Deep Kapadia (https://twitter.com/durple) and JP Robinson (https://twitter.com/jprbnsn) from New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com)
join Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) and Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) to discuss how they use Google Cloud Platform
to serve the New York Times to its readers.
About JP Robinson
JP Robinson (https://twitter.com/jprbnsn) maintains NYTâs internal and open source tools and frameworks that are related to the Go programming language.
He also lead backend development of NYTâs games platform. Recently his team completely rewrote our backend with Go and GCP tools.
In doing so theyâve managed to significantly lower request latencies and cut costs in half.
About Deep Kapadia
Deep Kapadia (https://twitter.com/durple) manages the Infrastructure and Delivery Engineering, Site Reliability and
Test Automation teams at The New York Times. His teams are responsible for providing other engineering teams
with tools and processes needed to get their jobs done on a day to day basis.
His teams recently have been working on building the GKE deployment pipeline and enabling other teams
to migrate to the Cloud from our physical datacenters and also moving their entire edge and routing
caching architecture from internally hosted varnish to Fastly. They also helped move most of their site behind HTTPS.
Cool things of the week
* Cutting cluster management fees on Google Kubernetes Engine blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/Cutting-Cluster-Management-Fees-on-Google-Kubernetes-Engine.html)
* Coming in 2018: GCPâs Hong Kong region blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/coming-in-2018-GCPs-Hong-Kong-region.html)
* Introducing an easy way to deploy containers on Google Compute Engine virtual machines blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/introducing-an-easy-way-to-deploy-containers-on-Google-Compute-Engine-virtual-machines.html)
Interview
* New York Times Crossword site (https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords)
* Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine blog (https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444)
* New York Times in 1996 webarchive (https://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://nytimes.com/)
* Google App Engine site (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/)
* Cloud Datastore site (https://cloud.google.com/datastore/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs)
* Kubernetes Engine site (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/)
* Cloud Pub/Sub site (https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/)
* Google BigQuery site (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/)
* Cloud Endpoints site (https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/)
* Drone GAE github (https://github.com/NYTimes/drone-gae)
* Drone GKE github (https://github.com/NYTimes/drone-gke)
* Marvin github (https://github.com/NYTimes/marvin/)
* openapi2proto github (https://github.com/NYTimes/openapi2proto)
* gRPC site (https://grpc.io)
* New York Time Open site (https://open.nytimes.com)
Question of the week
What best practices are there for securing a Kubernetes Engine Cluster?
* Precious cargo: Securing containers with Kubernetes Engine 1.8 blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/precious-cargo-securing-containers-with-Kubernetes-Engine-18.html)
Where can you find us next?
Mark will be Montreal in December to speak at Montreal International Games Summit (http://www.migs17.com/en/home/).
Melanie will be at NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) (https://nips.cc/) in Long Beach and will also be attending Black in AI (https://blackinai.github.io) on December 8th.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/YfluosvoMYQ)