Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Our guest today is Dr. Mario Lassnig, a software engineer working on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN! Melanie and Mark put on their physics hats as they learn all about what it takes to manage the petabytes of data involved in such a large research project.

This week we learn about how Mercari is handling migrating from an on-prem monolithic infrastructure to cloud microservices architecture with GKE. Terry and Taichi share with Melanie and Mark what drove the decision for the change, the challenges and what the team has learned from the transition. The real value for this change has been about making the platform more scalable as they grow to meet the needs of their millions of daily active users. It's another great interview we captured out of Google NEXT.

Taichi is a tech lead for the microservices platform at Mercari. Prior to Mercari, he was a backend engineer at Rakuten, building internal Platform as a Service. Mercari chose microservice architecture as their next development platform, and built two teams to proceed with the migration. One is the microservice platform team that is building a platform that can deploy any microservices, and the other is the microservice development team that are focusing on migrating the current monolithic API to microservices. Mercari use GKE as a platform and GCP as the main infrastructure for microservices.

Tonghui joined Mercari in April 2018 and is responsible for migrating the monolithic backend API to a microservice architecture. Prior to Mercari, he was a tech lead of Indeed, working on different components of the job search engine including Title Normalization, Location system, Job Search API, and more.

• How to call the Cloud AutoML API from a web app site
  • GCPPodcast Episode 108: Launchpad Studio with Malika Cantor and Peter Norvig site
• Who is this street artist? Building a graffiti artist classifier using AutoML blog
• Datastore Transactions, Batches and Perf! video and twitter
• Deploy only what you trust: introducing Binary Authorization for Google Kubernetes Engine blog

• Mercari site
• Microservices on GKE at Mercari site
• Continuous Delivery for Microservices with Spinnaker at Mercari site
• Microservices site
• GKE site
• Terraform site
• Spinnaker site
• GKE On-Prem site
  • GKE On-Prem - Managing Across Hybrid IT Environments with Open Architectures (Cloud Next '18) video
• Mercari on GitHub site
• BigQuery site
• Mercari Engineering Blog blog
• kubectl site
• Google Cloud AutoML site

Photo credit: Taichi Nakashima

How do I use my existing identity management system with Google Cloud Platform? site and blog

Mark is at Pax Dev and Pax West. Find him and say hi.

In September, Mark will be at Tokyo NEXT and Melanie will be at Deep Learning Indaba. You can find both of us at Strangeloop.

This week we learn about how Mercari is handling migrating from an on-prem monolithic infrastructure to cloud microservices architecture with GKE. Terry and Taichi share with Melanie and Mark what drove the decision for the change, the challenges and what the team has learned from the transition. The real value for this change has been about making the platform more scalable as they grow to meet the needs of their millions of daily active users. It’s another great interview we captured out of Google NEXT.

Mark and Melanie are your hosts again this week as we talk with Steren Giannini and Stewart Reichling discussing what's new with App Engine. Particularly its new second generation runtime, allowing headless Chrome, and better language support! And automatic scalability to make your life easier, too. App Engine also has an interesting way of inspiring new Google products. Tune in to learn more!

Steren Giannini is a Product Manager on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He graduated from École Centrale Lyon, France and then was CTO of a startup that created mobile and multi-device solutions. After joining Google, Steren launched Stackdriver Error Reporting and now focuses on GCP's serverless offering. Recently, Steren has been working on upgrading App Engine's auto scaling system and bringing Node.js to App Engine standard environment.

Stewart Reichling is a Product Manager on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and has worked across Strategy, Marketing and Product Management at Google. He currently works on bringing new runtimes (Python, Node.js, +more to come!) to App Engine and Cloud Functions.

• Robot dance party: How we created an entire animated short at Next '18 blog
• What's happening in BigQuery: integrated machine learning, maps, and more blog
• Protecting against the new "L1TF" speculative vulnerabilities blog

• App Engine site
• Deploying Node.js on App Engine standard environment video
• Introducing headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine blog
• Node 8 site
• Python 3.7.0 site
• App Engine PHP 7.2 Runtime Environment Beta site
• Headless Chrome site
• GCPPodcast Episode 23: Humble Bundle with Andy Oxfeld podcast
• Google Cloud Datastore site
• App Engine Task Queue site
• Ubuntu site
• gVisor site
• Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime blog
• App Engine Documentation site
• gcloud app deploy site
• To send feedback, email [email protected] or [email protected]
• App Engine Google Group forum
• Operating Serverless Apps with Google Stackdriver video
• App Engine's new auto scaling system - scheduler blog

What does it mean when the recommendation is to update your image?

• Getting Image Vulnerabilities site
• Updating Managed Instance Groups site
• Node Images site

Melanie will be at Deep Learning Indaba and Strangeloop.

Mark will be at Pax Dev and Pax West starting August 28th. In September, he'll be at Tokyo NEXT and Strangeloop.

Mark and Melanie are your hosts again this week as we talk with Steren Giannini and Stewart Reichling discussing what’s new with App Engine. Particularly its new second generation runtime, allowing headless Chrome, and better language support! And automatic scalability to make your life easier, too. App Engine also has an interesting way of inspiring new Google products. Tune in to learn more!

Mark Mandel is in the guest seat today as Melanie and our old pal Francesc interview Cyril Tovena of Ubisoft and Mark about Agones. We discuss dedicated game servers and their importance in game performance, how Agones can make hosting and scaling dedicated game servers easier to manage, and the future of Agones. Cyril and Mark elaborate on Ubisoft's relationship with Google and how it's progressing the world of gaming. Listen in!

Mark Mandel is a Developer Advocate for Games for Google Cloud Platform, founder of the open source, multiplayer dedicated game server scaling project Agones, and one half of the Google Cloud Platform Podcast. Hailing from Australia, Mark built his career developing backend systems for over 15 years, writing open source software, and building infrastructure in the cloud.

Cyril Tovena is a Technical Lead for the online group for Ubisoft Montreal, helping game productions to build online features in the last four years. Cyril started his career eight years ago, building web services in London. He is currently designing and implementing scalable microservices in the cloud.

• Introducing App Engine Second Generation runtimes and Python 3.7 blog
• Cloud Functions serverless platform is generally available blog
• GOTO 2018 • The Robustness of Go • Francesc Campoy video
• Simple backup and replay of streaming events using Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Dataflow blog
• Calling Java developers: Spring Cloud GCP 1.0 is now generally available blog

• Agones Github site
• Agones on Twitter twitter
• Agones: Scaling Multiplayer Dedicated Game Servers with Kubernetes talk from NEXT 2018 video
• Ubisoft site
• Kubernetes site
• GKE site
• Go site
• dep site
• Agones Contributing Guide site
• Developing, Testing, and Building Agones site
• Agones Slack Channel site
• Agones Google Group site

Francesc answers our question of the week, "Should you do ML in Go?". Short answer? Probably not. Python may be the better choice. If you do want to experiment with Go and ML, try Gonum, Gorgonia, or TensorFlow for Go.

Francesc will be at GopherCon, GoSF, and Velocity.

Melanie will be at Deep Learning Indaba and Strangeloop.

Mark will be at Pax Dev and Pax West starting August 28th. In September, he'll be at Tokyo NEXT and Strangeloop.

Mark Mandel is in the guest seat today as Melanie and our old pal Francesc interview Cyril Tovena of Ubisoft and Mark about Agones. We discuss dedicated game servers and their importance in game performance, how Agones can make hosting and scaling dedicated game servers easier to manage, and the future of Agones. Cyril and Mark elaborate on Ubisoft’s relationship with Google and how it’s progressing the world of gaming. Listen in!

On this episode of the podcast we continue a conversation we started with Haben Girma, an advocate for equal rights for people with disabilities, regarding the value of tech accessibility. Melanie and Mark talk with her about common challenges and best practices when considering accessibility in technology design and development. Bottom line - we need one solution that works for all.

The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma advocates for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. President Obama named her a White House Champion of Change, and Forbes recognized her in Forbes 30 Under 30. Haben travels the world consulting and public speaking, teaching clients the benefits of fully accessible products and services. Haben is a talented storyteller who helps people frame difference as an asset. She resisted society's low expectations, choosing to create her own pioneering story. Because of her disability rights advocacy she has been honored by President Obama, President Clinton, and many others. Haben is also writing a memoir that will be published by Grand Central Publishing in 2019. Learn more at habengirma.com.

• Istio reaches 1.0: ready for prod blog
• Google for Nigeria: Making the internet more useful for more people blog
  • GCPPodcast Episode 17: The Cloud In Africa with Hiren Patel and Dale Humby podcast
• Access Google Cloud services, right from IntelliJ IDEA blog

• Haben Girma's website site
• Haben Girma's presentation at NEXT video
• GCPPodcast Episode 100: Vint Cerf: past, present, and future of the internet podcast
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) site
• Android Accessibility Guidelines site
• Apple Developer Accessibility Guidelines site
• Black in AI site
• Google Accessibility site
• San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind site
• National Federation of the Blind site
• National Association of the Deaf site

How do I perform large scale mutations in BigQuery? blog and site

Mark will be at Pax Dev and Pax West starting August 28th. In September, he'll be at Tokyo NEXT.

Melanie is at Def Con, Black Hat, and BSides Las Vegas. In September, she will be at Deep Learning Indaba.

On this episode of the podcast we continue a conversation we started with Haben Girma, an advocate for equal rights for people with disabilities, regarding the value of tech accessibility. Melanie and Mark talk with her about common challenges and best practices when considering accessibility in technology design and development. Bottom line - we need one solution that works for all.

Let's talk container security! This week, Melanie and Mark learn all about the three main pillars of container security and more with our guest, Maya Kaczorowski.

Maya is a Product Manager in Security & Privacy at Google, focused on container security. She previously worked on encryption at rest and encryption key management. Prior to Google, she was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, working in IT security for large enterprises and before that, completed her Master's in mathematics focusing on cryptography and game theory. She is bilingual in English and French.

• What a week! 105 announcements from Google Cloud Next '18 blog
• Keynotes, Keynote Fireside Chats, & Spotlight Sessions: Google Cloud Next '18 videos
• All Sessions: Google Cloud Next '18 videos
• Sign up for NEXT '19 updates site
• GKE On-Prem site
• Edge TPU site

• Def Con site
• Black Hat site
• BSides Las Vegas site
• Cloud KMS site
• Kubernetes site
• GCPPodcast Episode 46: Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes podcast
• Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg research
• Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime blog
• Kata Containers site
• Nabla Containers site
• Google Container Registry site
• GKE security overview doc
• KubeCon site
• Container security blog series blog
• GKE hardening guide doc
• Seccompsandbox wiki
• Docker seccomp profile site
• Using RBAC in Kubernetes blog
• Terraform site
• Helm site
• Google Container Registry: Getting Image Vulnerabilities doc
• Container security overview site
• GCPPodcast Episode 110: CPU Vulnerability Security with Matt Linton and Paul Turner podcast

How do I setup SSL termination on Kubernetes with Let's Encrypt?

• GitHub: Tutorial for installing cert-manager to get HTTPS certificates from Let's Encrypt site
• Ahmet Alp Balkan, DPE on Google Cloud

Mark will be at Pax Dev and Pax West starting August 28th.

Melanie will be at the 2018 Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp at Berkeley on August 6th.