Google Cloud Platform Podcast

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In this second episode of the year we'll talk Java!

Ray Tsang and Rajeev Dayal tell your co-hosts Mark and Francesc everything there is to know about Java on Google Cloud Platform. You will learn about what you can currently as a Java developer on Google Cloud Platform, but also what to expect on the future.

Ray is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. Ray had extensive hands on cross-industry enterprise systems integration delivery and management experiences during his time at Accenture, managed full stack application development, DevOps, and ITOps. Ray specialized in middleware, big data, and PaaS products during his time at Red Hat while contributing to open source projects, such as Infinispan. Aside from technology, Ray enjoys traveling and adventures.

Rajeev Dayal is an Engineering Manager at Google New York that manages the Cloud SDK and Java on GCP efforts. He's been in the developer tools space for nearly 10 years, previously working on the Google Plugin for Eclipse and GWT (where he still has nightmares about browser quirks with Internet Explorer 6) at Google's Atlanta office.

• A 3-hour crash course on deep-learning, TensorFlow and more. blog post
• Build a Slack bot that uses the Cloud ML Natural Language API github
• Google Cloud Audit Logging now available across the GCP stack blog post

• Java on Google Cloud docs
• Java on App Engine Standard docs
• Java and Dataflow docs
• Google Cloud Tools for Eclipse Documentation docs
• Google Cloud Stackdriver docs
• Using Stackdriver Trace with Zipkin docs
• Stackdriver Debugger docs

• I want to move data from S3 to cloud storage - is there an easy way to do this?

Yes! This is the best way to do it docs. You might also want to check out Minio.

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 he'll speak at GolangBCN. The week after he'll be in Paris and right after he'll be in the Go Devroom at FOSDEM. A bit later he'll also be at Cloud Next.

In this second episode of the year we’ll talk Java!

Ray Tsang and Rajeev Dayal tell your co-hosts Mark and

We're back! And we're bringing a seriously cool interview about Pokémon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic.

In this interview your co-hosts Francesc and Mark chat with Ed about the whole history of Pokémon GO, from the inception of Niantic to the amazing success and the scaling challenges they faced.

Ed Wu is a Director, Software Engineering at Niantic who leads the engineering team of Pokémon GO as well as the Niantic Seattle site. Before helping to lead Niantic from its successful spin-out from Google, Dr. Wu was a Staff Software Engineer at Google where he developed machine learning models in ads quality.

He received his PhD from Stanford in Physics in 2009 applying Bayesian parameter estimation models to cosmological data he collected from three visits to Antarctica and the South Pole.

• How we secure our infrastructure: a white paper blog post
• Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview docs
• Google Cloud Platform icons and sample architectural diagrams, for your designing pleasure blog post
• Solution Icons for Architectural Diagrams link
• Continuous Deployment to Google Cloud Platform with Drone NYTimes
• You can read all the source code in:
  • Drone
  • Drone GKE
  • Drone GAE

• Pokémon GO homepage
• Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog post
• Leveraging the Google Cloud Platform niantic
• Ingress homepage
• Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog post
• 'Pokémon GO' Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android Forbes

Pokémon GO logo owned by The Pokémon Company (from Wikipedia)

Pokémon GO stack:

• Java on Container Engine docs
• Cloud Datastore docs
• Cloud Bigtable docs
• (and more)

I have these keys that I want to use for encrypting my data at rest.

• Managing encryption keys in the cloud: introducing Google Cloud Key Management Service blog post
• Google Cloud Key Management docs

Different solutions for different security needs

We’re back! And we’re bringing a seriously cool interview about Pokémon GO with Edward Wu,

In this interview your co-hosts Francesc and Mark

In the last episode for 2016, Mark and Francesc look at all their favourite moments from this year, including their favourite episodes, guests and Cool Things of the Week.

• Google partners with Improbable to support next generation of video games blog
• Announcing new Google Cloud Client Libraries for four key services blog
• Kubernetes 1.5: Supporting Production Workloads blog

• #46: Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes gcppodcast.com
• #44: Cloud Endpoints with Dan Ciruli and Sepehr Ebrahimzadeh gcppodcast.com
• #31: TensorFlow with Eli Bixby gcppodcast.com
• #37: GKE 1.3 with Carter Morgan gcppodcast.com
• #43: gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips gcppodcast.com

• #19: GCP Next Speakers gcppodcast.com
• #23: Humble Bundle with Andy Oxfeld gcppodcast.com
• #52: Google Developer Experts Summit gcppodcast.com

• #25: Go on the Cloud with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot gcppodcast.com
• #38: Site Reliability Engineering with Paul Newson gcppodcast.com
• #43: gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips gcppodcast.com

Spotify is now on Google Cloud Platform:

• Spotify chooses Google Cloud Platform to power data infrastructure blog
• Announcing Spotify Infrastructure's Googley Future blog
• Google's BigQuery is da bomb - I can start with 2.2Billion 'things' and compute/summarize down to 20K in tweet

Kubernetes and Google Container Engine

• Kubernetes 1.3 on tap for Google Container Engine blog
• Google Container Engine now on Kubernetes 1.4 blog
• Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog

Education:

• CP100A: Google Cloud Platform Foundations courses
• New Google Cloud Platform Education Grants offer free credits to students blog
• Kubernetes class on Udacity blog

Multiple General Availabilities

• Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are now generally available blog
• Cloud Router docs
• Cloud CDN docs
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) docs

Machine Learning and Big Data

• How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow blog
• Decoding the micro-moments of baseball: can you hear the game through data? blog
• Introducing Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API open beta and our West Coast region expansion blog
• Powering geospatial analysis: public geo datasets now on Google Cloud blog
• Introducing the Open Images Dataset blog

Google Cloud Platform Community Slack

• Join the community invite

We'll be back on January 18th, 2017 - See you all then!

In the last episode for 2016, Mark and Francesc

Today we learn everything there is to be learnt about Managed Infrastructure from Pawel Siarkiewicz and Jerzy Foryciarz, two Product Managers at Google working on the topic.

Your co-hosts Francesc and Mark are here to help you understand what is Managed Infrastructure and why sometimes it might be just the right level of abstraction and automation you need.

Pawel Siarkiewicz is a Product Manager on Google Compute Engine Managed Infrastructure. Prior to joining Google at the start of 2016, Pawel was a Technical Director at Electronic Arts, a CTO at Genus Capital Management and an entrepreneur. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an MBA.

Jerzy Foryciarz is a Lead Product Manager on Google Compute Engine. Jerzy joined Google in 2011 working for Google TV, Youtube and Google Now. Prior to Google he was an Engineering Director of Motorola Cellular Networks Software. He holds MSc in Computer Technologies in Nuclear Physics from Jagiellonian University, PhD in Nuclear Physics From National Academy of Sciences in Poland and an MBA from Chicago University Booth School of Business.

• Making every (leap) second count with our new public NTP servers blog
• Google Public NTP docs
• Power up your Google Compute Engine VMs with Intel's next generation, Custom Cloud Xeon Processor blog
• Google Compute Engine Custom Cloud Xeon (Skylake) Processor Interest Survey form

• Managed Instance Groups docs
• Autoscaling Groups of Instances docs
• Autoscaling Video Tutorial YouTube
• Autohealing VM Instances YouTube
• Preemptible VM Instances docs
• Use Docker Containers with GCE and Managed Instance Groups docs
• Rightsizing Recommendations for Google Compute Engine docs
• Managed Instance Group Updater Alpha docs

How do I restrict access to my service, by IP address range in Kubernetes?

• Configuring Your Cloud Provider's Firewalls docs
• Using Networks and Firewalls docs

Today we learn everything there is to be learnt about Managed Infrastructure from

Your co-hosts Francesc and Mark

This week Alan Ho from Apigee joins your cohosts Francesc and Mark to talk about the lifecycle of an API.

Alan is an engineer and entrepreneur, and leads developer advocacy for Apigee - an API Management provider newly acquired by Google Cloud. In addition to helping out customers build better APIs, he organizes API conferences and technical talks on all things APIs. Prior to Apigee, he had started a mobile application performance monitoring company (acquired by Apigee), and had built large scale web services at Amazon.

• Kompose: a tool to go from Docker-compose to Kubernetes blog

• Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love ebook
• Open API Initiative site
• Swagger API Framework site
• Uber's APIs: Giving Developers the Keys to Innovation blog

When using Ruby, developing with Cloud Services, such as storage, how can I write my code such that it's portable between Cloud Providers?

• Fog site
• Google Cloud Provider for Fog github
• Create a VM with Fog & Ruby: Cloud Minute YouTube
• Upload to Google Cloud Storage with Fog: Cloud Minute YouTube