Google Cloud Platform Podcast

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.

It's the third and final day for us at NEXT, and Mark and Melanie are wrapping up with some great interviews! First, we spoke with Stephanie Cueto and Vivian San of Techtonica, a San Francisco non-profit. Next, Liz Fong-Jones and Nikhita Raghunath joined us for a quick discussion about open source and Stackdriver and last but not least, Robert Kubis helped us close things sharing what it means to do DevRel at this event.

Stephanie Cueto is a Software Engineer and advocate for the Latinx & women community. She has been involved in the Tech community since 2016. Playing with code at an early age and working in education led to my interest in becoming a Software Engineer. Currently she is a Software Engineer Apprentice at Techtonica, where she has gained the skills to build projects in MongoDb, MySQL, Express.js, React, and Node.js. During the program, she created Salient Alert, a platform for reporting ICE Raids and Checkpoints.

Vivian San is a highly analytical full-stack software engineer with an educational background in the hard sciences. She is strongly motivated by writing clean, efficient code, and passionate about teaching and giving back to underrepresented individuals and communities.

Liz Fong-Jones is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google and works on the Google Cloud Customer Reliability Engineering team in New York. In her 10+ years at Google she has worked across eight different teams spanning the stack from Google Flights to Cloud Bigtable. She lives with her wife, Metamour, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix in Brooklyn. In her spare time she plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.

Nikhita Raghunath is an intern at Red Hat and works on the extensibility of Kubernetes. Previously, she was a Google Summer of Code (2017) student for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and also worked on Kubernetes. She is interested in backend applications, distributed systems and Linux. Nikhita likes programming in Go, C++, C, and Python. She also likes to give talks at conferences and speak about her work.

Robert Kubis is a developer advocate for the Google Cloud Platform based in London, UK, specializing in container, storage, and scalable technologies. Before joining Google, Robert collected over 10 years of experience in software development and architecture. He has driven multiple full-stack application developments at SAP with a passion for distributed systems, containers, and databases. In his spare time he enjoys following tech trends, trying new restaurants, traveling, and improving his photography skills.

• Made Here Together: NEXT Developer Keynote video
• Techtonica site
• I am Remarkable Workshop site
• Haben Girma's accessibility presentation at NEXT video
• GCPPodcast Episode 127: SRE vs Devops with Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo podcast
• Red Hat site
• Kubernetes site
• Introducing Agones blog
• Stackdriver site
• OpenCensus site
• GCPPodcast Episode 118: OpenCensus with Morgan McLean and JBD podcast
• Edge TPU site
• GCPPodcast Episode 135: VirusTotal with Emi Martínez podcast
• Cloud Spanner site

It’s the third and final day for us at NEXT, and Mark and Melanie are wrapping up with some great interviews! First, we spoke with Stephanie Cueto and Vivian San of Techtonica, a San Francisco non-profit. Next, Liz Fong-Jones and Nikhita Raghunath joined us for a quick discussion about open source and Stackdriver and last but not least, Robert Kubis helped us close things sharing what it means to do DevRel at this event.

Day two of NEXT was another day full of interesting interviews! Melanie and Mark sat down for quick chats with Haben Girma about accessibility in tech and Paresh Kharya to talk about NVIDIA. Next, we touched base with Amruta Gulanikar and Simon Zeltser to learn more about Windows SQL Server and .NET workloads on Google Cloud. The interviews wrap up with Henry Hsu & Isaac Wong of Holberton.

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. She received the Helen Keller Achievement Award, and a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30. Haben travels the world consulting and public speaking, teaching clients the benefits of fully accessible products and services. She's a talented storyteller who helps people frame difference as an asset. She resisted society's low expectations, choosing to create her own pioneering story. Haben is working on a book that will be published by Hachette in 2019.

Paresh Kharya is Group Product Marketing Manager for data center products at NVIDIA responsible for product marketing of NVIDIA's Tesla accelerated computing platform. Previously, Paresh held a variety of business roles in the high-tech industry, including group product manager at Adobe and business development manager at Tech Mahindra. Paresh has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a bachelors of computer science and engineering from the National Institute of Technology, India.

Prior to joining Google Amruta spent 5+ years as a PM in the Office division at Microsoft working on many different products. Just before she left, she worked on launching a new service and supporting apps - "O365 Planner" which offers people a simple and visual way to organize teamwork. At Google, Amruta owns Windows on GCE which includes support for premium OS & Microsoft Server product images, platform improvements to support Windows workloads on GCE.

Simon Zeltser is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, working with .NET and Windows on Google Cloud Platform.

Henry Hsu is a software engineer trained at Holberton School. He has experience with C, C++, Python, Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, MySQL/Postgres, Unity, Game Maker Studio, Linux, Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, systems design, algorithms, and devops.

Isaac Wong attends the Holberton School. He has a degree in horticulture from Texas A&M.

• Edge TPU site
• Cloud IoT Edge site
• Cloud Armor site
• Titan Security Key site
• Building on our cloud security leadership to help keep businesses protected blog
• Google Cloud Container Registry site
• Haben Girma's website site
• Haben Girma's presentation at NEXT video
• San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind site
• National Federation of the Blind site
• National Association of the Deaf site
• NVIDIA site
• NVIDIA and Google Cloud Platform site
• Google Cloud Platform Podcast Episode 119 podcast
• Velostrata site
• GKE site
• Google App Engine site
• Stackdriver Debugger site
• Windows on Google Cloud Platform site
• SQL Server on Google Cloud Platform site
• .NET on Google Cloud Platform site
• Holberton School site
• Unity site
• GKE On-Prem site
• TensorFlow site

We'll both be at Cloud NEXT in Moscone West on the first floor, so come by and say hi! We have chocolate!

Day two of NEXT was another day full of interesting interviews! Melanie and Mark sat down for quick chats with Haben Girma about accessibility in tech and Paresh Kharya to talk about NVIDIA. Next, we touched base with Amruta Gulanikar and Simon Zeltser to learn more about Windows SQL Server and .NET workloads on Google Cloud. The interviews wrap up with Henry Hsu & Isaac Wong of Holberton.

On this very special episode of the Google Cloud Platform Podcast, we have live interviews from the first day of NEXT! Melanie and Mark had the chance to chat with Melody MeckFessel, VP of Engineering at Google Cloud and Pavan Srivastava of Deloitte. Next we spoke with Sandeep Dinesh about Open Service Broker and Raejeanne Skillern of Intel.

Melody Meckfessel is a hands-on technology leader with more than 20 years experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems and solving problems at scale. As VP of Engineering, she leads the team building DevOps tools and sharing DevOps best practices across Google and with software development and operations teams around the world. Her team powers the world's most advanced continuously delivered software, enabling development teams to turn ideas into reliable, scalable production systems. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Melody programmed for startups and enterprise companies. Since joining Google in 2004, Melody has led teams in Google's core search systems, search quality and cluster management. Melody is passionate about making software development fast, scalable and fun.

Pavan is a technology leader with 20 years of experience in developing strategies and implementation of SAP focused technology solutions. Pavan leads Deloitte's SAP technology capability that focuses on helping clients adopt innovative technology solutions such as cloud and SAP HANA to improve business efficiencies. Pavan has led several engagements helping clients develop strategy, architecture and implement SAP on the cloud and SAP HANA platform.

Sandeep Dinesh is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud. He blends and creates new opportunities for businesses and people by leveraging the best technology possible.

Raejeanne Skillern is the VP of Data Center and General Manager of Intel's cloud service provider (CSP) business. Her goal is to make it easier, more cost-effective and more efficient for CSPs to build new infrastructure and services. She is privileged to lead an exceptional team that manages Intel's business, products and technologies for cloud infrastructure deployments and works closely with the world's largest cloud providers to ensure Intel's data center products are optimized for their unique needs.

• Cloud AutoML site
• GKE On-Prem site
• Melody Meckfessel's Speaking Schedule at NEXT site
• DevOps site
• Google Open Source site
• Cloud Build site
• Spinnaker site
• Kubernetes site
• Stackdriver site
• Application Performance Management site
• OpenCensus site
• Deloitte site
• SAP site
• Deloitte and Google Cloud blog
• Google Cloud Platform Service Broker site
• Open Service Broker site
• Pub/Sub site
• Cloud Spanner site
• Intel Cloud Computing site
• Intel Xeon site
• Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory site
• Partnering with Intel and SAP on Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for SAP HANA blog

We'll both be at Cloud NEXT in Moscone West on the first floor! Come by and say hi!

On this very special episode of the Google Cloud Platform Podcast, we have live interviews from the first day of NEXT! Melanie and Mark had the chance to chat with Melody MeckFessel, VP of Engineering at Google Cloud and Pavan Srivastava of Deloitte. Next we spoke with Sandeep Dinesh about Open Service Broker and Raejeanne Skillern of Intel.

On this episode of the podcast, Mark and Melanie delve into the fascinating world of robotics and reinforcement learning. We discuss advances in the field, including how robots are learning to navigate new surroundings and how machine learning is helping us understand the human mind better.

Raia Hadsell, a senior research scientist at DeepMind, has worked on deep learning and robotics problems for the past 15 years. After completing a PhD at New York University, which featured a self-supervised deep learning vision system for a mobile robot, her research continued at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and SRI International, and in early 2014 she joined DeepMind in London to develop artificial general intelligence. Her current research focuses on the challenge of interactive learning for AI agents and robots, including subjects such as neural memory for real world navigation and lifelong learning.

• AI Adventures How to Make a Data Science Project with Kaggle site
• Predict your future costs with Google Cloud Billing cost forecast blog and site
• Kaggle Competition Winning Solutions site
  • Google Cloud Platform Podcast Episode 84: Kaggle with Wendy Kan podcast
• Introducing Jib — build Java Docker images better blog
  • Google Container Tools site

• Raia Hadsell site
• Learning to Navigate Cities Without a Map research paper and blog
• Unsupervised Predictive Memory in a Goal-Directed Agent | MERLIN research paper
• Nature: Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in AI research paper
• DeepMind has trained an AI to unlock the mysteries of your brain site
• Navigating with grid-like representations in artificial agents blog
• DeepMind site and blog
• Boston Dynamics site
• Google Brain Robotics site
• Transylvanian Machine Learning Summer School site
• IMPALA: Scalable Distributed Deep-RL with Importance Weighted Actor-Learner Architectures research paper
• Edward Mozer - Grid Cells and the Brain's Spatial Mapping System video
• The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 site
• TensorFlow site

How do you connect a Google Cloud Source repository to an existing Git repository? site and blog

We'll both be at Cloud NEXT!

• Mark will be talking about Agones blog

Melanie will speak at PyCon Russia July 22nd

On this episode of the podcast, Mark and Melanie delve into the fascinating world of robotics and reinforcement learning. We discuss advances in the field, including how robots are learning to navigate new surroundings and how machine learning is helping us understand the human mind better.

On this episode of the podcast, Melanie and Mark talk with Emiliano (Emi) Martínez to learn more about how VirusTotal is helping to create a safer internet by providing tools and building a community for security researchers.

Emiliano has been with VirusTotal for over 10 years. He has seen the business grow from a small startup in southern Spain into a Google X moonshot under the new Chronicle bet. He is a software engineer acting as the Tech Lead for VirusTotal. Throughout the past 10 years, not only has he been immersed in coding and architecting the platform, but he has also participated at all levels of the business: from bootstrapping the very first sales to working close with marketing and other teams in order to take the project to the next level. His main interests are IT security (more specifically malware) and designing products and services from scratch.

VirusTotal is part of Chronicle, and Chronicle is hiring! Come join our team experts to help build out the next generation of security intelligence solutions. We are looking for talent that is comfortable operating in an organization that is scaling quickly, that loves variety in their work and wants to get their hands dirty with all things cyber security, cloud computing, and machine learning.

We are a dynamic organization that likes to run experiments so we are looking for colleagues that are excited about trying new things and offering a creative yet efficient, and client-centric approach to engineering solutions. You are scrappy and resourceful, creative and driven – and excited to share in the magic of working at Chronicle

• BigQuery in June: a new data type, new data import formats, and finer cost controls blog
• Dataflow Stream Processing now supports Python blog
• Associate Cloud Engineer blog
• Six AI & ML Sessions to Attend at NEXT blog

• VirusTotal site
• VirusTotal Use Cases site and videos
• VirusTotal Intelligence site
• VirusTotal Malware Hunting site
• VirusTotal Monitor site
• VirusTotal APIs site
• VirusTotal Community site
• VirusTotal Contact site
• Data Connectors San Jose on July 12, 2018 site
• Data Connectors Raleigh on July 26, 2018 site
• BSides Las Vegas on August 7-8, 2018 site
  • If you are interested in a 1:1 meeting with VirusTotal, please email [email protected]
• Google Cloud App Engine site
• Google Compute Engine site
• Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine site
• BigQuery site
• Google Cloud Data Studio site
• Google Cloud MemoryStore site
• Google Cloud SQL site
• G Suite site

This week's question comes from Andrew Sheridan, with a special guest answer from Robert Kubis.

What is the best practice for multi tenancy in Google Cloud Spanner, especially if customers are not of the same size and have unequal load?

• What DBAs need to know about Cloud Spanner, part 1: Keys and indexes blog
• Cloud Spanner - Choosing the Right Primary Keys video
• More questions about Spanner? Robert will be presenting on it at Cloud NEXT.

We'll both be at Cloud NEXT!

Melanie will speak at CERN July 17th and PyCon Russia July 22nd