Google Cloud Platform Podcast

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Customer Engineers with Jonathan Cham Jul 26, 2017

Show notes

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 GCP blog

Interview

Contact Google Cloud Platform contact
Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering announcement
We're hiring Strategic Customer Engineer Google Careers
Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets Google Research

Question of the week

How can I attend GCP meetups without traveling? GCP Online Meetup:

Where can you find us next?

Francesc will be at the July GoSF Meetup.

Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.

Broad Institute and Platinum Customers with Lukas Karlsson and Mike Altarace Jul 19, 2017

Show notes

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 Update) youtube podcast

Interview

Broad Institute site
Google Cloud Storages home docs
Pre-emptible Virtual Machines site docs
Google Cloud Platinum Support support
Customer Reliability Engineers podcast
Gaining full control over your organization's cloud resources (Google Cloud Next '17) youtube

Question of the week

If I want to run a single node development Kubernetes cluster, and I don't want to pay for a Network LoadBalancer as well - how do I expose services?

NodePort Services docs
Configure a static IP for a Ingress Service docs

Where can you find us next?

Francesc will be at the July GoSF Meetup.

Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.

Istio with Varun Talwar and Sven Mawson Jul 12, 2017

Show notes

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 microservices with the Istio service mesh blog
istioctl kube-inject docs

Where can you find us next?

Francesc will be at GopherCon in Denver. He also recently released the Go Tooling in Action workshop and a new justforfunc episode!

Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York with Phoenix One Games in July, as well as TA'ing the Kubernetes Bootcamp. He also released the second blog post in his series about running Game Servers on Kubernetes.

Kaggle with Wendy Kan Jul 05, 2017

Show notes

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 find the landmines in a service - CRE life lessons blog post
How HBO's Silicon Valley built "Not Hotdog" with mobile TensorFlow, Keras & React Native Hackernoon

Interview

Kaggle home page
Kaggle Competitions list
Kaggle Datasets list
Tensorflow: An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence tensorflow.org
Keras: The Python Deep Learning library keras.io

Question of the week

How do you do client side load balancing with gRPC and Kubernetes?

Ray Tsang answers with a GitHub repo

Where can you find us next?

Francesc will be at GopherCon in Denver!

Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York with Phoenix One Games in July.

Public Datasets with Mike Hamberg and Will Curran Jun 27, 2017

Show notes

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
Google Cloud Storage site
Reddit BigQuery subreddit
TIL BigQuery site
Have a public dataset you want to make public, email gcp-public-data@google.com

Question of the week

I need better visualisation into my billing and product usage - what can I do?

Visualize GCP Billing using BigQuery and Data Studio blog dashboard demo

Where can you find us next?

Francesc be running a workshop at QCon New York on Go tooling based on this video, after that he'll be at GopherCon in Denver!

Mark will be hosting the Playcrafting Playtest Night in San Francisco and speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York with in July.

Prometheus with Julius Volz Jun 21, 2017

Show notes

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 as a service github
Prometheus Federation docs
Prometheus Conference, PromCon 2017 site

Question of the week

I didn't put enough log statements in my application, and now things are broken. Help!?

Using Debug Logpoints docs youtube

Where can you find us next?

Francesc just released a new #justforfunc episode where he builds a Twitter bot that runs for free on GCP.

He will be running a workshop at QCon New York on Go tooling based on this video, after that he'll be at GopherCon in Denver!

Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York in July.

Cloud Dataflow with Frances Perry Jun 14, 2017

Show notes

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

Question of the week

How can I connect all the instances in a Managed Instance Group to CloudSQL securely?

Connecting MySQL Client from Compute Engine
About the Cloud SQL Proxy
CloudSQL Proxy GitHub repo

Where can you find us next?

Francesc just released a new #justforfunc episode where he explains how to use cgo.

He will be running a workshop at QCon New York on Go tooling based on this video, after that he'll be at GopherCon in Denver!

Mark is still on vacation - but don't worry, he'll be back soon!

Spinnaker with Steven Kim and Christopher Sanson Jun 07, 2017

Show notes

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 Ahmet Alp Balkan
Know thy enemy: how to prioritize and communicate risks - CRE life lessons blog post
- #72 Customer Reliability Engineering with Luke Stone gcppodcast
Sherol Chen's page on Machine Learning Eliza Effect

Interview

Spinnaker spinnaker.io
Spinnaker 1.0: a continuous delivery platform for cloud announcement
Release Engineering chapter of the SRE book
Deploying the Netflix API Netflix Tech Blog
Spinnaker on Google Cloud Deployment Manager

Spinnaker Meetup in San Francisco meetup.com
Join the Spinnaker Channel on Slack join.spinnaker.io

Question of the week

Could you clarify the pricing model for Google Cloud Source Repositories?

Cloud Source Repositories Pricing and Quota

Where can you find us next?

Francesc will be running a workshop at QCon New York on Go tooling based on this video, after that he'll be at GopherCon in Denver!

Mark is going on vacation for a few weeks - but

Container Builder with Christopher Sanson and David Bendory May 31, 2017

Show notes

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

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 Cloud Container Builder blog
gcloud container builds submit docs
Container Builder: Build Steps docs github
Container Builder: Build Triggers docs
Container Builder: Free Tier pricing
Container Builder: Querying Build History docs
Container Builder: Tracking Build Updates Using Cloud Pub/Sub docs
Contact the Container Builder team: email, stackoverflow, #cloudbuild channel slack.
Follow up Spinnaker episode will be out next week

Question of the week

How do I make sure that my Compute Engine instances start quickly so that I can autoscale quickly?

GCE Startup Scripts docs
Improving GCE boot times with custom images blog

Where can you find us next?

Francesc released a new Just For Func Episode, and will be teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires (here are the North American locations) and running a workshop at QCon New York

Mark is going on vacation for a few weeks - but don't worry, he'll still be on the podcast!

Firebase at I/O 2017 with James Tamplin and Andrew Lee May 24, 2017

Show notes

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 connecting and managing IoT devices at scale announcement product

Interview

Firebase
What's new from Firebase at Google I/O 2017 blog
Previous episodes on Firebase
- Episode #29
- Episode #13
Firebase Phone Authentication web android ios
Firebase Hosting and Cloud Functions docs
Build Modern Apps with Firebase and Google Cloud Platform (Google I/O '17) youtube
Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs announcement github
Firebase performance monitoring site docs
Firebase SDKs for Unity and C++
Firebase Test Lab for Games docs
Google Analytics for Firebase docs
Android Instance Apps site
Try Google BigQuery today: Now with 10GB of free storage announcement
Firebase Analytics Stream and Debug View announcement stream debug
Firebase at Google I/O 2017 presentations