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Kubernetes 1.3 with Carter Morgan Jul 27, 2016

Show notes

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 initContainers
Thousand Instances of Cassandra using Kubernetes Pet Set blog
Google Container Engine (GKE) docs
Creating a Raspberry Pi cluster running Kubernetes, the shopping list blog
Kubernetes The Hard Way workshop
Kubernetes Secrets docs
Kubernetes Config Maps docs

Question of the week

Making Kubernetes IP addresses static on Google Container Engine blog

Stackdriver Diagnostics Tools with Sharat Shroff and Morgan McLean Jul 20, 2016

Show notes

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 (for GCE and AWS) docs
Stackdriver Trace Analysis Reports docs
GCPNext: Spend Less Time Diagnosing And More Time Developing YouTube

Question of the week

What are all the ways you can set environment variables?

App Engine Environment Variables Go, Python, Java, and PHP
Kubernetes ConfigMap docs
Kubernetes Secrets user guide
Storing and Retrieving Instance Metadata docs

Stackdriver monitoring with Aja Hammerly Jul 13, 2016

Show notes

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

Interview

Question of the week

How to keep data in sync while limiting bandwidth? gsutil rsync

Continuous Integration on Travis CI with Mathias Meyer Jul 06, 2016

Show notes

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 the Tractor, from Bob the Builder.

Question of the week

Where do I go if I want to get involved with specific parts of the Kubernetes community? Kubernetes Special Interest Groups

Correction

Francesc will be in GopherCon next week, not this one. Clearly he doesn't know how calendars work.

Google Analytics and BigQuery at Trade Me Jun 29, 2016

Show notes

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 using that data to tell the story of how their users behave. He uses BigQuery most weeks to answer tough questions, and for AB testing. He's also exploring Google Cloud Platform for text analysis, image analysis and machine learning applications.

Cool thing of the week

Custom encoding: Go implementation in net/rpc vs grpc and why we switched post
The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes adorable

Interview

Trade Me homepage
Google Analytics docs
Google Analytics 360 docs
Google Tag Manager docs
BigQuery docs

Question of the week

Three Simple Steps to Save Costs when Prototyping with App Engine Flexible Environment medium

TensorFlow with Eli Bixby Jun 22, 2016

Show notes

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 video
TensorFlow workshop materials GitHub
TensorFlow tutorials docs
Generative Adversarial Networks research paper
DCGAN in Tensorflow GitHub

Question of the week

Offline Media Import to Google Cloud Storage docs
Google Cloud Interconnect docs

Gaming Analytics Platform with Kir Titievsky, Eric Anderson, and Tino Tereshko Jun 15, 2016

Show notes

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 analytics team in Google Cloud. Previously he worked at AWS and GE. Eric holds an engineering degree from the University of Utah and MBA from Harvard.

About Tino

Tino Tereshko is a Technical Program Manager for BigQuery, the world's only serverless analytics Data Warehouse. Before joining the BigQuery team, Tino worked with strategic cloud customers as a Solutions Architect. Prior to Google, Tino worked in stream processing, financial analytics, and even spent some time as a quant developer.

Cool thing of the week

BigQuery 1.11, now with Standard SQL, IAM, and partitioned tables! post

Interview

Building a Mobile Gaming Analytics Platform - a Reference Architecture docs

Google Cloud Pub/Sub docs
Google Cloud Dataflow docs
Google BigQuery docs
ETL: Extract, transform, load Wikipedia
Apache Beam Project docs
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters research paper
The Dataflow Model: A Practical Approach to Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Massive-Scale, Unbounded, Out-of-Order Data Processing research paper
Pushing the Limits of BigQuery video

Question of the week

Google BigQuery Public Datasets docs
The first TB is free! pricing

The New Firebase with Abe Haskins and Doug Stevenson Jun 08, 2016

Show notes

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 week

StackDriver Monitoring docs
StackDriver Logging docs
StackDriver Error Reporting docs
StackDriver Debugging docs
StackDriver Trace docs
Google Cloud Intellij Plugin (ALPHA!) github
Diagnostics - Spend less time diagnosing and more time developing video

Virtual Machines with Scott Van Woudenberg Jun 01, 2016

Show notes

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 Migration technology to service infrastructure without application downtime post
Google Cloud Platform Locations map

Question of the week

Creating Datastore Backups docs
Scheduled Backups docs
Creating a Cloud Datastore backup in BigQuery docs

Where can you find us next?

Mark will then be at Change the Game SF on Friday!
Francesc will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle and if you want you can donate.

Unikernels with John Feminella May 25, 2016

Show notes

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 Advice for Juggling Chainsaws video
Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System ACM
http://unikernel.org
Amir Chaudhry talk at Craft Conf notes
Unikernel on Google Compute Engine: Running an OSv Unikernel Tomcat Server medium
MirageOS, a unikernel for OCaml
RumpRun supports other languages like C, C++, Go, Javascript, Python, etc.
Unikernels are unfit for production blog

Question of the week

How can I generate Google Cloud Deployment Manager files from my current architecture? GitHub

Where can you find us next?

Mark will then be at Change the Game SF
Francesc will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle and if you want you can donate.

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