Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Viktor Gamov is on the podcast today to discuss Confluent and Kafka with Mark and special first-time guest host, Michelle. Viktor spends time with Mark and Melanie explaining how Kafka allows you to stream and process data in real-time, and how Kafka helps Confluent with its advanced streaming capabilities. Confluent Cloud helps connect Confluent and cloud platforms such as Google Cloud so customers don’t have to manage anything - Confluent takes care of it for you!

To wrap up the show, Michelle answers our question of the week about Next 2019.

Joanna Smith and Alicia Williams talk G Suite with Mark and Melanie this week! G Suite is Google's collection of apps to help make working easier. It includes things like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and more and is designed to be collaborative. It's customizable, allowing users to adjust the programs to their needs and be more effective – including integrating it with Google Cloud! G Suite has an active community of developers building add-ons to increase functionality as well.

Joanna is a Developer Advocate for G Suite, working to make sure that anyone can extend G Suite with clever solutions to make Google work for them.

Alicia is an advocate for Google Cloud, trying to help data analysts solve problems. She uses machine learning, SQL, and visualizations to help solve problems and tell stories.

• A dataset of congressional bills and built a text classification model with AutoML Natural Language by Sara Robinson tweet and blog
• Serverless from the ground up: Connecting Cloud Functions with a database (Part 3) blog
• How 20th Century Fox uses ML to predict a movie audience blog
• Kick off developer projects with improved G Suite Developer Hub blog
• This multiplayer game integrates Open Match, a highly-scalable, open source matchmaking framework from Google Cloud, Unity tweet, and Google Doodle
• Happy Anniversary, Melanie!

• G Suite site
• Google Sheets site
• G Suite on Google Plus site
• G Suite Marketplace site
• G Suite on Github site
• G Suite APIs site
• G Suite App Maker site
• Building IoT Applications on Google Cloud video
• Firestore Google Apps Script Library site
• Build on G Suite site
• Advanced Services Documentation site
• BigQuery site
• New Google Sheets enterprise data integrations with BigQuery and SAP blog
• Analyze big data within Google Sheets site
• Analyzing text in a Google Sheet using Cloud Natural Language API and Apps Script blog
• Entity sentiment analysis on text data in a Google sheet using Cloud Natural Language Github site

What if I want to write a code sample with a link that opens the Cloud Console and automatically clones a Git repository into Cloud Shell?

Alicia will be at DevFest.

Mark will be at KubeCon in December.

Melanie will be at SOCML this month.

Joanna Smith and Alicia Williams talk G Suite with Mark and Melanie this week! G Suite is Google’s collection of apps to help make working easier. It includes things like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and more and is designed to be collaborative. It’s customizable, allowing users to adjust the programs to their needs and be more effective – including integrating it with Google Cloud! G Suite has an active community of developers building add-ons to increase functionality as well.

Happy Halloween! On this not-so-spooky episode of the Google Cloud Podcast, Melanie and Mark talk with Tony Aiuto of Bazel. Bazel grew from Google's internal build system, Blaze, to become the open source Bazel that it is today. The aim of the project is to quickly make very large builds across multiple languages.

Tony is the tech-lead/manager for Bazel Product Excellence. He works on removing what enterprise users see as barriers to adoption. Tony's efforts are on bridging the gap between the piece of open source code that the developers see and the product that users want to see.

Where can I donate if I'm angry or sad by last week's news?

• Time's Up Now site
• Project Alloy site
• MeToo Stem site
• HIAS site
• ADL site
• Protest NIPS conference name site

• Bazel site
• BazelCon site
• Bazel on GitHub site
• Bazel Discuss on Google Groups site
• Bazel on Slack site
• Tweag site
• Tweag Haskell Rules site

• It's Halloween!
• And it's the 3rd anniversary of the podcast!
• Gain insights about your GCP resources with asset inventory blog
• Introducing the Cloud KMS plugin for HashiCorp Vault blog
• Serverless from the ground up: Adding a user interface with Google Sheets (Part 2) blog
• Cyber Security for the Previous Generation blog
• The Red Sox won the World Series!

Mark will be at KubeCon in December.

Melanie will be at SOCML in November.

Happy Halloween! On this not-so-spooky episode of the Google Cloud Podcast, Melanie and Mark talk with Tony Aiuto of Bazel. Bazel grew from Google’s internal build system, Blaze, to become the open source Bazel that it is today. The aim of the project is to quickly make very large builds across multiple languages.

On the podcast today, we have two more fascinating interviews from Melanie's time at Deep Learning Indaba! Mark helps host this episode as we speak with Karim Beguir and Muthoni Wanyoike about their company, Instadeep, the wonderful Indaba conference, and the growing AI community in Africa.

Instadeep helps large enterprises understand how AI can benefit them. Karim stresses that it is possible to build advanced AI and machine learning programs in Africa because of the growing community of passionate developers and mentors for the new generation. Muthoni tells us about Nairobi Women in Machine Learning and Data Science, a community she is heavily involved with in Nairobi. The group runs workshops and classes for AI developers and encourages volunteers to participate by sharing their knowledge and skills.

Karim Beguir helps companies get a grip on the latest AI advancements and how to implement them. A graduate of France's Ecole Polytechnique and former Program Fellow at NYU's Courant Institute, Karim has a passion for teaching and using applied mathematics. This led him to co-found InstaDeep, an AI startup that was nominated at the MWC17 for the Top 20 global startup list made by PCMAG. Karim uses TensorFlow to develop Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning products. Karim is also the founder of the TensorFlow Tunis Meetup. He regularly organises educational events and workshops to share his experience with the community. Karim is on a mission to democratize AI and make it accessible to a wide audience.

Muthoni Wanyoike is the team lead at Instadeep in Kenya. She is Passionate about bridging the skills gap in AI in Africa and does this by co-organizing the Nairobi Women in Machine Learning community. The community enables learning, mentorship, networking, and job opportunities for people interested in working in AI. She is experienced in research, data analytics, community and project management, and community growth hacking.

• Is there life on other planets? Google Cloud is working with NASA's Frontier Development Lab to find out blog
• In this Codelab, you will learn about StarCraft II Learning Environment project and to train your first Deep Reinforcement Learning agent. You will also get familiar some of the concepts and frameworks to get to train a machine learning agent. site
• A new course to teach people about fairness in ML blog
• Serverless from the ground up: Building a simple microservice with Cloud Functions (Part 1) blog
• Superposition Podcast from Deep Learning Indaba with Omoju Miller and Nando de Freitas tweet and video

• Instadeep site
• Nairobi Women in Machine Learning and Data Science site
• Neural Information Processing Systems site
• Google Launchpad Accelerator site
• TensorFlow site
• Google Assistant site
• Cloud AutoML site
• Hackathon Lagos site
• Deep Learning Book book
• Ranked Reward: Enabling Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization research paper
• Lessons learned on building a tech community blog
• Kenya Open Data Initiative site
• R for Data Science GitHub site and book
• TWIML Presents Deep Learning Indaba site

If I want to create a GKE cluster with a specific major kubernetes version (or even just the latest) using the command line tools, how do I do that?

• GCloud container clusters create site
• Specifying cluster version site

Our guests will be at Indaba 2019 in Kenya.

Mark will be at KubeCon in December.

Melanie will be at SOCML in November.

On the podcast today, we have two more fascinating interviews from Melanie’s time at Deep Learning Indaba! Mark helps host this episode as we speak with Karim Beguir and Muthoni Wanyoike about their company, Instadeep, the wonderful Indaba conference, and the growing AI community in Africa.

Instadeep helps large enterprises understand how AI can benefit them. Karim stresses that it is possible to build advanced AI and machine learning programs in Africa because of the growing community of passionate developers and mentors for the new generation. Muthoni tells us about Nairobi Women in Machine Learning and Data Science, a community she is heavily involved with in Nairobi. The group runs workshops and classes for AI developers and encourages volunteers to participate by sharing their knowledge and skills.

Mark and Melanie speak with Patrick Flynn and Mike Eltsufin about their exciting new Java products for Google Cloud. Mike tells us all about the new Spring Cloud GCP, a helpful tool that integrates Google Cloud Platform APIs and the Spring Framework. Patrick elaborates on his team's new tool, Jib, a Java container image builder, and how it helps Java developers.

Patrick Flynn is a long time Java developer who spent many years in Google Ads, and is now four years into being the tech lead of the Google Cloud Java Tools team.

Mike Eltsufin has been an enterprise Java application developer in the banking sector for over a decade before joining Google. Currently, he's the tech lead of the Cloud Java Frameworks team, focusing on bringing the goodness of Spring Boot to Google Cloud Java developers.

• Introducing container-native load balancing on Google Kubernetes Engine blog
• Simplifying cloud networking for enterprises: announcing Cloud NAT and more blog
• Store it, analyze it, back it up: Cloud Storage updates bring new replication options blog
• Postmortems and Retrospectives with Liz and Seth video
  • GCP Podcast Episode 127: SRE vs Devops with Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo podcast

• App Engine site
• Kubernetes Engine site
• Spring Framework site
• Spring Boot site
• Spring Cloud GCP site
• Spring Cloud GCP on GitHub site
• Cloud Pub/Sub site
• Spanner site
• Cloud Sql site
• Cloud Datastore site
• Docker site
• Jib on GitHub site
• Cloud Tools for IntelliJ Documentation site
• Introducing Jib — build Java Docker images better blog
• Bazel site
• Skaffold on GitHub site
• Netty site
• SpringOne site
• Knative and riff for Spring Developers video
• Jib Gitter site
• Sig Apps site
• Kubernetes Slack site
• Codelabs site

What if we have an object in Google Cloud Storage, and I want to automatically change an aspect of it – such as:

• Downgrade the storage class of objects older than 365 days to Coldline Storage.
• Delete objects created before January 1, 2013.
• Keep only the 3 most recent versions of each object in a bucket with versioning enabled.

Managing Object Lifecycles docs and guide

Patrick's team will be at KubeCon Shanghai and Oracle Code One and he will be at KubeCon Seattle

Mark will be at KubeCon in December.

Melanie will be at Twilio Signal $BASH event on Thursday and SOCML in November.

Mark and Melanie speak with Patrick Flynn and Mike Eltsufin about their exciting new Java products for Google Cloud. Mike tells us all about the new Spring Cloud GCP, a helpful tool that integrates Google Cloud Platform APIs and the Spring Framework. Patrick elaborates on his team’s new tool, Jib, a Java container image builder, and how it helps Java developers.

Melanie and Mark celebrate their 150th episode this week with a high-energy interview of mutual friend, KF, at Strange Loop. KF gives her perspective on Strange Loop, working remotely, and distributed systems. She compliments Strange Loop for the diversity it has achieved as the conference has grown. She laments the lack of introductory material for distributed systems learners, saying it's not as complicated as everyone thinks but needs more educational material for beginners! In general, she believes everyone could benefit from some code study, especially if you can find a good mentor. KF also gives us some great tips for working remotely and staying effective and social.

KF is a senior engineer focusing on backend, infrastructure, and data engineering. She has worked remotely for companies at all stages of growth in San Francisco, New York City, Portland, and Philadelphia. Most recently, she's been a Senior Software Engineer at Turbine Labs, developing tools that leverage a service mesh to make collaboration more effective for engineering teams. KF currently lives with her cat in Portland, OR.

• Introducing PyTorch across Google Cloud blog
• Is that a device driver, golf driver, or taxi driver? Building custom translation models with AutoML Translate blog
• A developer onramp to Kubernetes with GKE blog
• Network controls in GCP vs. on-premises: Not so different after all blog

• Strange Loop site
• Kubernetes site
• Docker site
• SRE site
• GCP Podcast Episode 102: Smart Parking and IoT Core with Brian Granatir podcast

How do I encrypt and decrypt data with Cloud KMS? Symmetric and Asymmetric

Mark will definitely be at Kubecon in December. Mark streams on Twitch streaming.

Melanie will be at CAMLIS.

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