Colt McAnalis (https://twitter.com/duhroach) joins the podcast this week to talk about his Performance Atlas (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqK5zce0-fd1Vam7oPY-s_8X) series where he dives into how to make Google Cloud applications faster and cheaper. In his words, his job is to help get someone promoted.

About Colt McAnlis

Colt McAnlis is a Developer Advocate at Google focusing on performance & compression. Before that, he was a graphics programmer in the games industry working at Blizzard, Microsoft (Ensemble), and Petroglyph. He’s been an Adjunct Professor at SMU Guildhall, a UDACITY instructor (twice), and a Book Author, (twice). When he’s not working with developers, Colt spends his time preparing for an invasion of giant ants from outer space.

Cool things of the week

* With Multi-Region Support in Cloud Spanner, have your cake and eat it too blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/with-Multi-Region-support-in-Cloud-Spanner-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too.html)

* The State of Data Science & Machine Learning by Kaggle blog (https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017) and podcast (https://soundcloud.com/linear-digressions/kaggle-survey-produced)

* Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!) blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/introducing-Certified-Kubernetes-and-Google-Kubernetes-Engine.html)

Interview

* Performance Atlas series (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqK5zce0-fd1Vam7oPY-s_8X)

* Profiling App Engine (Standard) Boot Time video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuVpxOIA8Wc)

* TCP BBR site (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/TCP-BBR-congestion-control-comes-to-GCP-your-Internet-just-got-faster.html)

* Cloud Functions site (https://cloud.google.com/functions/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/)

* Understanding Compression book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920052036.do)

* Google SRE book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book/index.html)

* TCP/IP Illustrated book (https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Protocols-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321336313/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510769486&sr=8-1&keywords=tcp+illustrated)

* Ilya Grigorik site (https://www.igvita.com/)

* Perf Like a Pirate III site (https://www.meetup.com/sfhtml5/events/238958595/)

Question of the week

What are the differences between sustained and committed use discounts?

* Sustained Use Discounts docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discounts)

* Committed Use Discounts docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-committed-use-discounts)

Where can you find us next?

Mark will be Montreal in December to speak at Montreal International Games Summit (http://www.migs17.com/en/home/).(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/-A76VWKwAIk)