Google Cloud Platform Podcast

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