Google Cloud Platform Podcast

In this episode Mark and Francesc

Have you ever wanted to apply Cloud Vision API to videos? Well, Sara Robinson is here to tell your co-hosts Mark and Francesc about Cloud Video Intelligence API, which allows you to do that and much more.

Sara is a Developer Advocate on Google's Cloud Platform team, focusing on big data and machine learning. She helps developers build awesome apps through demos, online content, and events. Sara has a bachelor's degree in Business and International Studies from Brandeis University.

When she's not programming she can be found on a spin bike, listening to the Hamilton soundtrack, or finding the best ice cream in New York.

• Getting started with Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy blog post
• Distributed tracing for Go blog post
• 220,000 cores and counting: MIT math professor breaks record for largest ever Compute Engine job blog post

• Announcing Google Cloud Video Intelligence API, and more Cloud Machine Learning updates announcement
• Cloud Video Intelligence API docs
• Cloud Next Video Intelligence API demo
  • recording YouTube
  • blog post Hackernoon
  • source code GitHub
• Users we mentioned:
  • Cantemo
  • Wix Media Platform
• Tensorflow: An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence docs

Cloud Video Intelligence API

Q: What is the recommended strategy for backups and restores on VMs

• Creating Persistent Disk Snapshots docs
• Google Cloud Storage Nearline docs
• How to Design a Disaster Recovery Plan solution

Mark is going to be hosting the Playcrafting + Extra Life Game Jame & Game Fest, raising money for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Finally he'll be in Sweden for Nordic Games Conference as well.

He also recently published a blog post on Scaling Dedicated Game Servers with Kubernetes: Part 1 – Containerising and Deploying.

Francesc will be presenting at the New York Google Developer Group for a Serverless event! Francesc has also released a new Just for Func episode, covering the implementation of the Context package!

Have you ever wanted to apply Cloud Vision API to videos?

This week, Mark and Francesc get a chance to talk directly to the Director of Customer Reliability Engineering himself, Luke Stone, all about CRE - where it came from, what it's goals are, and how it's been working with some big customers at Google Cloud Platform.

Luke is defining the customer experience of Google's new Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team. When he joined Google in 2002 he was the first technical support engineer for AdSense. He ran software engineering teams and started building on Google App Engine in 2009. Recently, he led the technical support team for Google Cloud Platform before becoming a founding member of the CRE team. Before Google, Luke was a system administrator and developer in academic and non-profit organizations, and studied computer science at Stanford.

• Google Cloud announces Machine Learning Startup Competition blog
• Quantifying the performance of the TPU, our first machine learning chip blog
• DeepBreath: Preventing angry emails with machine learning blog github

• Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog
• All the CRE blog posts blog
• Site Reliability Engineering book
• Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure chapter

Rokesh Jankie returns this week, with another question:

What does it mean to have 99.99% availability. That's not 100%, what does it mean for customers who have mission critical applications?

• SRE II with Paul Newson podcast
• High Availability wikipedia
• Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes podcast

Mark is going to be at and then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector in April. He's also going to be hosting the Playcrafting + Extra Life Game Jame & Game Fest, raising money for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Finally he'll be in Sweden for Nordic Games Conference as well.

Francesc will be presenting at Gophercon China in April, and will then be at the New York Google Developer Group for a Serverless event! Francesc has also released a new Just for Func episode, covering the Context package!

This week, Mark and Francesc get a chance to talk

One of our dear Developer Advocates, Yufeng Guo, joins your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, to talk about the Cloud Machine Learning Engine.

Cloud Machine Learning Engine offers a managed platform for training and serving Tensorflow models.

Yufeng is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, where he is trying to make machine learning more understandable and usable for all. He enjoys hearing about new and interesting applications of machine learning, share your use case with him on Twitter @YufengG.

Kubernetes 1.6:

• Kubernetes 1.6: Multi-user, Multi-workloads at Scale blog post
• Five Days of Kubernetes 1.6 blog post

Recapping Google Next '17 by Kalev Leetaru:

• Deep Learning As A Service Forbes
• Making Security Forbes
• The Great Cloud Shift From Renting Hardware To Services And Experts Forbes

• Tensorflow homepage
• On-device machine learning: TensorFlow on Android (Google Cloud Next '17) YouTube
• TensorFlow and Deep Learning without a PhD part 1 and part 2
• Cloud Machine Learning Engine docs
• Huggable or not? Build smart applications with your new superpower: cloud machine learning YouTube
• Kaggle homepage

Cloud Machine Learning Engine has a cool logo

What are API keys and when should I use them?

• Why and When to use API Keys docs

Mark is at Vancouver Unity Games Meetup and on Thursday he'll be at Polyglot Vancouver Meetup, then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector in April.

Francesc will be presenting at Gophercon China in April, and will then head off to New York!

Then he'll be back to San Francisco for GopherFest.

One of our dear Developer Advocates, Yufeng Guo,

Cloud Machine Learning Engine offers a managed platform for training and serving Tensorflow models.

Digging back into our archive of interviews from Google Cloud Next, Mark and Francesc talk to Brad Rydzewski, creator of Drone, about the open source continuous integration and delivery platform. We are also excited to have the amazing Jessie Frazelle joining us as well!

Brad Rydzewski is the creator of the open source Drone project, which provides container based continuous delivery.

Jessie Frazelle is also part of the Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocacy team, and is generally known as "That container girl", and is an avid "Door to door leenuux salesperson."

• Announcing general availability of Google Cloud Dataflow for Python blog
• Google Cloud Platform for Data Scientists: Using R with Google Cloud SQL for MySQL blog
• Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: Managed PostgreSQL for your mobile and geospatial applications in Google Cloud blog

• Drone homepage github
• Drone on Container Engine github
• Kubernetes Namespaces docs
• Docker compose docs
• Drone Plugins site

http://try.drone.io/

This questions of the week comes from Rokesh Jankie:

What is protocol buffers, and why should we all start using it?

• Protocol Buffers site
• gRPC previously on the podcast episode 15 episode 43
• FlatBuffers site

Mark will be heading to Vancouver Unity Games Meetup and Polyglot Vancouver Meetup, and then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector in April.

Francesc will be presenting at Gophercon China in April, and will then head off to New York!

Digging back into our archive of interviews from Google Cloud Next,

The CEO and founder of Server Density, David Mytton, joins the podcast today to tell your co-hosts Mark and Francesc about their experience migrating from on-premise MongoDB to Cloud Bigtable.

Server Density provides an open source logging and monitoring solution running on Google Cloud Platform.

David Mytton is founder and CEO of Server Density, a scalable infrastructure monitoring software company. He built the original version of the product and founded the HumanOps community to discuss and share how to improve the human aspects of running infrastructure following experiences being on-call 24⁄7 for the first few years of the company.

• TensorFlow and Deep Learning without a PhD part 1 and part 2
• Discover and redact sensitive data with the Data Loss Prevention API blog
• Digging deep on PHP 7.1 for Google App Engine

• Server Density homepage
• Mongo DB homepage
• Google Cloud Bigtable docs
• OpenTSDB: The Scalable Time Series Database docs
• Google Container Engine docs
• Apache Kafka project
• Designing your Bigtable schema docs
• HumanOps community
• Bigtable in action (Google Cloud Next '17) YouTube

What region should I use to optimize access from where I am?

• GCPing

Google Cloud Load Balancing docs

Mark will be heading to Polyglot Vancouver Meetup in April, and then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector

Francesc just released the last episode of the Flappy Gopher miniseries of JustForFunc, and then will be presenting at Gophercon China in April.