Have you ever wanted to apply Cloud Vision API (https://cloud.google.com/vision) to videos?

Well, Sara Robinson (https://twitter.com/SRobTweets) is here to tell your co-hosts

Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) and Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc)

about Cloud Video Intelligence API (https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/),

which allows you to do that and much more.

About Sara Robinson

Sara (https://twitter.com/SRobTweets) is a Developer Advocate on Google’s Cloud Platform team,

focusing on big data and machine learning.

She helps developers build awesome apps through demos, online content, and events. Sara has

a bachelor’s degree in Business and International Studies from Brandeis University.

When she’s not programming she can be found on a spin bike, listening to the Hamilton

soundtrack, or finding the best ice cream in New York.

Cool things of the week

* Getting started with Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy blog post (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/Getting-started-with-Cloud-Identity-Aware-Proxy.html)

* Distributed tracing for Go blog post (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/distributed-tracing-for-Go.html)

* 220,000 cores and counting: MIT math professor breaks record for largest ever Compute Engine job blog post (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/220000-cores-and-counting-MIT-math-professor-breaks-record-for-largest-ever-Compute-Engine-job.html)

Interview

* Announcing Google Cloud Video Intelligence API, and more Cloud Machine Learning updates announcement (https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/03/announcing-google-cloud-video-intelligence-api-and-more-cloud-machine-learning-updates)

* Cloud Video Intelligence API docs (https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/)

* Cloud Next Video Intelligence API demo

* recording YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDAoLO4G4CQ)

* blog post Hackernoon (https://hackernoon.com/get-the-code-for-the-video-intelligence-api-demo-794e7675effe)

* source code GitHub (https://github.com/sararob/video-intelligence-demo)

* Users we mentioned:

* Cantemo (http://www.cantemo.com/)

* Wix Media Platform (https://www.wixmp.com/)

* Tensorflow: An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence docs (https://www.tensorflow.org/)

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Cloud Video Intelligence API

Question of the week

Q: What is the recommended strategy for backups and restores on VMs

* Creating Persistent Disk Snapshots docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/create-snapshots)

* Google Cloud Storage Nearline docs (https://cloud.google.com/storage-nearline/)

* How to Design a Disaster Recovery Plan solution (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-a-disaster-recovery-plan#instance_snapshots)

Where can you find us next?

Mark is going to be hosting the Playcrafting + Extra Life Game Jame & Game Fest (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/playcrafting-extra-life-game-jam-tickets-32637618997), raising

money for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. Finally he’ll be in Sweden for Nordic Games Conference (http://conf.nordicgame.com/) as well.

He also recently published a blog post on Scaling Dedicated Game Servers with Kubernetes: Part 1 – Containerising and Deploying (http://www.compoundtheory.com/scaling-dedicated-game-servers-with-kubernetes-part-1-containerising-and-deploying/).

Francesc will be presenting at the New York Google Developer Group (https://www.meetup.com/gdgnyc/events/234963739/) for a Serverless event!

Francesc has also released a new Just for Func episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M90t0KvEDY), covering the implementation of the Context package!(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/jiXFC8EInRw)