In the eighth episode of this podcast and last of 2015, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Felipe Hoffa. Felipe is a developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform and he specializes in Big Data.

About Felipe

In 2011 Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on Big Data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.

Cool thing of the week

• Cloud SQL second generation docs and announcement blog post

Interview

• BigQuery docs
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters research paper
• Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets research paper
• Cloud DataFlow docs
• FlumeJava: Easy, Efficient Data-Parallel Pipelines research paper
• MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale research paper
• Cloud Datalab docs
• Jupyter project homepage
• Cloud BigTable docs
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data research paper
• Google Cloud Genomics docs and 23andme homepage
• Hey I just met you ... tweet
• BigQuery subreddit

Question of the week

• App Engine environment variables docs
• Kubernetes secrets docs
• Google Compute Engine metadata docs
• App Engine example code to access project metadata
• Google Cloud Storage Security and Privacy considerations docs