Google Cloud Platform Podcast

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.

Happy 4th of July! Today, Melanie and Mark go in depth with Brett Bibby and Micah Baker to learn more about Unity and its new strategic alliance with Google Cloud. We explore how an alliance between Google Cloud and Unity means easier development for game creators and better gaming for fans.

Brett Bibby is Unity's Vice President, Engineering. Prior to his current role, Brett served as a Field Engineering and Evangelist at Unity consulting with developers throughout Southeast Asia, Australia, India, and greater Asia. Before Unity, Brett founded and ran a game studio developing console titles, and has more than 30 years of experience developing games and game engine technology.

As Product Manager leading the strategy for Gaming on the Google Cloud Platform, Micah is committed to enabling developers to realize their vision for great games. An avid gamer on all major platforms, he never hesitates to get involved in games that were built with a passion for immersive storytelling, innovative multiplayer experiences, and breathtaking artwork.

• The 2018 World Cup Visualized: All the Goals So Far site
• Why we believe in an open cloud blog
• Kubernetes 1.11: a look from inside Google blog
• Understanding error budget overspend - part one - CRE life lessons blog
• Good housekeeping for error budgets - part two - CRE life lessons blog
• New GitHub repo: Using Firebase to add cloud-based features to games built on Unity blog

• Unity site
• Google Cloud Spanner site
• Unity Hackweek site
• Unity Connected Games site
• Bringing connected games within reach with Google Cloud blog
• Unity Hackweek 2018: Creating X Together blog

Brett Bibby

How do I report errors to Stackdriver from a cloud function?

We'll both be at Cloud NEXT!

Happy 4th of July! Today, Melanie and Mark go in depth with Brett Bibby and Micah Baker to learn more about Unity and its new strategic alliance with Google Cloud. We explore how an alliance between Google Cloud and Unity means easier development for game creators and better gaming for fans.

Brahim Elbouchikhi and Sachin Kotwani talk with Melanie and Mark about Firebase's ML Kit and how it enables machine learning on mobile and cloud apps. We delve into why ML Kit was developed, how it makes machine learning easier, what it's used for now and plans for the future.

Sachin Kotwani is a product manager with a special passion for making software development easy and fun. He has worked on several teams at Google, including Google Cloud, Play, and now Firebase. Before joining product management he worked worked as a strategy & ops manager in Google's Sales organization, and prior to Google, he worked in finance at Amazon.

He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and dual bachelor's degrees in Business Management and Computer Science from the University of Missouri - Columbia.

His hobbies include traveling with his family, chasing his daughter around the house, and tinkering with mobile apps and backends.

Brahim Elbouchikhi is a Group Product Manager on the Android team. On Android, Brahim is responsible for developer and consumer facing ML products, including Camera and developer SDKs. Prior to Android, Brahim led Daydream's software team. Brahim was also a founding PM of the Google Play store where he led monetization, search, and discovery. Brahim holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA. Brahim has also worked at Amazon and Deloitte in addition to starting a company in the past.

• Our 10th Doodle 4 Google winner is dino-mite blog
• Google Podcasts now on Android blog
• Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform Specialization site
• Introducing Cloud Dataflow's new Streaming Engine blog
• ML Explorer: talking and listening with Google Cloud blog
  • #131 Actions on Google with Mandy Chan podcast

• ML Kit for Firebase site
• TensorFlow Hub site
• TensorFlow Lite site
• Federated Learning document and blog
• TensorFlow.js site

What is a Developer Programs Engineer?

• Developer Programs Engineer — Say What!? blog
• Franziska Hinkelmann twitter

Mark is going to the Unity Hackweek. Read how Google Cloud is teaming up with Unity for gaming blog

Melanie is speaking at Stanford AI4ALL on June 28th.

We'll both be at Cloud NEXT!

Brahim Elbouchikhi and Sachin Kotwani talk with Melanie and Mark about Firebase’s ML Kit and how it enables machine learning on mobile and cloud apps. We delve into why ML Kit was developed, how it makes machine learning easier, what it’s used for now and plans for the future.

Thadeu Luz from Hand Talk shares with Melanie and Mark how the free Hand Talk education application translates and interprets spoken and written Portuguese into Brazilian Sign Language (aka LIBRAS or BSL). The application uses an animated avatar Hugo to deliver the signs through gestures and facial expressions and its built off of a statistical machine translation system and Firebase. Future plans include expanding into other languages with a priority on ASL and they welcome support.

Thadeu Luz is entrepreneur, data scientist and full-stack engineer with a background in 3D Animation, Video Compositing and Architecture. In early 2018 I have joined the Google Developers Experts program as a Firebase Expert. He's CPO and founder of Hand Talk, an internationally decorated company that produces automatic sign language interpretation with the help of a friendly virtual 3D Character named Hugo.

• Our video for NEXT video
• First research center in Ghana blog
• GCP in Finland blog
• AI Adventures BigQuery and Open Datasets video
• Dockercon and value of childcare at conferences tweet
• What is going on in Unite Berlin 2018 blog & Powering up Conncected Game Development blog

• Hand Talk site & video
• Firebase Hosting site docs
• Cloud Functions for Firebase site docs
• Cloud Functions for Firebase Sample Library github
• Launchpad Studio site and podcast
• TensorFlow.js site
• ML Kit for Firebase site & podcast coming next week
• Serve Dynamic Content with Cloud Functions docs
• Google Translate Community site
• Cloud Machine Learning Engine docs

Hand Talk

What DOES a Go developer need to know about GCP?

Mark is speaking at the Online Kubernetes Community Meeting on the 21st of June, at 10am Pacific.

Melanie is speaking at a joint WiMLDS and PyLadies event "Paths to Data Science" on June 26th and Stanford AI4ALL on June 28th.

Thadeu Luz from Hand Talk shares with Melanie and Mark how the free Hand Talk education application translates and interprets spoken and written Portuguese into Brazilian Sign Language (aka LIBRAS or BSL). The application uses an animated avatar Hugo to deliver the signs through gestures and facial expressions and its built off of a statistical machine translation system and Firebase. Future plans include expanding into other languages with a priority on ASL and they welcome support.

This week is all about Voices! 🎶🎤🔊 Mandy Chan joins Melanie and Mark to discuss the intricacies of building user Voice user interfaces with Actions on Google, developing with SSML and more!

Mandy Chan is the developer community manager for the Actions On Google team. Her role is to help expand the funnel of the Actions on Google developer community by creating practical tools and content like http://bit.ly/aog-codelab-1 and http://bit.ly/aog-codelab-2

Mandy began to build voice applications back in early 2016, and since then, she has built more than a dozen Voice Applications on Actions On Google and other platforms. One of her most frequently downloaded open source projects is called the SSML-Builder which creates well-formed Speech Synthesis Markup Language without worrying about string concatenation. You can learn more about her open source project on http://bit.ly/ssml-build

When she is not pondering about how to improve the developer experience, you can find her hiking at mountains or learning new magic tricks. You can also learn more about Mandy by following @MandyChanNYC

• AI at Google: our principles blog
• Incorporating Google's AI Principles into Google Cloud blog
• Deploying to Google Kubernetes Engine blog
• Fighting fire with machine learning: two students use TensorFlow to predict wildfires blog
• Together, we can help Puerto Rico recover donation match
• Introducing sole-tenant nodes for Google Compute Engine — when sharing isn't an option blog docs

• Actions on Google site docs github console g+ community
• ssml-builder site npm
• Advanced SSML by Leon blog
• Actions on Google: SSML docs
• Actions on Google Codelabs level one level two
• Dialogflow site docs console
• Google Assistant SDK for devices site
• Cloud Functions for Firebase docs
• Google Action Firebase Services docs
• To get inspired by some interesting voice applications voice experiment
• Mandy Chan medium github
• Systers on June 21st 9AM PST – Getting started with Actions on Google Workshop site

I want to push a Docker image to Google Container Registry via docker push. How can I set things up so that I don't have to use gcloud docker -- push every time?

• Pushing and Pulling Images docs
• Authentication Methods docs

Mark is speaking at the San Francisco Kubernetes Meetup: Scaling Game Servers and the Conduit Service Mesh on June 14th, and also speaking at the Online Kubernetes Community Meeting on the 21st of June, at 10am Pacific.

Melanie is speaking at a joint WiMLDS and PyLadies event "Paths to Data Science" on June 26th and Stanford AI4ALL on June 28th.

This week is all about Voices!

Juliet Hougland and Michelle Casbon are on the podcast this week to talk about data science with Melanie and Mark. We had a great discussion about methodology, applications, tools, pipelines, challenges and resources. Juliet shared insights into the unique data science ownership workflow from idea to deployment at Stitch Fix, and Michelle dove into how Kubeflow is playing a role to help drive reliability in model development and deployment.

Juliet Hougland leads the Workflow, Environment, and Execution team at Stichfix. She is a data scientist and engineer with expertise in computational mathematics and years of hands-on machine learning and big data experience. She has built and deployed production ML models, advised Fortune 500 companies on infrastructure and worked on a variety of open source projects (Apache Spark, Scalding, and Kiji) at the intersection of big data and machine learning.

Michelle Casbon is a Senior Engineer on the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team, where she focuses on open source contributions and community engagement for machine learning and big data tools. Prior to joining Google, she was at several San Francisco-based startups as a Senior Engineer and Director of Data Science. Within these roles, she built and shipped machine learning products on distributed platforms using both AWS and GCP. Michelle's development experience spans more than a decade and has primarily focused on multilingual natural language processing, system architecture and integration, and continuous delivery pipelines for machine learning applications. She especially loves working with open source projects and is an active contributor to Kubeflow. Michelle holds a masters degree from the University of Cambridge.

• Sandeep Dinesh: Kubernetes Best Practices YouTube
• CNCF TOC voted to accept Helm as an incubation-level hosted project to CNCF site
• Andriod P in Beta blog
• Agones 0.2.0 site
• Securing cloud-connected devices with Cloud IoT and Microchip blog

• flotilla-os repo
• Kubeflow repo
• Cloud Dataproc site & docs
• Spark site & community site
• scikit-learn site
• xgboost repo
• PyTorch site
• TensorFlow site and github
• Kubernetes site github
• Introducing ultramem Google Compute Engine machine types blog
• #114 Machine Learning Bias and Fairness with Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell podcast
• Machine Learning Flash Clards site
• Open Source Data Science Masters site
• DockerCon SF site

If I have written a gRPC Service, but I'm using a language/platform that isn't supported - is there any way I can access it as REST?

• grpc-gateway
• Envoy proxy
• Transcoding

Mark is speaking at the San Francisco Kubernetes Meetup: Scaling Game Servers and the Conduit Service Mesh on June 14th.

Melanie is speaking at a joint WiMLDS and PyLadies event "Paths to Data Science" on June 26th and Stanford AI4ALL on June 28th.