This week brings us back to an interview that we did while at Cloud Next (https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/) last week.

Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) and Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) talk to

William Bonnell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/williambonnell/), Senior Director of SRE at

The Home Depot (http://www.homedepot.com/) all about SRE culture, and the CRE team as well.

About William Bonnell

William Bonnell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/williambonnell/) is Senior Director of

Site Reliability Engineering at The Home Depot (http://www.homedepot.com/) - managing the e-commerce

and order management systems, support millions of customers per day!

Cool things of the week

* 100 announcements (!) from Google Cloud Next ‘17 blog (https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/100-announcements-google-cloud-next-17/)

* Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) for Google Cloud Platform (Beta) site (https://cloud.google.com/iap)

* Cloud.google.com/community site (https://cloud.google.com/community/)

* Cloud SQL for Postgre SQL (Beta) site (https://cloud.google.com/sql/)

* 64 Core machines + more memory blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/Google-Cloud-Platform-your-Next-home-in-the-cloud.html)

* A new issue tracker for Google Cloud Platform blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/a-new-issue-tracker-for-Google-Cloud-Platformud.html)

* Happy Pi Day! site (https://pi.delivery/)

Interviews

* 24⁄7 resiliency (Google Cloud Next ‘17) youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sHI6U92KvQ)

* Smart, Secure, and Modern app delivery for enterprises and cloud-natives (Google Cloud Next ‘17) youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7U4oH1XnPw)

* Building Microservices book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033158.do)

* Production-Ready Microservices book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920053675.do)

* Site Reliability Engineering book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html)

* Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-a-new-era-of-customer-support-Google-Customer-Reliability-Engineering.html)

* Managed Instance Groups docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/creating-groups-of-managed-instances)

Question of the week

Why should I be using Cloud Spanner, rather than Cloud SQL? (Thanks AJ!)

* What’s the difference between Google Cloud Spanner and Cloud SQL? quora (https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-Google-Cloud-Spanner-and-Cloud-SQL/answer/Zdenko-Hrcek)

* Cloud Spanner docs (https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/)

* Cloud Spanner Pricing docs (https://cloud.google.com/spanner/pricing)

Where can you find us next?

Mark will be heading to Polyglot Vancouver Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/PolyglotVancouver/events/238312555/) in April,

and then on to East Coast Games Conference (http://ecgconf.com/) and Vector (http://vectorconf.com/)

Francesc will be presenting at Gophercon China (http://www.bagevent.com/event/357764) in April.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/MQ7s1uJswt4)