Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Myles Borins talks with Mark and Francesc about Node.js from its history, how to contribute, the consensus-seeking governance, and why it’s important to Google Cloud Platform.

Node.js is an open-source, JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, and Google is a Platinum Member of the Node.js Foundation.

On this week's podcast, Eric Anderson shares how Dataprep helps summarize, transform, visualize and cleanup data on the Google Cloud Platform. When doing data analysis, typically data munging can take up most of the time and this serverless tool helps optimize the process.

Eric is a Product Manager at Google working on Cloud Dataprep and recently Cloud Dataflow. Previously he was at Amazon Web Services, Harvard Business School, General Electric and University of Utah. He's from Salt Lake City, Utah and lives in Mountain View, California with and wife and three kids.

• Intel Performance Libraries and Python Distribution enhance performance and scaling of Intel Xeon Scalable ('Skylake') processors on GCP blog
• The hidden costs of cloud blog and Server Density podcast
• Monitor and manage your costs with Cloud Platform billing export to BigQuery blog and Public Datasets podcast
• Kaggle TensorFlow Speech Recognition Challenge site

• Cloud Dataprep site docs
• Cloud Dataflow site docs
• 7 Steps to Mastering Data Preparation with Python blog
• Design Your Pipeline blog
• Apache Beam site

What is feature engineering?

• Intro to Feature Engineering with TensorFlow video

Mark will be Montreal in December to speak at Montreal International Games Summit. Melanie will be at NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) in Long Beach in December

On this week’s podcast, Eric Anderson shares how Dataprep helps summarize, transform, visualize and cleanup data on the Google Cloud Platform. When doing data analysis, typically data munging can take up most of the time and this serverless tool helps optimize the process.

Colt McAnalis joins the podcast this week to talk about his Performance Atlas series where he dives into how to make Google Cloud applications faster and cheaper. In his words, his job is to help get someone promoted.

Colt McAnlis is a Developer Advocate at Google focusing on performance & compression. Before that, he was a graphics programmer in the games industry working at Blizzard, Microsoft (Ensemble), and Petroglyph. He's been an Adjunct Professor at SMU Guildhall, a UDACITY instructor (twice), and a Book Author, (twice). When he's not working with developers, Colt spends his time preparing for an invasion of giant ants from outer space.

• With Multi-Region Support in Cloud Spanner, have your cake and eat it too blog
• The State of Data Science & Machine Learning by Kaggle blog and podcast
• Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!) blog

• Performance Atlas series
• Profiling App Engine (Standard) Boot Time video
• TCP BBR site
• Cloud Functions site docs
• Understanding Compression book
• Google SRE book
• TCP/IP Illustrated book
• Ilya Grigorik site
• Perf Like a Pirate III site

What are the differences between sustained and committed use discounts?

• Sustained Use Discounts docs
• Committed Use Discounts docs

Mark will be Montreal in December to speak at Montreal International Games Summit.

Colt McAnalis joins the podcast this week to talk about his Performance Atlas series where he dives into how to make Google Cloud applications faster and cheaper. In his words, his job is to help get someone promoted.

Brian Granatir comes on the podcast this week to tell us all about the New Zealand company Smart Parking taking advantage of IoT Core and our Serverless products!

This is also the inaugural episode of Melanie joining Mark on the podcast!

Brian Granatir has been developing for the cloud since the beginning, back in 2007. He left Oregon and moved to New Zealand to be with his future wife in 2014. In 2017, he joined Smart Parking to help with the development of their new Smart City platform built on GCP. Before becoming a developer, Brian spent 3 years as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

• Demystifying ML: How machine learning is used for speech recognition blog
• GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region blog
• Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL adds high availability and replication blog

• Smart Parking site
• IoT Core site docs
• Cloud Pub/Sub site docs
• Cloud Functions site docs
• Cloud Datastore site docs
• BigQuery site docs
• Google Data Studio site docs

How do I configure a PostgreSQL Cloud SQL instance for high availability?

• Configuring an Instance for High Availability docs

Mark will be Montreal in December to speak at Montreal International Games Summit.

Melanie will be speaking at QCon is San Francisco next week!

Brian Granatir comes on the podcast this week to tell us all about the New Zealand company Smart Parking

This is also the inaugural episode of Melanie joining Mark on the podcast!

It's time to learn everything about Cloud IoT Core from Indranil Chakraborty, Product Manager, and Gabe Weiss, Developer Advocate on IoT.

Listen to Mark and Francesc ask all of the questions you had about IoT but didn't dare to ask.

Indranil is a product manager for Google Cloud Platform and leads product strategy and development for Cloud IoT Core. Previously, he held product management roles at Google Fiber and sales strategy roles for Google AdWords. Indranil holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

Gabe works on the Google Cloud Platform team ensuring that developers can make awesome things, both inside and outside of Google. Focused primarily on the Internet of Things, it's his job to be sure IoT devices can play nicely with the GCP ecosystem. That's everything from speaking at conferences, writing example code, running bootcamps, writing technical blogs or just doing some hand holding. Prior to Google he's worked in virtual reality production and distribution, source control, the games industry and professional acting.

• Announcing Go 1.8 on App Engine Standard Environment
• GCP Podcast hits 100 episodes — here are the 10 most popular episodes
• GCP products described in 4 words or less

• Cloud IoT Core
• Google Cloud IoT Solutions
• Announcing Cloud IoT Core public beta

Francesc says his goodbyes to Google and the Google Cloud Platform Podcast.

• Thanks and goodbye, Google friends

It’s time to learn everything about Cloud IoT Core from Indranil Chakraborty, Product Manager, and Gabe Weiss, Developer Advocate on IoT.

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Google, the Cloud, or podcasts would not exist without the internet, so it's with an incredible honor that we celebrate our 100th episode with one of its creators: Vint Cerf.

Listen to Mark and Francesc talk about the origins, current trends, and the future of the internet with one of the best people to cover the topic.

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet" Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and on the faculty of Stanford University.

Vint Cerf served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007 and has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995. Cerf is a Foreign Member of the British Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, the British Computer Society, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, the Worshipful Company of Stationers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has served as President of the Association for Computing Machinery, chairman of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) and completed a term as Chairman of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology.

President Obama appointed him to the National Science Board in 2012. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Tunisian National Medal of Science, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, Officer of the Legion d'Honneur and 29 honorary degrees. In December 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People." His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.

Also, he's awesome.

We interviewed Vint Cerf!

Who will you interview for episode 100?

• Vint Cerf.