video Interviews The Go programming language web Go on Google App Engine docs Google Santa Tracker web Tweak The Turkey with a Go powered Doodle doodle gofmt command docs goimports command docs Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey YouTube Bookshelf tutorial for Go on App Engine tut

Today our guest star host, Brian Dorsey, and Mark interview Terrance Shepherd about his role as Technical Solutions Engineer working for Google Cloud Platform’s Support Team. About Terrance Terrance is a Technical Solutions Engineer working for Google Cloud Platform’s Support Team. He has been working to help customers from single person developers to Enterprises with 100’s of Developers for the last 16 months. Terrance also leads the Cloud Platform Support new product review process, where the Support team has input on usability, reliability and supportability of few product or features released. All new features and product received the Support Team’s approval before available to customers. Cool thing of the week You can now configure Pub Sub with Deployment Manager docs ISO and privacy certifications blog post More on security at cloud.google.com/security Interviews Google Cloud Platform Support: cloud.google.com/support Google Cloud SQL docs Google Cloud SQL General Log tips docs Question of the wee

Andy Oxfeld, Engineering Manager at Humble Bundle, tells your hosts Francesc and Mark all the details about how Google Cloud Platform powers Humble Bundle. About Andy Andy Oxfeld manages the engineering department at Humble Bundle. He’s been with the company for four years and worked on almost every part of our codebase at some point. Prior to being at Humble Bundle, he worked at Electronic Arts for four years on games such as Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Cool thing of the week An independent organization just ranked Google as the best cloud, beating Amazon news Interviews Humble Bundle has raised over $70 Million for charity. App Engine to handle spiky traffic. Codebase written in Python. Google Cloud Datastore to store data. Task Queues to be able to retry tasks (payments) and to schedule events. Memcache to reduce latency and increase throughput. Dedicated Memcache for heavy users and more predictable performance. Best Practices for App Engine Memcache article. Datastore Backups into a Cloud

In the twenty second episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Rae Wang, a Product Manager at Google, about IAM on the Google Cloud Platform. About Rae Rae is a product manager at Google and looks after IAM (Identity and Access Management) on GCP. She has been at Google for 3 years and is based in the Seattle office. Before Google she worked in other software companies for over a decade. Cool thing of the week Bonus interview with Brendan Burns, lead engineer on Kubernetes: Google’s open source cluster manager for containers. Latte vs. Kubernetes setup - which is faster? YouTube Kubernetes Config Maps docs Adding custom resources to the Kubernetes API server docs Kubernetes Cluster Federation (a.k.a. “Ubernetes”) docs Scaling neural network image classification using Kubernetes with TensorFlow Serving docs Episode #16, a Product Manager at Google that works amongh other projects on IAM GCPPodcast Interviews Google Cloud Identity & Access Management docs GCPNext - Identity and

In the twenty first episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview three of the engineers at Instrument, responsible for some of the amazing demos at GCP Next. Cool thing of the week Monitor your application errors with Stackdriver Error Reporting blog post Stackdriver Error Reporting docs Interviews We interviewed three engineers working at Instrument, an independent digital creative agency in Portland, Oregon. They’re on GitHub. Take a tour of GCP Next playground on YouTube: John Brown Technical Director at Instrument Overview of “Emotobooth”, “360 datacenter tour”, and “Query It” Emotobooth tweet for the GCPPodcast hosts tweet Emotobooth gist with all photos and JSON data gist Violet Peña Engineer working on Emotobooth Cloud Vision API Face Detection tutorial Landmark Detection Using Google Cloud Storage docs Nick Tzaperas Backend Developer at Instrument working on QueryIt! Query Plan Explanation docs Freebase: a community-curated database of well-known people, places, and t

In the twentieth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Justin Beckwith, a Product Manager at Google Cloud Platform, about how Node.js and the cloud work together. About Justin Justin is a Product Manager, web developer, and geek dad working on the developer experience for Google App Engine. He writes code, speaks at events, and rocks out on the ukulele. Before joining Google, he filled various developer and architect roles with startups, healthcare companies, and universities. He blogs at jbeckwith.com and twitters as @justinbeckwith. Cool thing of the week Google Cloud Datastore simplifies pricing, cuts cost dramatically for most use-cases blog post Google Cloud Datastore gets faster cross-platform API blog post Interview Node.js on Google Cloud docs Node.js on Google App Engine goes beta blog post The Node.js Docker image used by Google App Engine Managed VMs repo Google Cloud Client Library for Node.js repo and npm Experimental Node.js support for Google Cloud Trace repo Clo

In the nineteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview some of the speakers at GCP Next 2016 from the conference floor. Cool thing of the week Most videos from GCP Next 2016 are already available on YouTube. The talks are organized in the following playlists: Keynotes Solutions Showcase Sessions Infrastructure & Operations Sessions App Development Sessions Data & Analytics Sessions Interviews Mike Kavis from Cloud Technology Partners Mike Kavis is a VP/Principal Architect at CloudTP, and his current areas of focus are IoT, Big Data, and containers. He was part of the GCP partner panel: Learnings from real world cloud migration. Mike also wrote a very interesting article about GCP Next for Forbes. Mike discusses how people migrate to Google Cloud Platform and how they evolve once on it. Niels Provos from Google Niels Provos is a distinguished engineer working on security/privacy at Google. He was part of the Day 2 Keynote where he discusses what Google Cloud Platform

In the eighteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Ian Lewis, a Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate based in Tokyo about Bigtable. About Ian Ian is a Developer Advocate on the Google Cloud Platform team working out of Tokyo. Ian loves Python and Go and helps run the largest Python event in Japan, PyCon JP. Ian is also interested in Docker and Kubernetes and hopes to help Google Cloud Platform users achieve their highest potential. Cool thing of the week We’re live at GCPNext with our mics! If you’re around come say hi, and if not follow the event from one of the many local viewing parties or via the live stream. Interview Resources: Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data pdf Google Cloud Bigtable docs Differences between the HBase and Cloud Bigtable APIs docs Cloud Bigtable Pricing Question of the week How to limit what users can do on the resources of your project? Google Cloud Identity and Access Management docs

In the seventeenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Hiren Patel and Dale Humby, two Google Developer Experts who live and work in South Africa. About Hiren DevOps engineer with a long history of system administration. Currently spending all my time doing a mix of backend development on GCP with python, web frontend development, and some android mobile work. About Dale Electro-Mechanical engineer turned software developer, now leading the product development team at Nomanini, building point of sale terminals and a financial backend to provide low cost access to payment for emerging markets. Cool thing of the week We will be at GCP Next, with our mics! So come by and say hello. We’ll be doing short interviews with people, and talking to them about the podcast. Also, make sure to check out GCP Next Extended, if you can’t get to San Francisco for the event. Interview Resources: The Save-Data client hint request header docs The data trap: affordable smartphones, expensive data blo

In the sixteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Kelsey Hightower. Kelsey is a developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform and will tell us what is coming up with the next Kubernetes version. About Kelsey Kelsey has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from Programming, System Administration, and his favorite Linux distro of the month (CoreOS). Cool thing of the week Google Cloud Platform Community Slack Team Join using http://bit.ly/gcp-slack Interview Resources: Kubernetes homepage Kubernetes 1.2 release notes etcd: Distributed Key Value store by CoreOS repo The Raft Consensus Algorithm docs GKE: Google Container Engine docs Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi cluster post The Twelve-Facto