Aja Hammerly (https://twitter.com/the_thagomizer), Developer Advocate for Google Cloud,

discusses with your cohosts Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and

Mark (https://twitter.com/neurotic) what monitoring is and how

Stackdriver (https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/) makes it easy on Google Cloud,

other cloud providers, and even on premise.

About Aja

Aja (https://twitter.com/the_thagomizer) lives in Seattle where she is a developer advocate at

Google and a member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade (http://www.seattlerb.org/). Her favorite

languages are Ruby and Prolog. She also loves working with large piles of data.

In her free time she enjoys skiing, cooking, knitting, and long coding sessions on the beach.

Cool thing of the week

* Kubernetes moves onwards and upwards (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/Kubernetes-moves-onwards-and-upwards-this-week-on-Google-Cloud-Platform.html)

* Kubernetes 1.3 on tap for Google Container Engine (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/Kubernetes-1.3-on-tap-for-Google-Container-Engine.html)

* Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes - Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/course/scalable-microservices-with-kubernetes--ud615)

Interview

* Stackdriver Monitoring Documentation (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs/)

* Stackdriver (https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/)

* Introducing Google Stackdriver: unified monitoring and logging for GCP and AWS (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/Google-Stackdriver-integrated-monitoring-and-logging-for-hybrid-cloud.html)

* Using metrics (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/v3/using-metrics)

* Stackdriver pricing (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/pricing)

* Uptime checks (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerts/uptime-checks)

* Six things Stackdriver brings to the DevOps table (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/06/six-things-Stackdriver-brings-to-the-DevOps-table.html)

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Question of the week

* How to keep data in sync while limiting bandwidth? gsutil rsync (https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/rsync)

(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/rNvRFPF2QpM)