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:

• YouTube Channel
• 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.