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 things docs

• Google Data Center 360° Tour YouTube

Question of the week

How do you use variables in Deployment Manager

• Cloud Deployment Manager docs
• Passing variables to templates docs