Myles Borins (https://twitter.com/mylesborins) talks with Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) and Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) about Node.js from its history, how to contribute, the consensus-seeking governance, and why it’s important to Google Cloud Platform.

Node.js is an open-source, JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, and Google is a Platinum Member of the Node.js Foundation.

About Myles Borins

Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, and maker he works for Google as a developer advocate serving the Node.js ecosystem he graduated with a Master of Music Science and Technology from c.c.r.m.a. a.k.a the center for computer research in music and acoustics

Cool things of the week

* Reduced GPU prices on GCP and preemptible local SSDs blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/new-lower-prices-for-GPUs-and-preemptible-Local-SSDs.html)

* Skylake processors now available in 7 regions blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/Skylake-processors-now-available-in-seven-regions.html)

* New Episodes of Learn TensorFlow and Deep Learning, without a PhD:

* Modern Convolutional Neural Nets video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaL1I2BD_xY&feature=youtu.be)

* Modern RNN Architectures video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzOzmxCR37I)

* Deep Reinforcement Leanring video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRKOJHRbXeo)

Interview

* Node.js site (https://nodejs.org/en/)

* Node.js on Google Cloud Platform site (https://cloud.google.com/nodejs) docs (https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/docs/)

* Node School site (https://nodeschool.io/)

* Node.js with Justin Beckwith podcast (https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-20-nodejs-with-justin-beckwith/)

* App Engine site (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/)

* Cloud Functions site (https://cloud.google.com/functions/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/)

* Kubernetes Engine site (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/) doc (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/)

* Introduction to Kubernetes: How to Deploy a Node.js Docker App site (https://www.sitepoint.com/kubernetes-deploy-node-js-docker-app/)

* Socket.io site (https://socket.io/docs/)

Question of the week

How do you give public postmordems?

* Fearless shared postmortems - CRE life lessons blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/fearless-shared-postmortems-CRE-life-lessons.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 SOCML (Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning) end of this week and NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) (https://nips.cc/) in Long Beach next week.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/TEDpfzIZUzY)