Brian Granatir comes on the podcast this week to tell us all about the New Zealand company Smart Parking (https://www.smartparking.com)

taking advantage of IoT Core (https://cloud.google.com/iot-core/) and our Serverless products (https://cloud.google.com/serverless/)!

This is also the inaugural episode of Melanie (https://twitter.com/nyghtowl) joining Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) on the podcast!

About Brian Granatir

Brian Granatir has been developing for the cloud since the beginning, back in 2007. He left Oregon and moved to New Zealand to be with his future wife in 2014. In 2017, he joined Smart Parking to help with the development of their new Smart City platform built on GCP. Before becoming a developer, Brian spent 3 years as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

Cool things of the week

* Demystifying ML: How machine learning is used for speech recognition blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/demystifying-ML-how-machine-learning-is-used-for-speech-recognition2.html)

* GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/10/GCP-arrives-in-India-with-launch-of-Mumbai-region.html)

* Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL adds high availability and replication blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/Cloud-SQL-for-PostgreSQL-adds-high-availability-and-replication.html)

Interview

* Smart Parking site (https://www.smartparking.com)

* IoT Core site (https://cloud.google.com/iot-core/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/iot/docs)

* Cloud Pub/Sub site (https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/)

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

* Cloud Datastore site (https://cloud.google.com/datastore/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs)

* BigQuery site (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs)

* Google Data Studio site (https://cloud.google.com/data-studio/) docs (https://support.google.com/360suite/datastudio/?hl=en#topic=6267740)

Question of the week

How do I configure a PostgreSQL Cloud SQL instance for high availability?

* Configuring an Instance for High Availability docs (https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/configure-ha)

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/).

Melanie will be speaking at QCon (https://qconsf.com) is San Francisco next week!(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/1EWSAayRHFs)