Dan McGrath (https://twitter.com/itcmcgrath) and

Alex Dufetel (https://twitter.com/AlexDufetel) join Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) in the studio this week to discuss

Cloud Firestore, the brand new, fully-managed NoSQL document database for mobile and web app development.

About Dan McGrath

Dan McGrath (https://twitter.com/itcmcgrath) is the Product Manager for Cloud working on databases such as Cloud Firestore. Dan has spent the last decade working in product & engineering for large scale database systems. He has a background in banking software, databases, and information security.

About Alex Dufetel

Alex Dufetel (https://twitter.com/AlexDufetel) is a Product Manager for the Firebase team at Google, working on Backend-as-Service products such as the Realtime Database and Cloud Firestore. Alex was previously Director of Products at Fuze, a video conferencing and enterprise communications provider and, before that, a co-founder of LiveMinutes, a real-time team collaboration app.

Cool things of the week

* Extending per second billing in Google Cloud blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/extending-per-second-billing-in-google.html)

* PHP 7.1 for Google App Engine is generally available blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/php-71-for-google-app-engine-is.html)

* Java 8 on App Engine standard environment is now generally available blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/Java-8-on-App-Engine-Standard-environment-is-now-generally-available.html) migration (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/migrating-to-java8)

* Kubernetes 1.8: Security, Workloads and Feature Depth blog (http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/09/kubernetes-18-security-workloads-and.html)

* Google Container Engine - Kubernetes 1.8 takes advantage of the cloud built for containers blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/google-container-engine-kubernetes-18.html)

* Announcing Cloud IoT Core public beta blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-Cloud-IoT-Core-public-beta.html)

Interview

* Cloud Firestore announcement (https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/10/introducing-cloud-firestore.html) site (https://firebase.google.com/products/firestore/) docs (https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/)

* Cloud Firestore server sdks docs (https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/)

* Extend Cloud Firestore with Cloud Functions docs (https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/extend-with-functions)

* Cloud Firestore for Realtime Database Developers blog (https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/10/cloud-firestore-for-rtdb-developers.html)

* Firestore Discuss google-group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-cloud-firestore-discuss)

* Firestore Realtime Database site (https://firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database/) docs (https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/)

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Question of the week

How do I import/export data from my Cloud Datastore?

* Exporting and Importing Entities docs (https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/export-import-entities)

* Scheduling an Export docs (https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/schedule-export)

Where can you find us next?

Francesc just released a new #justforfunc (http://justforfunc.com) and he’ll be presenting at Go Meetup London (https://www.meetup.com/Go-London-User-Group/events/243800263/), Velocity London (https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-eu), Google Cloud Summit Paris (https://cloudplatformonline.com/Summit-Paris-2017.html) and Devfest Nantes (https://devfest.gdgnantes.com/)

He is heading to Australia for GDG Devfest Melbourne (http://gdgmelbourne.com/) and Game Connect Asia Pacific (http://gcap.com.au/) and will be hanging out at Unite Melbourne (https://unite.unity.com/2017/melbourne) and PAX Australia (http://aus.paxsite.com/).(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/VDmx0HHGh4c)