Google Cloud Platform Podcast

We return once again to Continuous Integration tooling, this time with a visual spin. Mike Fotinakis joins Mark and Melanie to discuss how they use Google Cloud Platform to develop Percy , the platform for continuous visual reviews for web apps. Mike Fotinakis Mike is Co-Founder and CEO of Percy, where he is working on problems at the intersection of design, development, and deployment. Mike has p...

The delightful Sam Ramji joins Mark and Melanie this week to talk about Google Cloud Platform, Open Source, Distributed Systems and Philosophy and how they are all interrelated. Sam Ramji A 20+ year veteran of the Silicon Valley and Seattle technology scenes, Sam Ramji is VP Product Management for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He was the founding CEO of Cloud Foundry Foundation, was Chief Strategy...

Amy Unruh and Sara Robinson join the podcast this week to talk with Mark and Melanie about the alpha launch of Cloud AutoML Vision. Cloud AutoML is a suite of products enabling developers with limited ML expertise to build high quality models using transfer learning and Neural Architecture Search techniques. AutoML Vision is the first product out the gate with a focus on making it easy to train cu...

Bringing you a special second episode this week with Matt Linton and Paul Turner sharing insights with Mark and Melanie about the CPU vulnerabilities, Spectre & Meltdown, and how Google coordinated and managed security with the broader community. We talked about how there has been minimal to no performance impact for GCP users and GCP's Live Migration helped deploy patches and mitigations without...

Launchpad Studio , a product development acceleration program focused on helping machine learning startups iterate quickly, fail fast, and collaborate on best practices. Malika Cantor and Peter Norvig talk with Mark and Melanie this week about how the Launchpad Studio program is helping startups overcome data, expertise and tooling barriers by providing access to talent and resources and building...

This week we get the band back together! Francesc Campoy Flores rejoins the show along with Director of Google Cloud Developer Relations Greg Wilson to talk all about 2017 and Google Cloud with Mark and Melanie About Francesc Campoy Flores Francesc Campoy Flores is the VP of Developer Relations at source{d} , He's also a Gopher, Catalan, LGBTQIA advocate, previous Google employee (and Podcast host...

Deep Kapadia and JP Robinson from New York Times join Mark and Francesc to discuss how they use Google Cloud Platform to serve the New York Times to its readers. About JP Robinson JP Robinson maintains NYT's internal and open source tools and frameworks that are related to the Go programming language. He also lead backend development of NYT's games platform. Recently his team completely rewrote ou...

Myles Borins talks with Mark and Francesc about Node.js from its history, how to contribute, the consensus-seeking governance, and why it's important to Google Cloud Platform. Node.js is an open-source, JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, and Google is a Platinum Member of the Node.js Foundation. About Myles Borins Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, a...

On this week's podcast, Eric Anderson shares how Dataprep helps summarize, transform, visualize and cleanup data on the Google Cloud Platform. When doing data analysis, typically data munging can take up most of the time and this serverless tool helps optimize the process. About Eric Anderson Eric is a Product Manager at Google working on Cloud Dataprep and recently Cloud Dataflow. Previously he w...

Colt McAnalis joins the podcast this week to talk about his Performance Atlas series where he dives into how to make Google Cloud applications faster and cheaper. In his words, his job is to help get someone promoted. About Colt McAnlis Colt McAnlis is a Developer Advocate at Google focusing on performance & compression. Before that, he was a graphics programmer in the games industry working at Bl...

Brian Granatir comes on the podcast this week to tell us all about the New Zealand company Smart Parking taking advantage of IoT Core and our Serverless products ! This is also the inaugural episode of Melanie joining Mark 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 f...

It's time to learn everything about Cloud IoT Core from Indranil Chakraborty, Product Manager, and Gabe Weiss, Developer Advocate on IoT. Listen to Mark and Francesc ask all of the questions you had about IoT but didn't dare to ask. About Indranil Chakraborty Indranil is a product manager for Google Cloud Platform and leads product strategy and development for Cloud IoT Core. Previously, he held p...

Google, the Cloud, or podcasts would not exist without the internet, so it's with an incredible honor that we celebrate our 100th episode with one of its creators: Vint Cerf. Listen to Mark and Francesc talk about the origins, current trends, and the future of the internet with one of the best people to cover the topic. About Vint Cerf Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist...

Firebase Developer Advocate David East joins Francesc and Mark to discuss the mega powerful combination of Firebase Hosting and Cloud Functions for Firebase! About David East David East is a Developer Advocate for Firebase at Google. Web die-hard. Also possibly the shortest bio on the podcast. Cool things of the week Introducing custom roles, a powerful way to make Cloud IAM policies more precise...

This summer (aka Australian winter) a new Cloud Region was announced in Australia and today Francesc and Mark talk to two Australian engineers, Andrew Walker founder of 3wks and Graham Polley , about how this new region has changed the way they think about the cloud down under. About Andrew Walker Andrew is the founder of 3wks who have delivered 190 projects on Google Cloud platform for enterprise...

Dan McGrath and Alex Dufetel join Francesc and Mark in the studio this week to discuss Cloud Firestore, the brand new, fully-managed NoSQL document database for mobile and web app development. About Dan McGrath Dan McGrath is the Product Manager for Cloud working on databases such as Cloud Firestore. Dan has spent the last decade working in product & engineering for large scale database systems. H...

Avere provides high performance file system solutions for hybrid cloud infrastructures, and is partner for Google Cloud Platform. To tell you all about it Francesc and Mark are joined by Scott Jeschonek, Director of Cloud Products at Avere, and Dave Elliott, Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform. About Scott Jeschonek Scott Jeschonek is Director of Cloud Products at Avere Systems, a leading...

Sourcegraph provides navigation tools for source code, and it's powered by Go and Google Cloud Platform. Quinn Slack , CEO and co-founder, joins your co-hosts Francesc and Mark to discuss how they built their features on top of our infrastructure. About Quinn Slack Quinn Slack is CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, code intelligence software that lets software teams ship better and faster. Prior to...

Have you ever wanted to know what powers BigQuery under the hood? Tino Tereshko and Jordan Tigani sit in front of the microphone with co-hosts Mark and Francesc to talk all about it! About Tino Tereshko Tino is the Big Data Lead for Office of the CTO at Google Cloud, focusing on building strategic relationships with the world's top Enterprises in the interest of sharing and accelerating technologi...

What is the difference between AI and ML? Melanie Warrick joins your co-hosts Mark and Francesc to discuss the differences and what applications it can have. About Melanie Warrick Melanie is a Senior Developer Advocate at Google. Previous experience includes work as a founding engineer on Deeplearning4J as well as implementing machine learning in production at Change.org. Prior experience also cov...

Michael Will , Director of Technical Operations at Phoenix One Games , joins your co-hosts Mark and Francesc today to tell us about their migration from their own hardware to the cloud, how they did it, and what they learned from it. About Michael Will Michael is experienced in the design and deployment of high performance compute clusters both from hardware and software aspect with a parallel exe...

In this week's episode Mark and Francesc are joined by Amit Pande , Product Management Leader for Google Cloud to discuss how machine learning can automate the media and entertainment industry. About Amit Pande Amit Pande is a Product Management Leader for Google Cloud. In this role, Amit is responsible for working closely with leaders across Media and Entertainment Industry to help them envision...

Mark and Francesc welcome the incredible Greg DeMichillie into their studio this week, to talk all about Google Cloud's Office of the CTO, and how it works with enterprise companies. About Greg DeMichillie Greg has 20 years experience in creating great computing platforms for developers and IT alike. He has been at Google since before the inception of Google Cloud Platform and as Director of Produ...

Today Francesc and Mark have the honor to be joined by Alim Jaffer and Mo Firouz from Heroic Labs to discuss their open source framework for social and realtime apps and games. About Alim Jaffer A member of the founding team, Alim joined Heroic Labs in 2016 as the VP of Product after having worked in startups focused in the games and health verticals. He is based in Vancouver, Canada and San Franc...

Tim Hockin , one of the engineers that started the Kubernetes project, joins Francesc and Mark to talk about all of the cool stuff coming up with Kubernetes 1.7. About Tim Hockin Tim was one of the first engineers on Kubernetes and GKE, where he has been involved in things like networking, storage, node management, API, plugins, and more. Before Kubernetes, he worked on Google's internal systems,...