The delightful Sam Ramji (https://twitter.com/sramji) joins Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) and Melanie (https://twitter.com/nyghtowl) this week

to talk about Google Cloud Platform, Open Source, Distributed Systems and Philosophy and how they are all interrelated.

Sam Ramji

A 20+ year veteran of the Silicon Valley and Seattle technology scenes, Sam Ramji (https://twitter.com/sramji) is

VP Product Management for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He was the founding CEO of Cloud Foundry (https://www.cloudfoundry.org) Foundation,

was Chief Strategy Officer for Apigee (https://apigee.com) (APIC), designed and led Microsoft’s (https://www.microsoft.com) open source strategy, founded the

Outercurve Foundation (https://opensource.com/users/outercurve-foundation), and drove product strategy for

BEA WebLogic (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/index.html) Integration. Previously he built distributed

systems and client software at firms including Broderbund (http://www.broderbund.com), Fair Isaac (http://www.fico.com),

and Ofoto. He is an advisor to multiple

companies including Accenture (https://www.accenture.com), Insight Engines (https://insightengines.com),

and the Linux Foundation (http://www.linuxfoundation.org), and served on the World Economic Forum’s (https://www.weforum.org)

Industrial Internet Working Group. He received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from UCSD in 1994.

Cool things of the week

* An example escalation policy — CRE life lessons blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/01/an-example-escalation-policy-CRE-life-lessons.html)

* The new Google Arts & Culture, on exhibit now blog (https://blog.google/topics/arts-culture/the-new-google-arts-culture-on-exhibit/)

* Five Days of Kubernetes 1.9 blog (http://blog.kubernetes.io/2018/01/five-days-of-kubernetes-19.html)

* Kubernetes Comic site (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/kubernetes-comic/)

Interview

* The Case for Learned Index Structures paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208)

* CAP Theorem wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem)

* Databricks site (https://databricks.com)

* Spinnaker site (https://www.spinnaker.io)

* Tensor Processing Units site (https://cloud.google.com/tpu/)

* 38 Special - Hold On Loosely youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtf7R_oVaw)

Question of the week

I would like to run a Google Cloud Function every day/week/hour etc - but there is no cron ability in Cloud Functions (yet?). How can I do this now?

* Functions Cron github (https://github.com/firebase/functions-cron)

Where can you find us next?

Melanie is speaking at AI Congress (https://theaicongress.com/) in London Jan 30th and she will be at FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2018/) in Brussels in Feb.

Mark will be at the Game Developer’s Conference | GDC (http://www.gdconf.com/) in March.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/6HgMrXjxu1M)