Product Manager Morgan McLean and Software Engineer JBD (https://twitter.com/rakyll) join Melanie (https://twitter.com/nyghtowl) and Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) this week

to discuss the new open source project OpenCensus (https://opencensus.io), a single distribution of libraries for metrics and distributed tracing

with minimal overhead that allows you to export data to multiple backends.

Morgan McLean

Morgan McLean is the Product Manager for Tracing, Debugging, and Profiling at Google, including OpenCensus

JBD

JBD (https://twitter.com/rakyll) leads the OpenCensus Go and our integrations with other projects.

Cool things of the week

* Introducing Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting built on Kubernetes blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Agones-open-source-multiplayer-dedicated-game-server-hosting-built-on-Kubernetes.html) github (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/agones)

* TensorFlow 1.6 release (https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.6.0) summit (https://www.tensorflow.org/dev-summit/)

* TensorFlow Object Detection on iOS youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uXMgLIlXoE&index=17&list=PLIivdWyY5sqJxnwJhe3etaK7utrBiPBQ2)

* Optimizing your Cloud Storage performance: Google Cloud Performance Atlas blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/optimizing-your-Cloud-Storage-performance-Google-Cloud-Performance-Atlas.html)

* Introducing GCP’s new interactive CLI blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-GCPs-new-interactive-CLI.html) docs (https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/alpha/interactive)

Interview

* OpenCensus site (https://opencensus.io) docs (https://opencensus.io/docs.html)

* Github Organisation github (https://github.com/census-instrumentation)

* How Google uses Census internally blog (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/03/how-google-uses-opencensus-internally.html)

* The value of OpenCensus blog (http://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/03/the-value-of-opencensus.html)

* Tracing

* Zipkin site (https://zipkin.io)

* Stackdriver site (https://cloud.google.com/trace/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/)

* jaeger github (https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

* Metrics

* Stackdriver docs (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics)

* Prometheus site (https://prometheus.io)

* Google Summer of Code site (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5240153879085056/)

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OpenCensus

Question of the week

I heard there are abilities to natively extend Kubernetes - what does that mean, and also how do I do that?

* Custom Resource Definitions reference (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/api-extension/custom-resources/) guide (https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/extend-api-custom-resource-definitions/)

* Sample Controller github (https://github.com/kubernetes/sample-controller)

* TGIK Custom Controller video series github (https://github.com/jbeda/tgik-controller) youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xo_ghCIOSY)

youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWkK-zsFtlU) youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqhKCiGsf1Y)

* An Introduction to Extending Kubernetes with CustomResourceDefinitions blog (https://blog.heptio.com/an-introduction-to-extending-kubernetes-with-customresourcedefinitions-76deb675b27a)

* memcached-operator (https://github.com/ianlewis/memcached-operator)

* etcd-operator (https://github.com/coreos/etcd-operator)

Where can you find us next?

Mark will be at the Game Developer’s Conference | GDC (http://www.gdconf.com/) in March. You can find him via the Google at GDC 2108 site (https://events.withgoogle.com/google-gdc-2018/).(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/ZCcGpMp471c)