Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Francesc and Mark are joined this week by Jonathan Cham, a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud Platform, to discuss what his job entails and how our customers can benefit from it. About Jonathan Cham Jonathan Cham is a customer engineer who helps customers be successful on the Google Cloud Platform. For 10 years, he has advised companies of all stages– from startups to Fortune 50 companies on cloud...

Francesc and Mark are joined this week by Lukas Karlsson from Broad Institute and Mike Altarace from Google Cloud Platform to discuss the Platinum Customer relationship with Google Cloud Platform. About Lukas Karlsson Lukas has been working at the Broad in various roles over the last fourteen years or so. He now run our cloud architecture and strategy and works in developer relations, advocating f...

Due to popular demand, this week Francesc and Mark are joined by Product Manager Varun Talwar and Senior Staff Software Engineer Sven Mawson to discuss all things Istio , an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. About Varun Talwar Product Manager in Google Cloud; founding PM on @grpcio and @IstioMesh About Sven Mawson Software Engineer in Google Cloud; founder of @IstioMesh C...

Wendy Kan joins your co-hosts Francesc and Mark today to talk about Kaggle, their competitions, and the cool data sets available on their platform. Kaggle joined the Google family a few months ago, so it's a great opportunity to know more about the platform and the amazing community behind it. About Wendy Kan Wendy is a data scientist at Kaggle, the largest global data science community. Wendy wor...

If you have ever wanted to play with huge datasets - this is the episode for you! Partner Operations Manager Mike Hamberg and Program Manager Will Curran join your co-hosts Francesc and Mark to talk through all the public datasets that Google Cloud Platform hosts for you on BigQuery and Google Compute Storage. About Mike Hamberg Mike works on helping Google teams and partners take raw data from th...

It's all about open source monitoring this week, as Prometheus Co-Founder Julius Volz , joins your co-hosts Francesc and Mark to talk all about Prometheus . Where it came from, why it was built and why you should use it. About Julius Volz Julius co-founded the Prometheus monitoring system and lead the project to success at SoundCloud and beyond. He now focuses on growing the Prometheus community a...

Cloud Dataflow and its OSS counterpart Apache Beam are amazing tools for Big Data. So today your co-hosts Francesc and Mark interview Frances Perry , the Tech Lead and PMC for those projects, to join us and tell us more about it. About Frances Perry Frances Perry is a software engineer who likes to make big data processing easy, intuitive, and efficient. After many years working on Google's intern...

Yesterday Spinnaker reached its version 1.0 , today Francesc and Mark talk to Steven Kim and Christopher Sanson about it! Spinnaker is an open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform used in production at companies like Netflix, Waze, Target, and Cloudera, plus a new open-source command line interface (CLI) tool called halyard that makes it easy to deploy Spinnaker itself About Steven Kim...

In this episode Mark and Francesc enter the land of Continuous Integration , chatting with David Bendory and Christopher Sanson all about Container Builder . About David Bendory David Bendory is the Tech Lead for Google Cloud Container Builder. He joined Google on the Container Builder team in April 2015 after more than 20 years in software engineering on Wall Street. About Christopher Sanson Chri...

Fresh from Google I/O , Mark and Francesc are joined by the co-founders of Firebase , James Tamplin and Andrew Lee to let us in on all the new and awesome things that were announced! About James Tamplin James Tamplin is a co-founder of Firebase, and served as CEO until joining Google. He is now a Group Product Manager working on Firebase. James has a bachelor's and a master's degree in Industrial...

Basecamp Networks uses Machine Learning to diagnose easily what kind of sickness or parasite a crop might be suffering. They're powered by Google Cloud Platform, and their CEO, Craig Ganssle , is here to tell Mark and Francesc all about it. About Craig Ganssle Craig Ganssle is the Founder and CEO of Basecamp Networks. With over 20 years in the technology industry, Craig has extensive experience de...

This week Mark and Francesc have an in depth chat with Daniel Smith about the recent Kubernetes 1.6 release and all the amazing new features found therein. About Daniel Smith Currently TL of the API Machinery sub-team, Daniel has been working on Kubernetes since before it was open sourced, and contributed enough in the early days that he's still one of the top contributors overall. Before that, Da...

In this episode Mark and Francesc have a great interview with Chen Goldberg , the Engineering Director for Container Engine and Kubernetes at Google - discussing all about why Kubernetes is open source and the integrations that Google Container Engine has with the wider Google Cloud Platform. About Chen Goldberg Chen leads the Container Engine and OSS Kubernetes project engineering team in Google...

Have you ever wanted to apply Cloud Vision API to videos? Well, Sara Robinson is here to tell your co-hosts Mark and Francesc about Cloud Video Intelligence API , which allows you to do that and much more. About Sara Robinson Sara is a Developer Advocate on Google's Cloud Platform team, focusing on big data and machine learning. She helps developers build awesome apps through demos, online content...

This week, Mark and Francesc get a chance to talk directly to the Director of Customer Reliability Engineering himself, Luke Stone, all about CRE - where it came from, what it's goals are, and how it's been working with some big customers at Google Cloud Platform. About Luke Stone Luke is defining the customer experience of Google's new Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team. When he joined G...

One of our dear Developer Advocates, Yufeng Guo , joins your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc , to talk about the Cloud Machine Learning Engine . Cloud Machine Learning Engine offers a managed platform for training and serving Tensorflow models. About Yufeng Guo Yufeng is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, where he is trying to make machine learning more understandable and usable for a...

Digging back into our archive of interviews from Google Cloud Next, Mark and Francesc talk to Brad Rydzewski , creator of Drone , about the open source continuous integration and delivery platform. We are also excited to have the amazing Jessie Frazelle joining us as well! About Brad Rydzewksi Brad Rydzewski is the creator of the open source Drone project, which provides container based continuous...

The CEO and founder of Server Density , David Mytton , joins the podcast today to tell your co-hosts Mark and Francesc about their experience migrating from on-premise MongoDB to Cloud Bigtable. Server Density provides an open source logging and monitoring solution running on Google Cloud Platform. About David Mytton David Mytton is founder and CEO of Server Density , a scalable infrastructure mon...

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...

It is the last day of Google Cloud Next 2017 and we got two amazing interviews for you: Titan chips, head of Marketing, and head of Solution Architects, and more in a single episode! One more day, Francesc and Mark are back with a daily episode from Google Cloud Next ! Today we interview some of the many Google Cloud Partners attending the conference. Daily Highlights Full Day 3 Keynote 100 announ...

One more day, Francesc and Mark are back with a daily episode from Google Cloud Next ! Today we interview some of the many Google Cloud Partners attending the conference. Video Highlights Keynote Highlights in under 5 minutes! Full Day 2 Keynote Our favorite announcements Free usage limits for Google Cloud Platform products cloud.google.com/free PostgreSQL now available on Google Cloud SQL docs In...

Francesc and Mark are back again with our DAILY EPISODES from Cloud Next ! Today we are bringing you interviews for a wide variety of speakers and attendees! Video Highlights Keynote Highlights in under 4 minutes! Full Day 1 Keynote Interviews Sara Robinson Sara Robinson is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform , and came to talk to us about her amazing keynote demo on The Google Cloud Vi...

This week brings your hosts Francesc and Mark doing DAILY EPISODES from Cloud Next ! Today's episode brings interviews straight from the Cloud Next Community Summit! Interviews Kalev Leetaru Kalev Leetaru is the creator of the GDELT project, a global database of society, powered by Google Bigquery, Machine Learning APIs, and many other Google Cloud products. Tim Kelton Tim Kelton works at Descarte...

Following the saga of episodes on programming languages today your co-hosts, Francesc and Mark , have the honor to talk to Jon Wayne Parrott, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google Cloud Platform, about Python on the cloud. About Jon Wayne Jon Wayne focuses on the Python developer experience for Google Cloud Platform. He's an active contributor to multiple open-source Python projects. Cool things...

On the heels of the Cloud Spanner launch, Deepti Srivastava joins your hosts Francesc and Mark on this week's podcast to talk all about this globally distributed, horizontally scalable, relational database that also provides global consistency and ACID transactions! About Deepti Deepti Srivastava is passionate about technology and its ability to be a positive change enabler. As Product Manager for...