Google Cloud Platform Podcast

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Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes Oct 05, 2016

Show notes

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 management at Google with Borg - dotScale 2015 - John Wilkes YouTube
Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg Google research
Bazel: Google's own build tool bazel.io
Site Reliability Engineering SRE Book
SLO: Service Level Objective Wikipedia
The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems Google Research
DiRT: Weathering the Unexpected ACM
Kubernetes homepage
Docker homepage
Paxos algorithm and etcd

Question of the week

Installing Application Default Credentials locally docs

$ gcloud beta auth application-default login Were will we be?

Francesc is today be in New York running a Go workshop on October 5th, and then he'll do a similar meetup this time online. He also will be speaking on Thursday at GDG NYC.

You can find Mark at SIEGE from October 7th to 9th

Rainforest QA with Russell Smith Sep 28, 2016

Show notes

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 Compute Engine VM medium

Interview

RainforestQA homepage
Selenium webdriver
Firebase Device Lab docs
BigQuery Stream API docs
re:dash Open Source Data Collaboration and Visualization Platform docs
BigQuery Paritioned Tables docs
Historical Data is 50% cheaper on BigQuery announcement
BigQuery standard SQL docs

Question of the week

How to react to email from Google Cloud - Receiving Emails from App Engine docs

App Engine Services docs

Compute as a Continuum gcppodcast.com

Were will we be?

You can find Mark at SIEGE from October 7th to 9th

Francesc will be in New York running a Go workshop on October 5th, and then he'll do a similar meetup this time online.

Cloud Endpoints with Dan Ciruli and Sepehr Ebrahimzadeh Sep 21, 2016

Show notes

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 Service Management docs
Google Service Control docs

gRPC gateway: gRPC to JSON proxy generator GitHub
Authentication with GitKit, Firebase Auth, Auth0
NGINX

Question of the week

Access the Google Cloud Metadata service from App Engine with the Google Compute API

gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips Sep 14, 2016

Show notes

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
CoreOS Community homepage
Swagger aka OpenAPI
gRPC streaming docs

Question of the week

Emulator for Datastore docs

Encryption with Umesh Shankar Sep 07, 2016

Show notes

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 Google Cloud Platform whitepaper
Google Cloud Storage User Provided Keys docs
Encrypting Disks with Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys docs
Homomorphic Encryption wikipedia
Homomorphic Encryption with BigQuery docs
Cloud Data Protection for the Masses research paper

Question of the week

Web serving on Google Cloud Platform: an overview blog post
Web Serving Overview solution

Descartes Labs with Tim Kelton Aug 31, 2016

Show notes

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 Medium
Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer Google Research
Preemptible VMs docs
Managed Instance Groups docs
Celery: Distributed Task Queue homepage
â€œTatooineâ€ then and now from space: 40th anniversary of filming of Star Wars Medium

Some maps

Three maps of Humboldt, Iowa in July 2016.

Cloud free image in true color

We detect fields automatically, using machine learning. This is a map of all the fields in Humbolt.

Vegetative health (using NDVI)

Question of the week

What can you get for free on Google Cloud Platform?

App Engine pricing
- 28 free instance-hours per day
Cloud Datastore pricing
- 1 GB of storage
- 50k Entity Reads
- 20k Entity Writes
- 20k Entity Deletes
Vision API pricing
- 1k units/month (a unit correspond to a feature e.g. facial detection)
BigQuery pricing
- Loading, Copying, and Exporting data is always free
- First TB of processed data in queries is free every month
PubSub pricing
- First 250M Operations: $0.40/Million

Rodeo FX with Alan Fregtman Aug 24, 2016

Show notes

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 Rodeoâ€™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 performance, security and platform support for databases (Low-latency for Google Cloud Storage Nearline storage)

Announcement

Interview

Rodeo FX has worked on many shows: demo
GCE Custom Machine Types to adapt to the movie needs docs
Preemptible VM instancesc for their reduced cost docs
Salt Stack to keep all machines configured docs
FDT: Fast Data Transfer for really fast transfer of … data docs
Creating a Google Cloud VPN docs
GlusterFS to manage their in-house file system docs

For more information:

How GCP helps Rodeo FX extending their rendering capacity, presented by Jordan Soles YouTube
Videos by Rodeo FX on vimeo

Question of the week

How to create a Managed Instance Group from a VM?

Delete your instance keeping your disk
Create a custom image from your disk docs
Create a new Instance Template with them image
Create an Managed Instance Group with the template

What if you can't delete the instance?

Create a snapshot from your running disk docs
Create a new disk from the snapshot
Go to step [2] above

PHP with Terry Ryan and Brent Shaffer Aug 17, 2016

Show notes

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

Preemptible VMs now up to 33% cheaper blog

Interview

PHP on Google Cloud Platform docs
PHP App Engine Getting Started docs
Run PHP on Compute Engine docs
Create a Guestbook with Redis and PHP on Container Engine docs
Quick Start WordPress for Google App Engine github
How to Run Symfony Hello World on App Engine docs github
Docker images for running PHP applications on the App Engine Flexible Runtime github
Cloud Launcher LAMP Stack launcher

Question of the week

How do I load balance WebSocket connection with a Google Cloud Load Balancer?

Setting Up HTTP(S) Load Balancing docs
Setting Up Network Load Balancing docs
Setting Up SSL proxy for Google Cloud Load Balancing docs
When should I use HTTPS load balancing instead of SSL proxy load balancing? faq

Site Reliability Engineering with Paul Newson Aug 10, 2016

Show notes

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 Book
Go Programming Language Homepage
Keys to SRE - SREcon14 YouTube
Adventures in SRE-land: Welcome to Google Mission Control blog

Question of the week

How Kubernetes Updates Work on GKE blog

Were will we be?

Francesc is working on a video series justforfunc
Mark will be at PAX DEV in Seattle and then Strange Loop in St Louis

GKE 1.3 with Carter Morgan Aug 03, 2016

Show notes

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