Google Cloud Platform Podcast

In the nineteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts

In the eighteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Ian Lewis, a Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate based in Tokyo about Bigtable.

Ian is a Developer Advocate on the Google Cloud Platform team working out of Tokyo. Ian loves Python and Go and helps run the largest Python event in Japan, PyCon JP. Ian is also interested in Docker and Kubernetes and hopes to help Google Cloud Platform users achieve their highest potential.

We're live at GCPNext with our mics! If you're around come say hi, and if not follow the event from one of the many local viewing parties or via the live stream.

Resources:

• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data pdf
• Google Cloud Bigtable docs
• Differences between the HBase and Cloud Bigtable APIs docs
• Cloud Bigtable Pricing

How to limit what users can do on the resources of your project?

• Google Cloud Identity and Access Management docs

In the eighteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts

In the seventeenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Hiren Patel and Dale Humby, two Google Developer Experts who live and work in South Africa.

DevOps engineer with a long history of system administration. Currently spending all my time doing a mix of backend development on GCP with python, web frontend development, and some android mobile work.

Electro-Mechanical engineer turned software developer, now leading the product development team at Nomanini, building point of sale terminals and a financial backend to provide low cost access to payment for emerging markets.

We will be at GCP Next, with our mics! So come by and say hello. We'll be doing short interviews with people, and talking to them about the podcast.

Also, make sure to check out GCP Next Extended, if you can't get to San Francisco for the event.

Resources:

• The Save-Data client hint request header docs
• The data trap: affordable smartphones, expensive data blog
• Internet in Africa wikipedia
• Introduction to Service Worker blog
• A collection of tools for service workers github
• Material Design Lite docs
• YouTube Red offline for free in South Africa blog
• IPv4 usage around the world image

• Firebase Announcing Mobile Offline Support blog
• Firebase iOS Offline Capabilities docs
• Firebase Android Offline Capabilities docs

In the seventeenth episode of this podcast, your hosts

In the sixteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Kelsey Hightower. Kelsey is a developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform and will tell us what is coming up with the next Kubernetes version.

Kelsey has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from Programming, System Administration, and his favorite Linux distro of the month (CoreOS).

Google Cloud Platform Community Slack Team

• Join using http://bit.ly/gcp-slack

Resources:

• Kubernetes homepage
• Kubernetes 1.2 release notes
• etcd: Distributed Key Value store by CoreOS repo
• The Raft Consensus Algorithm docs
• GKE: Google Container Engine docs
• Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi cluster post
• The Twelve-Factor App

• Google App Engine Documents and Indexes docs
• Google App Engine Managed VMs docs
• Google Cloud Platform Podcast: Compute as a Continuum post

In the sixteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts

In the fifteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Varun Talwar. Varun is a product manager in charge of gRPC, an open source project created at Google that helps you build distributed systems like we do internally at Google.

Varun is a product manager in Google Cloud team and has recently taken on gRPC. Prior to this he was responsible for Google Cloud Launcher, a launchpad to easily spin up popular software images on Google Compute Engine. He is a long time Googler who has previously worked on YouTube, Maps and Adsense.

Follow Varun on Twitter @varungyan.

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

Resources:

• grpc.io
• gRPC on GitHub
• Mailing list for gRPC: [email protected]
• Take a REST with HTTP/2, Protobufs, and Swagger blog
• Protocol Buffers docs
• etcd: distributed key-value store with grpc/http2 blog
• Flatbuffers docs
• Game on! Flatbuffers video
• thrift docs

Special guests Sara Robinson and David East.

• Firebase authentication with email and password docs
• Firebase authData for iOS docs
• Firebase UI for Android and iOS

In the fifteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts

In the fourteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Paul Newson. Paul is now a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform but was a Software Engineer in the Cloud Storage team. Together they discuss the multiple options available for data storage on the cloud and the trade offs to be taken into account while choosing one.

Paul currently focuses on helping developers harness the power of Google Cloud Platform to solve their big data problems. Previously, he was an engineer on Google Cloud Storage. Before joining Google, Paul founded a startup which was acquired by Microsoft, where he worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza Motorsport, before spending time working on machine learning problems at Microsoft Research.

Follow Paul on Twitter @newsons_nybbles.

• Opinionated Deployment Tools & Kubernetes blog post and Github repository

• When to Pick Google Bigtable vs Other Cloud Platform Databases blog post.
• Where Should I Store My Stuff? - slightly outdated video.
• Choosing a Storage Option docs.
• Google Drive docs.
• Google Cloud Storage docs.
• Google Cloud Datastore docs.
• Google Cloud SQL docs.
• Google Cloud Bigtable docs.
• Google BigQuery docs.
• Google Cloud Dataflow docs

Question from Jeff Schnitzer: Can you use Java 8 features in Standard App Engine?

• Google App Engine Standard Environment docs.
• Google App Engine Managed VMs docs.
• Retrolambda Github repo.