This week brings us back to an interview that we did while at Cloud Next last week. Mark and Francesc talk to William Bonnell, Senior Director of SRE at The Home Depot all about SRE culture, and the CRE team as well.

About William Bonnell

William Bonnell is Senior Director of Site Reliability Engineering at The Home Depot - 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
  • Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) for Google Cloud Platform (Beta) site
  • Cloud.google.com/community site
  • Cloud SQL for Postgre SQL (Beta) site
  • 64 Core machines + more memory blog
• A new issue tracker for Google Cloud Platform blog
• Happy Pi Day! site

Interviews

• 24⁄7 resiliency (Google Cloud Next '17) youtube
• Smart, Secure, and Modern app delivery for enterprises and cloud-natives (Google Cloud Next '17) youtube
• Building Microservices book
• Production-Ready Microservices book
• Site Reliability Engineering book
• Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog
• Managed Instance Groups docs

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
• Cloud Spanner docs
• Cloud Spanner Pricing docs

Where can you find us next?

Mark will be heading to Polyglot Vancouver Meetup in April, and then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector

Francesc will be presenting at Gophercon China in April.