Google Cloud Platform Podcast

You might have heard about Improbable teaming up with Google Cloud , and you might want to know more about it. Well, this episode is for you! Rob Whitehead , CTO and co-founder of Improbable, joins the podcast to explain to your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc , everything there is to know about Improbable, SpatialOS, and their relationship to Google Cloud Platform. About Rob Rob Whitehead co-founded...

Answering the call from last episode, Soam Vasani joins your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc , today to tell them about Fission, a Function as a Service framework built on top of Kubernetes. About Soam Soam Vasani is a software engineer at Platform9 Systems Inc, where he works on the Fission framework. In the past he's worked on distributed storage and other stuff at VMware. He's interested in languag...

Our beloved teammate Paul Newson is back from his SRE rotation to tell us about all the lessons that he learned during all these months. Your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc , are as always here to ask all the burning questions. About Paul Paul is an SRE Advocate at Google. As part of Google's Cloud developer relations team, he helps our customers understand reliability best practices based on his exp...

In this second episode of the year we'll talk Java! Ray Tsang and Rajeev Dayal tell your co-hosts Mark and Francesc everything there is to know about Java on Google Cloud Platform. You will learn about what you can currently as a Java developer on Google Cloud Platform, but also what to expect on the future. About Ray Ray is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. Ray had extensive han...

We're back! And we're bringing a seriously cool interview about Pokémon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic . In this interview your co-hosts Francesc and Mark chat with Ed about the whole history of Pokémon GO , from the inception of Niantic to the amazing success and the scaling challenges they faced. About Ed Ed Wu is a Director, Software Engineering at Niantic who le...

In the last episode for 2016, Mark and Francesc look at all their favourite moments from this year, including their favourite episodes, guests and Cool Things of the Week. Cool thing of the week Google partners with Improbable to support next generation of video games blog Announcing new Google Cloud Client Libraries for four key services blog Kubernetes 1.5: Supporting Production Workloads blog F...

Today we learn everything there is to be learnt about Managed Infrastructure from Pawel Siarkiewicz and Jerzy Foryciarz , two Product Managers at Google working on the topic. Your co-hosts Francesc and Mark are here to help you understand what is Managed Infrastructure and why sometimes it might be just the right level of abstraction and automation you need. About Pawel Pawel Siarkiewicz is a Prod...

This week Alan Ho from Apigee joins your cohosts Francesc and Mark to talk about the lifecycle of an API. About Alan Ho Alan is an engineer and entrepreneur, and leads developer advocacy for Apigee - an API Management provider newly acquired by Google Cloud. In addition to helping out customers build better APIs, he organizes API conferences and technical talks on all things APIs. Prior to Apigee,...

Today Aja Hammerly , Developer Advocate and fellow teammate at Google Cloud Platform, joins your cohosts Francesc and Mark to tell us about all the cool things you can do with Ruby on Google Cloud. About Aja Hammerly Aja lives in Seattle where she is a Developer Advocate at Google and a member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. Her favorite languages are Ruby and Prolog. She also loves working with larg...

This week your cohosts Francesc and Mark travel all the way to sunny Sunnyvale, CA to interview some Google Developer Experts on the amazing things they do. Google Developer Experts are a very interesting group of highly skilled people with a passion for technology and spreading their knowledge. We will talk about how they are using the cloud to improve research on cancer. Cool thing of the week H...

Sandeep Dinesh , a fellow Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform, joins your cohosts Francesc and Mark to talk about how Mark and Sandeep built a fun IoT version of Simon Says. Get ready for some real hacking, involving gRPC, Kubernetes, many programming languages, and even a bit of soldering! About Sandep Dinesh Sandeep started coding and creating websites when he was 12 and hasn't stopped....

Today your cohosts Francesc and Mark celebrate the fiftieth episode interviewing Michelle Noorali and Matt Butcher about Helm , a package manager for Kubernetes: like apt/yum/homebrew for Kubernetes. About Michelle Noorali Michelle Noorali is a software engineer at Deis. She is a Core Maintainer on the Helm project. Michelle is also the co-lead of the Kubernetes Special Interest Group for Applicat...

Today Amruta Gulanikar and Chris Sells , experts from the Windows and .NET community and part of the Google Cloud team, join your cohosts Francesc and Mark to discuss why you should run your Windows and .NET work loads on Google Cloud. About Amruta Gulanikar Prior to joining Google Amruta spent 5+ years as a PM in the Office division at Microsoft working on many different products. Just before she...

Ines Envid , a Product Manager for Cloud Networking, joins the podcast today to tell us how mind blowing Google's network is and how you can make the best of it! Let Francesc and Mark ask all the questions about VPCs, Load Balancers, and Routers you always wanted to know the answer to. About Ines Ines is a product manager in Cloud Networking. She has dedicated her career to in product, and develop...

Swati Kulshreshth and Emeka Okonkwo join your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc , today to give us an overview of what the Google Cloud Abuse team, how it can impact you, and in what ways it protects everyone: including you! About Swati Swati leads developer experience for Cloud TnS. She is responsible for ensuring that developers whose projects are flagged for suspicious activity can easily fix the iss...

Today we have the incredible honor to interview John Wilkes , Principle Engineer at Google and co-author of the Borg paper , about the history of Borg and how Kubernetes came to be. And guess what, Mark is very excited! Francesc is excited too, though. About John John Wilkes has been at Google since 2008, where he is working on cluster management and infrastructure services. Before that, he spent...

Russell Smith , cofounder and CTO of Rainforest QA , joins the podcast to explain to your dear cohosts Francesc and Mark how they power their analytics platform with BigQuery , streaming thousands of rows per second. About Russell Russell is the CTO & Co-Founder of Rainforest QA. In a past life he provided consultancy for startups & companies around development, ops, architecture design and capaci...

Google Cloud Endpoints has recently been rereleased and Dan Ciruli and Sep Ebrahimzadeh join us this episode to tell your cohosts Mark and Francesc everything there is to know about it. About Dan Dan Ciruli is a product manager at Google who works on Cloud Endpoints and API infrastructure. He used to play a lot of ultimate when he had knees and write a lot of software when he had time. He'll try t...

Brandon Philips , CTO of CoreOS , tells your cohosts Mark and Francesc why they chose gRPC for the newest version of etcd and how this improved its performance and development flow. About Brandon Brandon Philips is helping to build modern server infrastructure at CoreOS as CTO. Prior to CoreOS, he worked at Rackspace hacking on cloud monitoring and was a Linux kernel developer at SUSE. As a gradua...

Umesh Shankar has been working on making Google secure for many years and he's come to tell you and your cohosts Francesc and Mark how encryption helps keep Google Cloud Platform users safe. About Umesh Umesh Shankar is a Principal Engineer based in New York, focusing on security and privacy. He created and continues to lead the Data Protection effort at Google, working to keep users' data safe in...

Descartes Labs is creating an incredible living atlas of the world from huge datasets leveraging the power of Google Cloud Platform and Tim Kelton , one of the co-founders of Descartes Labs, is here to your cohosts Francesc Campoy and Mark Mandel all about it. About Tim Tim is a co-founder of Descartes Labs focuses on building distributed systems using cloud architecture to better see how the eart...

Mark is back right on time to interview Alan Fregtman , a pipeline developer working at Rodeo FX . Alan will explain how Google Cloud Platform enables Rodeo FX artist to create amazing visual effects faster. Rodeo FX is very well known for their work on Game of Thrones, Deadpool, and many others. I recommend watching this demo video to get an idea of their talent. Game Of Thrones - Season 6 - VFX...

This week, Terry Ryan and Brent Shaffer join Francesc and guest host Chris Broadfoot to talk all about PHP on Google Cloud Platform About Terry Terry Ryan is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform team. He has 15 years of experience working with the web - both front end and back. He is passionate about web standards and wants to bring web developers to the Google Cloud Platform. Before...

Paul Newson is back to the podcast to tell us about his experience as an SRE, or Site Reliability Engineer. They keep Google and Google Cloud running and he explains to your cohosts Francesc and Mark how they make that happen. About Paul Paul currently is going through a six month rotation as a Software Reliability Engineer, previously he focused on helping developers harness the power of Google C...

Carter Morgan is back to discuss with your cohosts Francesc and Mark more on Kubernetes 1.3 and what is new for GKE, aka Google Container Engine. About Carter Carter Morgan , a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, co-created the Udacity course Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes and presented Best Practices for Orchestrating the Cloud with Kubernetes at Google IO16. On the side, he teaches pr...