Google Cloud Platform Podcast

This week brings your hosts Francesc and Mark doing

Following the saga of episodes on programming languages today your co-hosts, Francesc and Mark, have the honor to talk to Jon Wayne Parrott, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google Cloud Platform, about Python on the cloud.

Jon Wayne focuses on the Python developer experience for Google Cloud Platform. He's an active contributor to multiple open-source Python projects.

• Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake blog
• GPUs are now available for Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning blog
• Developer Advocates offer up their favorite Google Cloud NEXT 17 sessions blog

• Python on Google Cloud Platform cloud.google.com/python
• Python on App Engine Standard Environment docs
• Python on App Engine Flexible Environment docs
• A skeleton for creating Python applications using the Flask framework on App Engine GitHub

• Can I send emails as part of a Cloud Datastore transaction? No, but you can use Task Queues docs

Mark is today at GDC and afterwards he'll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco.

Francesc is coming back from Gophercon India and on his way to Cloud NEXT.

Following the saga of episodes on programming languages today your co-hosts,

On the heels of the Cloud Spanner launch, Deepti Srivastava joins your hosts Francesc and Mark on this week's podcast to talk all about this globally distributed, horizontally scalable, relational database that also provides global consistency and ACID transactions!

Deepti Srivastava is passionate about technology and its ability to be a positive change enabler. As Product Manager for Cloud Spanner, on Google's Cloud Platform, Srivastava works on best in class Cloud Databases and Storage technologies. Srivastava is an enthusiastic member of Women@Google and a passionate advocate of STEM education, especially for girls. She also enjoys dancing, snowboarding and all things fashion.

• Each Google Cloud Product described in 4 words or less tweet doc
• Google Cloud and YouTube-8M Challenge blog

• Cloud Spanner site docs
• Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications blog
• Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem blog
• Quizlet Tests Cloud Spanner — The Most Sophisticated Cloud Database blog
• Don't Give Up on Serializability Just Yet • Neha Nerula youtube
• CAP Theorom wikipedia
• Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database white paper
• Spanner, TrueTime and the CAP Theorem white paper
• Cloud Next: Cloud Spanner 101: Google's mission-critical relational database schedule
• Cloud Next: Cloud Spanner 201: getting the most out of Cloud Spanner schedule
• Ben Sigelman will present Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database youtube

Spanner: No-Compromise Relational Database Service

How do I run a mail server on the cloud?

• Sending Mail from a Virtual Machine docs
• Sending Email with SendGrid docs
• Sending Email with Mailgun docs
• Sending Email with Mailjet docs
• SMTP relay: Route outgoing non-Gmail messages through Google docs

Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he'll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco.

Francesc will be at Gophercon India, at Cloud NEXT, and then Gopher China.

On the heels of the Cloud Spanner

You might have heard about Improbable teaming up with Google Cloud, and you might want to know more about it. Well, this episode is for you!

Rob Whitehead, CTO and co-founder of Improbable, joins the podcast to explain to your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, everything there is to know about Improbable, SpatialOS, and their relationship to Google Cloud Platform.

Rob Whitehead co-founded Improbable in the summer of 2012 with a fellow Cambridge classmate, with the goal of creating a technology to digitally recreate and fully simulate the real and virtual worlds using the massive computational power of the cloud.

In a previous life, he was an indie iOS developer, and an arms dealer in Second Life!

• Google Cloud Endpoints now generally available: a fast, scalable API gateway blog post
• Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications blog post
• Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem white paper

• Google partners with Improbable to support next generation of video games blog post.
• Improbable improbable.io
• SpatialOS docs

A collision of two fully customized ships flying through the procedurally generated and persistent universe of Worlds Adrift, a game developed on SpatialOS. Read about the game’s origin story and technical details of its physics.

• Join the SpatialOS Games Alpha here
• Running CoreOS Container Linux on Google Compute Engine CoreOS docs
• SpatialOS also use gRPC and Bazel.
• What we found when we simulated the backbone of the entire Internet on SpatialOS blog post

How can I resize a persistent disk?

• Adding or Resizing Persistent Disks docs

Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he'll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco.

Francesc will speak tomorrow at the Go 1.8 release party in San Francisco. A bit later he'll also be at Gophercon India.

You might have heard about Improbable teaming up with Google Cloud,

Rob Whitehead, CTO and co-founder of Improbable, joins the podcast to explain to

Answering the call from last episode, Soam Vasani joins your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, today to tell them about Fission, a Function as a Service framework built on top of Kubernetes.

Soam Vasani is a software engineer at Platform9 Systems Inc, where he works on the Fission framework. In the past he's worked on distributed storage and other stuff at VMware. He's interested in languages, tools and frameworks, and distributed systems.

• Highly Available Kubernetes Clusters blog post
• Continuous Delivery in a microservice infrastructure with Google Container Engine, Docker and Travis Medium
• Delivering a better platform for your SQL Server Enterprise workloads blog post

• Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes blog post
• Kubernetes home page
• Fission: Serverless Functions for Kubernetes fission.io
• Fission's code GitHub
• Fission examples GitHub
• Serverless Computing Wikipedia

Is there a way for me to secure my websocket connections on GCP? - TCP SSL Load Balancer docs - Deploying WebSockets cluster to GCP with Let's Encrypt certificates Medium

Mark just released a blog post on game development sessions at Cloud Next. Next he will be at GDC and afterwards he'll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco.

Francesc, who just released a new episode of #justforfunc and a demo for Go plugins, will speak at the Go 1.8 release party in San Francisco. A bit later he'll also be at Gophercon India.

Answering the call from last episode, Soam Vasani joins

Our beloved teammate Paul Newson is back from his SRE rotation to tell us about all the lessons that he learned during all these months. Your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, are as always here to ask all the burning questions.

Paul is an SRE Advocate at Google. As part of Google's Cloud developer relations team, he helps our customers understand reliability best practices based on his experiences working as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on Google Compute Engine and as a Software Engineer on Google Cloud Storage.

Before joining Google, he cofounded a tiny game technology startup, sold it to Microsoft, where he then worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza Motorsport, before spending some time working on interesting machine learning problems in Microsoft Research.

Outside of work he enjoys rock climbing, motorcycling, and other activities that demand complete focus.

He doesn't often post on social media, but when he does, he does it at @newsons_nybbles.

• Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes Kubernetes blog
• CRE Life Lessons blog post series
• The SRE book is now free! read it online

More episodes with Paul Newson:

• Storage with Paul Newson episode 14
• Site Reliability Engineering episode 38

More links:

• The SRE book home page
• SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, oh my - CRE life lessons blog post
• A Google SRE explores GitHub reliability with BigQuery blog post
• Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog post

The question today comes from StackOverflow.

How can I see which version of an App Engine service is the default?

• app.services/get docs
• Microservices Architecture on Google App Engine docs

Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he'll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco.

Francesc is doing a European tour, after speaking at golab and GolangBCN he's currently in Paris and on his way to the Go Devroom at FOSDEM. A bit later he'll also be at Gophercon India.