VP of Infrastructure at Google Cloud Eric Brewer (https://twitter.com/eric_brewer), talks to

Melanie (https://twitter.com/nyghtowl) and Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) all about open source at Google Cloud,

distributed systems, hybrid cloud, and more!

Eric Brewer

Eric Brewer (https://twitter.com/eric_brewer) is the main inventor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor) of a wireless networking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_networking) scheme called WiLDNet, which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_world). He is a tenured (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure) professor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor) of Computer Science at UC Berkeley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley). In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi_Corporation) (bought by Yahoo! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!) in 2003) and became a paper billionaire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire) during the dot-com bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble). Working with Bill Clinton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton), he helped to create USA.gov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA.gov), which launched in 2000.[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_(scientist)#cite_note-1) He is known for formulating the CAP Theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_Theorem) about distributed network applications in the late 1990s.[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_(scientist)#cite_note-2) Starting in May 2011 he has been on a sabbatical at Google as VP of Infrastructure.[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_(scientist)#cite_note-3)

Credits: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_(scientist))

Cool things of the week

* Google Cloud Next site (https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/sf/)

* Google Cloud Next London site (https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/london)

* Google Cloud Next Tokyo site (https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/tokyo)

* Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available and ready for your production workloads blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/Cloud-SQL-for-PostgreSQL-now-generally-available-and-ready-for-your-production-workloads.html)

* Calling C functions from BigQuery with Web Assembly blog (https://medium.com/@sourcedtech/calling-c-functions-from-bigquery-with-web-assembly-c19c023fc755)

* BigQuery beyond SQL and JS: Running C and Rust code at scale blog (https://medium.com/@hoffa/bigquery-beyond-sql-and-js-running-c-and-rust-code-at-scale-33021763ee1f)

* Kubernetes best practices: How and why to build small container images blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/Kubernetes-best-practices-how-and-why-to-build-small-container-images.html) youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGz_cbtCiEA)

Interview

* Nine faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences blog (http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/04/18/american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences-2018/)

* USA.gov site (https://www.usa.gov)

* Eric Brewer research at google (https://research.google.com/pubs/EricBrewer.html)

* Kubernetes site (https://kubernetes.io)

* 2014 Dockercon Keynote youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrxnVKZeqK8)

* 2017 Google Cloud Next Keynote youtube (https://youtu.be/h9FSqVbdHis?t=1224)

* Istio site (https://istio.io)

* Extend the Kubernetes API with CustomResourceDefinitions docs (https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/extend-api-custom-resource-definitions/)

* Mentors

* Butler Lampson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Lampson)

* Barbara Liskov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov)

* David Patterson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Patterson_(computer_scientist))

Question of the week

If I want to visualise the network traffic between pods/services within my Kubernetes cluster, is there an easy way to do this?

* Weavescope features (https://www.weave.