Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Google Cloud Endpoints has recently been

Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS, tells your cohosts Mark and Francesc why they chose gRPC for the newest version of etcd and how this improved its performance and development flow.

Brandon Philips is helping to build modern server infrastructure at CoreOS as CTO. Prior to CoreOS, he worked at Rackspace hacking on cloud monitoring and was a Linux kernel developer at SUSE. As a graduate of Oregon State's Open Source Lab he is passionate about open source technologies.

• @notch, creator of Minecraft would cloud again with Google Cloud Platform

A Stack of Stuff for .NET developers:

• Getting started with Cloud Tools for Visual Studio blog post
• Running Powershell on Google Cloud SDK blog post
• Installing and using Cloud Tools for Visual Studio YouTube

• CoreOS
• etcd: Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system GitHub
• Protocol Buffers Google Developers
• gRPC v1 GitHub release
• gRPC gateway: gRPC to JSON proxy generator GitHub
• CoreOS Community homepage
• Swagger aka OpenAPI
• gRPC streaming docs

• Emulator for Datastore docs

Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS,

Umesh Shankar has been working on making Google secure for many years and he's come to tell you and your cohosts Francesc and Mark how encryption helps keep Google Cloud Platform users safe.

Umesh Shankar is a Principal Engineer based in New York, focusing on security and privacy. He created and continues to lead the Data Protection effort at Google, working to keep users' data safe in Google apps and on Google Cloud Platform. He routinely works with teams across the company on security and privacy design, and is actively involved in trying to improve security on the web.

Umesh has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University.

He is an avid soccer player, clarinetist, and mixologist.

• Google Cloud Endpoints announcement
• How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow blog post

• Google Cloud Platform Security homepage
• Google Security Whitepaper whitepaper
• Encryption at Rest in Google Cloud Platform whitepaper
• Google Cloud Storage User Provided Keys docs
• Encrypting Disks with Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys docs
• Homomorphic Encryption wikipedia
• Homomorphic Encryption with BigQuery docs
• Cloud Data Protection for the Masses research paper

• Web serving on Google Cloud Platform: an overview blog post
• Web Serving Overview solution

Umesh Shankar has been

Descartes Labs is creating an incredible living atlas of the world from huge datasets leveraging the power of Google Cloud Platform and Tim Kelton, one of the co-founders of Descartes Labs, is here to your cohosts Francesc Campoy and Mark Mandel all about it.

Tim is a co-founder of Descartes Labs focuses on building distributed systems using cloud architecture to better see how the earth changes every day. Prior to Descartes Labs, Tim was a Research and Development engineer for 15 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on problem areas such as deep learning, space systems, nuclear non-proliferation, and counterterrorism. In his free time, Tim enjoys mountain biking and skiing in the mountains above Descartes in Santa Fe New Mexico.

• Check the transcripts for every episode!
• All Google Cloud Platform episodes on YouTube
• gRPC Project is now 1.0 and ready for production deployments blog post

• Descartes Labs home page
• Advancing the science of corn forecasting Medium
• Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer Google Research
• Preemptible VMs docs
• Managed Instance Groups docs
• Celery: Distributed Task Queue homepage
• “Tatooine†then and now from space: 40th anniversary of filming of Star Wars Medium

Three maps of Humboldt, Iowa in July 2016.

Cloud free image in true color

We detect fields automatically, using machine learning. This is a map of all the fields in Humbolt.

Vegetative health (using NDVI)

What can you get for free on Google Cloud Platform?

• App Engine pricing
  • 28 free instance-hours per day
• Cloud Datastore pricing
  • 1 GB of storage
  • 50k Entity Reads
  • 20k Entity Writes
  • 20k Entity Deletes
• Vision API pricing
  • 1k units/month (a unit correspond to a feature e.g. facial detection)
• BigQuery pricing
  • Loading, Copying, and Exporting data is always free
  • First TB of processed data in queries is free every month
• PubSub pricing
  • First 250M Operations: $0.40/Million

Descartes Labs is creating an incredible

Mark is back right on time to interview Alan Fregtman, a pipeline developer working at Rodeo FX. Alan will explain how Google Cloud Platform enables Rodeo FX artist to create amazing visual effects faster.

Rodeo FX is very well known for their work on Game of Thrones, Deadpool, and many others. I recommend watching this demo video to get an idea of their talent.

Game Of Thrones - Season 6 - VFX Breakdown from Rodeo FX.

In the industry for 8 years ranging from commercials work to tv series and now film, Alan Fregtman (also on imdb) has been holding technical roles throughout his career, beginning as a character rigger and currently a pipeline developer at Rodeo FX in Montreal, where he has been for the last 4 years. He specializes in developing tools for the CG side of the film visual effects pipeline, including Rodeo’s integration of the Google Cloud Platform for use in cloud rendering.

• Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are now generally available
• Improved performance, security and platform support for databases (Low-latency for Google Cloud Storage Nearline storage)

Announcement

• Rodeo FX has worked on many shows: demo
• GCE Custom Machine Types to adapt to the movie needs docs
• Preemptible VM instancesc for their reduced cost docs
• Salt Stack to keep all machines configured docs
• FDT: Fast Data Transfer for really fast transfer of … data docs
• Creating a Google Cloud VPN docs
• GlusterFS to manage their in-house file system docs

For more information:

• How GCP helps Rodeo FX extending their rendering capacity, presented by Jordan Soles YouTube
• Videos by Rodeo FX on vimeo

How to create a Managed Instance Group from a VM?

1. Delete your instance keeping your disk
2. Create a custom image from your disk docs
3. Create a new Instance Template with them image
4. Create an Managed Instance Group with the template

What if you can't delete the instance?

1. Create a snapshot from your running disk docs
2. Create a new disk from the snapshot
3. Go to step [2] above

Mark is back right on time to interview

Rodeo FX is very well known for their work on Game of Thrones, Deadpool, and many others.

Game Of Thrones - Season 6 - VFX Breakdown from Rodeo FX.

This week, Terry Ryan and Brent Shaffer join Francesc and guest host Chris Broadfoot to talk all about PHP on Google Cloud Platform

Terry Ryan is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform team. He has 15 years of experience working with the web - both front end and back. He is passionate about web standards and wants to bring web developers to the Google Cloud Platform. Before Google, he worked for Adobe and the Wharton School of Business.

He also wrote Driving Technical Change for Pragmatic Bookshelf, a book that arms technology professionals with the tools to convince reluctant co-workers to adopt new tools and technology.

Brent Shaffer is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google who is involved primarily in the Open Source world of PHP and Ruby. His most notable Open Source contribution is the OAuth2 server for PHP, and his favorite OpenSource project is the Symfony framework. Outside of work, he loves mountaineering and playing folk music in a band.

• Preemptible VMs now up to 33% cheaper blog

• PHP on Google Cloud Platform docs
• PHP App Engine Getting Started docs
• Run PHP on Compute Engine docs
• Create a Guestbook with Redis and PHP on Container Engine docs
• Quick Start WordPress for Google App Engine github
• How to Run Symfony Hello World on App Engine docs github
• Docker images for running PHP applications on the App Engine Flexible Runtime github
• Cloud Launcher LAMP Stack launcher

How do I load balance WebSocket connection with a Google Cloud Load Balancer?

• Setting Up HTTP(S) Load Balancing docs
• Setting Up Network Load Balancing docs
• Setting Up SSL proxy for Google Cloud Load Balancing docs
• When should I use HTTPS load balancing instead of SSL proxy load balancing? faq