First-time host, Aja, joins Mark today to talk Go Cloud Functions with two Google colleagues! Stewart, lead Product Manager on Google Cloud Functions, and Tyler, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, start the show by explaining the purpose of Cloud Functions. It is a serverless compute product that supports many programming languages, scales automatically, and only charges for what you use. It works best as event-driven computing, in other words, when something happens, you want something else to happen in response. Cloud Functions also works well between clouds or even Google Cloud services, acting as the glue between them.

Go Cloud Functions works specifically for Go. Google makes a huge effort to make Cloud Functions easy to use for all developers, so that no matter what language you’re familiar with, Cloud Functions works for you.

Stewart Reichling

Stewart Reichling is the lead Product Manager on Google Cloud Functions. He is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and has worked across Strategy, Marketing, and Product Management at Google.

Tyler Bui-Palsulich

Tyler is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google. He graduated with his Master’s in Computer Science from NYU and loves detailed documentation, random trivia, and homemade bread. You can find his blog at buipalsulich.com

Cool things of the week

• Actually cool thing of the week twitter
• NoSQL for the serverless age: Announcing Cloud Firestore general availability and updates blog
• Site Reliability Workbook now available in HTML site
• Building a serverless online game: Cloud Hero on Google Cloud Platform blog
• The tech industry is failing people with disabilities and chronic illnesses article

Interview

• GCP Podcast Episode 34: Stackdriver monitoring with Aja Hammerly podcast
• GCP Podcast Episode 53: Ruby with Aja Hammerly podcast
• Cloud Functions site
• Cloud Scheduler site
• Firestore site
• Pub/Sub site
• Go Mod site
• App Engine site
• Open Census site
• GCP Podcast Episode 118: OpenCensus with Morgan McLean and JBD podcast
• Google Stackdriver site
• Launch/overview video video
• The Go Runtime site
• Cloud Functions Quickstarts site

Question of the week

How many ways can you run containers on GCP?

Where can you find us next?

Mark will be at GDC in March, Cloud NEXT, and ECG in April. Agones has a new website agones.dev! And he’s also back to Twitch streaming!

Aja will be at Cloud NEXT in April.