Google Cloud Platform Podcast

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.

Mandy Waite joins Mark and Melanie to share what is developer relations and how trust and empathy are key to its success. We discuss meeting developers where they are and the wide variety of differing communities that exist across the technology ecosystem.

Mandy Waite has worked at Google for nearly 8 years, 6 of which have been spent growing and nurturing the Cloud Advocacy team. She heads up the Infrastructure and Ops Advocacy team in Google Cloud with a focus on Cloud Native, DevOps, SRE, Observability and Security.

• Better cost control with Google Cloud Billing programmatic notifications blog
• Music in Motion: a Firebase and IoT story blog
• Google Cloud Codelabs and Challenges codelabs
• Kubernetes Podcast site and blog

• Google Cloud Platform site
• #46 Borg and K8s with John Wilkes podcast
• #118 OpenCensus with Morgan McLean and JBD podcast
• Felipe Hoffa & BigQuery reddit, blog and podcast
• Livestreaming with Jen Tong Twitch, Holden Karau Twitch, and Chris Broadfoot Twitch
• Ben Treynor on What is 'Site Reliability Engineering' interview
• Solomon Hykes at dotScale on Docker video
• Istio site and #85 Istio with Varun Talwar and Sven Mawson podcast
• Kubernetes site
• Docker site
• The Core Competencies of Developer Relations blog

Where do I go to learn about GDPR in regards to Google Cloud Platform?

• Google Cloud: Ready for GDPR blog
• Google Cloud & the General Data Protection Regulation site

Mark is speaking at the Monthly SF Game Development Community, presenting on You Can't Just Add More Servers on May the 30th in San Francisco.

Melanie is speaking at a joint WiMLDS and PyLadies event "Paths to Data Science" on June 26th. More details to come.

Mandy Waite joins Mark and Melanie to share what is developer relations and how trust and empathy are key to its success. We discuss meeting developers where they are and the wide variety of differing communities that exist across the technology ecosystem.

Chief Decision Scientist, Cassie Kozyrkov joins Mark and Melanie this week to explain data science, analytics, machine learning and statistical inference, in relation to decision intelligence.

As Chief Decision Scientist at Google Cloud, Cassie advises leadership teams on decision process, AI strategy, and building data-driven organizations. She works to democratize statistical thinking and machine learning so that everyone - Google, its customers, the world! - can harness the beauty and power of data. She is the innovator behind the practice of Decision Intelligence Engineering at Google and she has personally trained over 15,000 Googlers in machine learning, statistics, and data-driven decision-making. Before her current role, she served in Google's Office of the CTO as Chief Data Scientist. Prior to joining Google, Cassie worked as a data scientist and consultant. She holds degrees in mathematical statistics, economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. When she's not working, you're most likely to find Cassie at the theater, in an art museum, exploring the world, or curled up with a good novel.

• Cloud ML Engine adds Cloud TPU support for training blog docs
• Google Kubernetes Engine 1.10 is generally available and ready for the enterprise blog
• Introducing ultramem Google Compute Engine machine types blog
• Increase performance while reducing costs with the new App Engine scheduler blog docs

• Decision Intelligence wikipedia
• Redhat Summit Keynote youtube
• Data Analytics wikipedia
• Statistical Analysis wikipedia
• Machine Learning wikipedia
• Deep Learning wikipedia

There are several other episodes that provide insights into data science:

• #31 TensorFlow with Eli Bixby podcast
• #84 Kaggle with Wendy Kan podcast
• #109 Cloud AutoML Vision with Amy Unruh and Sara Robinson podcast
• #113 Open Source TensorFlow with Yifei Feng podcast
• #122 Project Jupyter with Jessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris Holdgraf podcast

As well as case studies on real world problems:

• #91 The Future of Media with Machine Learning with Amit Pande podcast
• #115 Google Play Marketing with Dom Elliott and Stewart Bryson podcast

How can I secure my Google Cloud Platoform acount using a YubiKey?

• Securing your Cloud Platform Account with Security Keys docs
• Encrypting Google Application Default and gcloud credentials with GPG SmardCard blog

Mark will be speaking at the Monthly SF Game Development Community, presenting on You Can't Just Add More Servers on May the 30th in San Francisco.

Melanie is speaking at a joint WiMLDS and PyLadies event "Paths to Data Science" on June 26th. More details to come.

Chief Decision Scientist, Cassie Kozyrkov joins Mark

This week is a clash of titans! Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo join Mark and Melanie, to battle out on which is better: SRE or Devops (hint - everyone wins!).

Liz is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google and works on the Google Cloud Customer Reliability Engineering team in New York. She has worked on services ranging from Google Flights to Cloud Bigtable in her 10+ years at Google. 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.

Seth Vargo is a Developer Advocate at Google. Previously he worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk, and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. Seth is an active member of the DevOps community and has written thought-leader-y pieces such as the 10 Myths of DevOps.

• Google I/O session youtube
• What's new in Firebase at I/O 2018 blog
  • Introducing ML Kit for Firebase blog
• Jeff Dean is new Head of AI wired
• Introducing Cloud Memorystore: A fully managed in-memory data store service for Redis blog
  • Google Group
  • Issue tracker

• class SRE implements DevOps youtube series
• DevOps wikipedia
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) site
• Terraform site
• Chef site
• Puppet site
• Ansible site
• SaltStack site
• Prometheus site
• Datadog site
• Stackdriver site
• The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE amazon
• Seeking SRE o'reilly
• Customer Reliability Engineering Blog Series blogs

I'm a researcher at a regionally accredited academic institution and I need compute resources. Does Google Cloud have any programs that can help me out?

• Google Cloud Platform announces new credits program for researchers blog faq

Mark will be speaking at the Monthly SF Game Development Community, presenting on You Can't Just Add More Servers on May the 30th in San Francisco.

Melanie is speaking at the Understand Risk Forum on May 17th, in Mexico City.

This week is a clash of titans! Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo

Holden Karau is on the podcast this week to talk all about Spark and Beam, two open source tools that helps process data at scale, with Mark and Melanie.

Holden Karau is a transgender Canadian open source developer advocate @ Google with a focus on Apache Spark, BEAM, and related "big data" tools. She is the co-author of Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, and another Spark book that's a bit more out of date. She is a commiter on and PMC on Apache Spark and committer on SystemML & Mahout projects. She was tricked into the world of big data while trying to improve search and recommendation systems and has long since forgotten her original goal.

• Twitter's collaboration with Google Cloud blog & tweet
• Kaggle CERN TrackML Particle Tracking Challenge Competition site
• Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime blog & repo
• Announcing Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring blog
• MLPerf: collaborative effort to standardize ML benchmarks site

• Spark site & community site
• Beam site
• Cloud Dataflow site & docs
• Cloud Dataproc site & docs
• Using Spark on Kubernetes Engine blog
• Testing future Apache Spark releases and changes on Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Dataproc blog
• Spark Packages site
• Spark testing base repo
• Flink site
• Arrow site

Upcoming Talks:

• PyCon 2018 & Debugging PySpark talk
• Scala Days & Keeping the "fun" in Spark talk
• Strata London & Understanding Spark tuning with auto-tuning talk
• J on the Beach & General Purpose Big Data Systems are eating the world talk
• Spark Summit 2018 & Accelerating TF with Apache Arrow on Spark talk

I have a continuous integration build process setup with Container Builder, but it's all sequential. I want to speed things up by processing parts of it in parallel. How do I do that?

• Configure Build Step Order docs

Mark can be found streaming Agones development on Twitch.

Melanie is speaking at the internet2 Global Summit, May 9th in San Diego, and will also be talking at the Understand Risk Forum on May 17th, in Mexico City.

Special shout out: Google I/O and PyCon are both happening this week

Holden Karau is on the podcast this week to talk all about Spark and Beam, two open source tools that helps process data at scale, with Mark and Melanie.

Mark and Melanie are joined by Sarah Novotny, Head of Open Source Strategy for Google Cloud Platform, to talk all about Open Source, the Cloud Native Compute Foundation and their relationships to Google Cloud Platform.

Sarah Novotny leads an Open Source Strategy group for Google Cloud Platform. She has long been an Open Source community champion in communities such as Kubernetes, NGINX and MySQL and ran large scale technology infrastructures at Amazon before web-scale had a name. In 2001, she co-founded Blue Gecko, which was sold to DatAvail in 2012. She is a program chair emeritus for O'Reilly Media's OSCON.

• Now live in Tokyo: using TensorFlow to predict taxi demand blog
• Kubernetes best practices: Organizing with Namespaces blog youtube
• Announcing Open Images V4 and the ECCV 2018 Open Images Challenge blog dataset challenge
• Introducing Kubernetes Service Catalog and Google Cloud Platform Service Broker: find and connect services to your cloud-native apps blog docs
• Julia Evans - zines store

• Kubernetes site
• Node.js Foundation board of directors
• Tensorflow site
• gRPC site
• Apache Beam site
• Google Kubernetes Engine site
• Forseti site podcast
• Cloud Native Compute Foundation site
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Kubernetes® as First Graduated Project blog
• NTP's Fate Hinges On 'Father Time' article
• Open Container Initiative site
• Fireside chat: building on and contributing to Google's open source projects Google I/O

Mark broke SSH access to his Compute Engine instance by accidentally removing the GCP linux guest environment. How did he fix it?

• Installing the Linux Guest Environment via Clone Root Disk & Use Startup Script docs

Mark can be found streaming Agones development on Twitch and finished his blog series on scaling game servers on Kubernetes.

Melanie will be speaking at the internet2 Global Summit, May 9th in San Diego, and will also be talking at the Understand Risk Forum on May 17th, in Mexico City.