Google Cloud Platform Podcast

In the fourteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts

In the thirteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Sara Robinson and Vikrum Nijjar. Sara is now a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform but was part of Firebase until recently, and Vikrum - Firebase employee #1 - works as a Site Reliance Engineer (SRE) for Firebase. Together they discuss the origins, features, and future of Firebase.

Sara is a Developer Advocate on Google's Cloud Platform team, where she helps with developer relations through online content, outreach and events. She has a bachelor's degree in Business and International Studies from Brandeis University. When she's not programming, she can be found running, listening to country music, or finding the best ice cream in SF.

Follow Sara on Twitter @SRobTweets.

Vikrum is a Bay Area native and SWE-SRE on the Firebase team. He started out with startups in the 90s with Speedera and has been with Firebase as employee #1 as they were going through YCombinator during the summer of 2011. He has a degree in CS from UC San Diego and enjoys a deep conspiracy with his boba tea.

Follow Vikrum on Twitter at @Vikrum5000.

• CP100A: Google Cloud Platform Foundations courses.

• Firebase.
• Firebase Documentation.
• Warby Parker Pneumatic Tubes blog.
• Roll 20 and their case study.
• Netty.io.
• Firebase plugin for Unity blog and github.
• Firebase pricing doc.
• Parse moving on blog.
• Use Firebase and Google App Engine in an Android App tutorial.
• Firebase - Almost 1.5 years with Google blog.

• Google Cloud Console on Android and iOS.

In the thirteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts

In the eleventh episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Jen Tong, a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, about the Internet of Things.

Jenny is a Developer Advocate on Cloud at Google. In this role she helps developers build cool stuff on all sorts of platforms. Previously she worked in a wide variety of software roles from robotics at NASA, to developer advocacy for Google Glass.

She is passionate about education, especially on the subjects of technology and science. If she's away from her laptop, she's probably skating around a roller derby track, or hanging from aerial silk.

You can contact Jen through Twitter and her home page.

• Deep Learning at Udacity Google Research blost post.

• Arduino starter kit
• NodeBots: Robots powered by JavaScript
• Raspberry Pi
• Arduino Uno
• Node.JS
• Firmata for Arduino
• Johnny Five
• Firebase
• ESP8266 WiFi Module

• Google Cloud Platform training page

In the eleventh episode of this podcast, your hosts

In the tenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Graham Polley and Pablo Caif, who are both Google Developer Experts who work at Shine Technologies.

Graham is a senior software engineer based out of Melbourne Australia. He's passionate about promoting the adoption of cloud technologies into software development, and regularly blogs and gives presentations. Graham has extensive experience in building big data solutions for clients using the Google technology stack, and in particular with BigQuery & Dataflow. Graham works very closely with the GCP engineering team in the US, where he is a member of their cloud platform trusted tester program, and the solutions he helps build are used as internal exemplars of developer use cases. Graham is also a GDE on the GCP.

You can contact Graham through Twitter, blog and Google Developer Expert Profile.

Pablo is a passionate software engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, and devising simple solutions. He works at Shine Technologies and he is part of a team that uses BigQuery and Dataflow to solve challenging and complex data processing business requirements. Pablo considers that scalability and performance are paramount to developing a great solution, and that is why he has been using Dataflow and BigQuery to bring these solutions to reality. Pablo is also a GDE on GCP.

You can contact Pablo through Twitter, and blog.

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• Shine Technologies homepage
• Google Developer Experts about page
• BigQuery docs
• Cloud DataFlow docs
• Cloud Dataproc docs
• Google Cloud Dataproc and the 17 minute train challenge blog post
• A week in the life of a Google Developer Expert blog post
• Messages in the sky blog post
• Shine with BigQuery: The 30 Terabyte challenge video

• The Google App Engine Admin API doc

In the tenth episode of this podcast, your hosts

In the ninth episode of this podcast and first of 2016, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Ram Ramanathan. Ram is the product manager for Google Cloud Vision API.

Ram Ramanathan joined Google in 2014 where he's been working on leading the machine learning efforts for Google Cloud Platform, and has been a large part of launching the new Google Cloud Vision API. He comes with a great deal of experience in the industry after working for other big players such as GE Healthcare and Microsoft.

You can follow him on twitter at @ramramanathan1.

• Top 5 Power Features of the Google Cloud CLI (blog post)

• Get your current project id using gcloud: gcloud config list core/project | awk '{print \$3}'

  After the recording we were informed that there's a better way using formats: gcloud config list --format="value(core.project)"

• Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images blog
• Google Cloud Vision API docs
• Google Cloud Vision robot demo video
• Tensorflow homepage
• Mobile Vision SDK docs

• Google Cloud Storage Access Control docs
• Google Cloud Storage Signed URLs docs

In the ninth episode of this podcast and first of 2016, your hosts

In the eighth episode of this podcast and last of 2015, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Felipe Hoffa. Felipe is a developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform and he specializes in Big Data.

In 2011 Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on Big Data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.

• Cloud SQL second generation docs and announcement blog post

• BigQuery docs
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters research paper
• Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets research paper
• Cloud DataFlow docs
• FlumeJava: Easy, Efficient Data-Parallel Pipelines research paper
• MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale research paper
• Cloud Datalab docs
• Jupyter project homepage
• Cloud BigTable docs
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data research paper
• Google Cloud Genomics docs and 23andme homepage
• Hey I just met you ... tweet
• BigQuery subreddit

• App Engine environment variables docs
• Kubernetes secrets docs
• Google Compute Engine metadata docs
• App Engine example code to access project metadata
• Google Cloud Storage Security and Privacy considerations docs