Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Mark and Francesc welcome the incredible

Today Francesc and Mark have the honor to be joined by Alim Jaffer and Mo Firouz from Heroic Labs to discuss their open source framework for social and realtime apps and games.

A member of the founding team, Alim joined Heroic Labs in 2016 as the VP of Product after having worked in startups focused in the games and health verticals.

He is based in Vancouver, Canada and San Francisco.

Mo cofounded Heroic Labs and is part of the core engineering team. Mo has worked on various products in Heroic Labs including the core Nakama server as well as Heroic Managed Cloud where he was primarily responsible for automating server provisioning and the monitoring stack with Kubernetes. Mo previously worked as a system architect in VisualDNA and built scalable big-data analytics systems, and prior to that built realtime high frequency trading systems.

• CRE life lessons: What is a dark launch, and what does it do for me? blog post

• Cloud Dataproc is now even faster and easier to use for running Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop announcement

• Canary Deployments using Istio blog post

• Heroic Labs heroiclabs.com
• Heroic Labs on GitHub repository
• Heroic Labs Documentation
• Google Container Engine
• CockroachDB

Accessing Cloud SQL instances from Cloud Functions?

Use SQL Proxy, as for the Managed Instance Group, which we cover on episode 81.

• Connecting MySQL Client from Compute Engine
• About the Cloud SQL Proxy
• CloudSQL Proxy GitHub repo

Francesc just released a justforfunc episode on Contributing to the Go project. He'll be soon taking some well deserved holidays!

Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.

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Tim Hockin, one of the engineers that started the Kubernetes project, joins Francesc and Mark to talk about all of the cool stuff coming up with Kubernetes 1.7.

Tim was one of the first engineers on Kubernetes and GKE, where he has been involved in things like networking, storage, node management, API, plugins, and more. Before Kubernetes, he worked on Google's internal systems, Borg and Omega, mostly on the node management side, and on Google's machine management, hardware bringup, and kernels.

He has been contributing to open-source projects since 1995, when he first learned C.

• Cloud Shell's code editor now in beta announcement
• How App Engine helped power Super Mario Run blog post
• New hands-on labs for scientific data processing on Google Cloud Platform blog post

• kubernetes.io is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
• Kubernetes 1.7: Security Hardening, Stateful Application Updates and Extensibility blog post
• Kubernetes 1.7 release notes
• Kubernetes StatefulSets docs
• Kubernetes API Aggregation GitHub issue
• Extend the Kubernetes API with CustomResourceDefinitions docs

When should I use a pod and when a container?

Tim Hockin's slides are here.

Francesc just released a justforfunc episode on Go Testing. He'll be soon taking some well deserved holidays!

Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.

Tim Hockin, one of the engineers that started the Kubernetes project,

Francesc and Mark are joined this week by Jonathan Cham, a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud Platform, to discuss what his job entails and how our customers can benefit from it.

Jonathan Cham is a customer engineer who helps customers be successful on the Google Cloud Platform. For 10 years, he has advised companies of all stages– from startups to Fortune 50 companies on cloud technologies and helping them accelerate the delivery of IT. He wants to help build your next successful billion dollar business on the Google Cloud Platform!

In his free time, he is changing lots of diapers, not by choice, and preparing his 3 month son for the 2036 NBA draft.

• Google not Amazon. Make fantastic savings in a server-less world blog post
• TCP BBR congestion control comes to GCP – your Internet just got faster GCP blog
• Google's BBR Algorithm for Speeding up Internet Traffic Gains Wider Adoption bleepingcomputer.com
• Introducing Transfer Appliance: Sneakernet for the cloud era GCP blog

• Contact Google Cloud Platform contact
• Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering announcement
• We're hiring Strategic Customer Engineer Google Careers
• Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets Google Research

How can I attend GCP meetups without traveling? GCP Online Meetup:

• YouTube Channel
• Meetup

Francesc will be at the July GoSF Meetup.

Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.

Francesc and Mark are joined this week by Jonathan Cham, a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud Platform, to discuss what his job

Francesc and Mark are joined this week by Lukas Karlsson from Broad Institute and Mike Altarace from Google Cloud Platform to discuss the Platinum Customer relationship with Google Cloud Platform.

Lukas has been working at the Broad in various roles over the last fourteen years or so. He now run our cloud architecture and strategy and works in developer relations, advocating for the software developers who consume our services.

Mike has been a Strategic Customer Engineer (SCE, pronounced Ski) assigned to the Broad Institute for over a year. He's been working with Broad on all manners of operating their GCP environment. All is on the table, technical issues, billing, shared events, certifications.

• Google Cloud Platform now open in London blog gdpr
• Container Engine now runs Kubernetes 1.7 to drive enterprise-ready secure hybrid workloads blog
• Marvin is a go-kit server for Google App Engine github
• Google Container Builder Part 1 (Cloud Rolling Update) youtube podcast

• Broad Institute site
• Google Cloud Storages home docs
• Pre-emptible Virtual Machines site docs
• Google Cloud Platinum Support support
• Customer Reliability Engineers podcast
• Gaining full control over your organization's cloud resources (Google Cloud Next '17) youtube

If I want to run a single node development Kubernetes cluster, and I don't want to pay for a Network LoadBalancer as well - how do I expose services?

• NodePort Services docs
• Configure a static IP for a Ingress Service docs

Francesc will be at the July GoSF Meetup.

Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.

Francesc and Mark are joined this week by Lukas Karlsson from Broad Institute

Due to popular demand, this week Francesc and Mark are joined by Product Manager Varun Talwar and Senior Staff Software Engineer Sven Mawson to discuss all things Istio, an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.

Product Manager in Google Cloud; founding PM on @grpcio and @IstioMesh

Software Engineer in Google Cloud; founder of @IstioMesh

• gSlack: Integrating Google Cloud Platform with Slack blog
• Solution guide: Building connected vehicle apps with Cloud IoT Core blog solution
• Why did the Gopher spend so much at the drug store? punchline
• Super Mario Run Case Study youtube

• Istio home page overview design goals
• OSI Network Model wikipedia
• Kubernetes sidecar containers blog
• Installing Istio docs
• Monitoring via Prometheus (podcast) and Grafana
• Envoy L7 proxy homepage
• Istio Ingress Controller docs

If I want to apply Istio to an existing Kubernetes application, how do I do it?

• Managing microservices with the Istio service mesh blog
• istioctl kube-inject docs

Francesc will be at GopherCon in Denver. He also recently released the Go Tooling in Action workshop and a new justforfunc episode!

Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York with Phoenix One Games in July, as well as TA'ing the Kubernetes Bootcamp. He also released the second blog post in his series about running Game Servers on Kubernetes.