Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Carter Morgan tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark all the new features of Kubernetes 1.3, the latest version of the open source container orchestration framework. 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 s...

Sharat Shroff and Morgan McLean , Product Managers at Google Cloud, cover with your cohosts Francesc and Mark some of the Stackdriver tools at your disposal when you're investigating an issue on your application. About Sharat Sharat is a product manager working on developer infrastructure for Google Cloud. He works on application monitoring and diagnostics. About Morgan Morgan is the product manag...

Aja Hammerly , Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, discusses with your cohosts Francesc and Mark what monitoring is and how Stackdriver makes it easy on Google Cloud, other cloud providers, and even on premise. About Aja 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 wit...

Mathias Meyer , CEO of Travis CI , discusses with your cohosts Francesc and Mark what are Continuous Integration and Deployment, and how Travis CI makes them easy and accessible to all. Did you know Travis CI ran on Google Cloud Platform? About Mathias Mathias Meyer is the CEO and core member of the team running Travis CI, a hosted continuous integration and deployment platform, and the author of...

Emily Melhuish and Lester Litchfield share with your cohosts Francesc and Mark how Trade Me , the second most visited page in New Zealand, integrates Google Analytics and BigQuery to understand their traffic and provide statistics to their users. About Emily Emily Melhuish is an Electrical Engineering student by day and a software developer by night. She works at Trade Me as a Full Stack developer...

Eli Bixby, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark all about TensorFlow and its applications. Do you want to know what neural networks are? Why does TensorFlow exists? How to get started with it? We cover that and more in our thirsty first episode. About Eli Eli is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google. He joined in 2014 and currently develops on Google Cloud...

Analytics is an essential part of many platforms, but it is specially important for gaming. Today we discuss how Google Cloud makes analytics simpler and super powerful. Kir Titievsky from Google Cloud Pub/Sub , Eric Anderson from Google Cloud Dataflow , and Tino Tereshko from Google BigQuery will tell your co-hosts Francesc and Mark how those three products get together to power an amazing analyt...

Fresh off the press from Google I/O 2016 , Francesc and Mark talk to Abe Haskins and Doug Stevenson about all the new features and improvements that have recently been announced for Firebase! About Abe Abe is a Developer Programs Engineer on the Firebase team who works closely with the Database team and contributes to many of Firebase's open-source projects. About Doug Doug is Developer Advocate o...

Virtual Machines, that old technology that powers the cloud! Today Scott Van Woudenberg tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark about virtual machines and you can use them with Google Cloud Platform. About Scott Scott Van Woudenberg spent sixteen years as a software engineer and engineering lead/manager before moving over to product management. He joined Google in 2012 as a Product Manager on Google...

John Feminella , Technical Advisor at Pivotal, tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark about unikernels: what they are, how they relate to containers, and why they are all the hype in cloud computing. About John John Feminella is an avid technologist, occasional public speaker, and curiosity advocate. He serves as an advisor to Pivotal, where he works on helping enterprises transform the way they wri...

Gustavo Ambrozio , from Pocket Gems , tells us about how they implemented and how they run War Dragons with the power of Google Cloud Platform. Learn how an incredibly popular mobile game can scale and provide social features, analytics, while keeping high throughput that enables low latency. About Gustavo Gustavo is a software engineer from Brazil with over 20 years experience, almost 8 years of...

Join us today for a conversation with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot from the Go team. They will discuss with your hosts Francesc Campoy and Mark Mandel why Go is so successful for all the things cloud and how you can use it with Google Cloud Platform. About Andrew Andrew has worked on Go at Google since almost the beginning, and has written tons of blog posts and talks on Go. He spends most o...

Today our guest star host, Brian Dorsey , and Mark interview Terrance Shepherd about his role as Technical Solutions Engineer working for Google Cloud Platform's Support Team. About Terrance Terrance is a Technical Solutions Engineer working for Google Cloud Platform's Support Team. He has been working to help customers from single person developers to Enterprises with 100's of Developers for the...

Andy Oxfeld, Engineering Manager at Humble Bundle, tells your hosts Francesc  and Mark  all the details about how Google Cloud Platform powers Humble Bundle . About Andy Andy Oxfeld manages the engineering department at Humble Bundle. He's been with the company for four years and worked on almost every part of our codebase at some point. Prior to being at Humble Bundle, he worked at Electronic Art...

In the twenty second episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview Rae Wang , a Product Manager at Google, about IAM on the Google Cloud Platform. About Rae Rae is a product manager at Google and looks after IAM (Identity and Access Management) on GCP. She has been at Google for 3 years and is based in the Seattle office. Before Google she worked in other software companies for...

In the twenty first episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview three of the engineers at Instrument, responsible for some of the amazing demos at GCP Next. Cool thing of the week Monitor your application errors with Stackdriver Error Reporting blog post Stackdriver Error Reporting docs Interviews We interviewed three engineers working at Instrument , an independent digital...

In the twentieth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview Justin Beckwith , a Product Manager at Google Cloud Platform, about how Node.js and the cloud work together. About Justin Justin is a Product Manager, web developer, and geek dad working on the developer experience for Google App Engine. He writes code, speaks at events, and rocks out on the ukulele. Before joining...

In the nineteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview some of the speakers at GCP Next 2016 from the conference floor. Cool thing of the week Most videos from GCP Next 2016 are already available on YouTube . The talks are organized in the following playlists: Keynotes Solutions Showcase Sessions Infrastructure & Operations Sessions App Development Sessions Data & Anal...

In the eighteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview Ian Lewis , a Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate based in Tokyo about Bigtable. About Ian Ian is a Developer Advocate on the Google Cloud Platform team working out of Tokyo. Ian loves Python and Go and helps run the largest Python event in Japan, PyCon JP. Ian is also interested in Docker and Kubernetes and h...

In the seventeenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview Hiren Patel and Dale Humby , two Google Developer Experts who live and work in South Africa. About Hiren DevOps engineer with a long history of system administration. Currently spending all my time doing a mix of backend development on GCP with python, web frontend development, and some android mobile work. About...

In the sixteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview Kelsey Hightower . Kelsey is a developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform and will tell us what is coming up with the next Kubernetes version. About Kelsey Kelsey has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a...

In the fifteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview Varun Talwar . Varun is a product manager in charge of gRPC, an open source project created at Google that helps you build distributed systems like we do internally at Google. About Varun Varun is a product manager in Google Cloud team and has recently taken on gRPC. Prior to this he was responsible for Google Cloud...

In the fourteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview Paul Newson . Paul is now a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform but was a Software Engineer in the Cloud Storage team. Together they discuss the multiple options available for data storage on the cloud and the trade offs to be taken into account while choosing one. About Paul Paul currently focuses on help...

In the thirteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview Sara Robinson and Vikrum Nijjar . Sara is now a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform but was part of Firebase until recently, and Vikrum - Firebase employee #1 - works as a Site Reliance Engineer (SRE) for Firebase. Together they discuss the origins, features, and future of Firebase. About Sara Sara is a De...

In the eleventh episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc  and Mark  interview Jen Tong , a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, about the Internet of Things. About Jen Jenny is a Developer Advocate on Cloud at Google. In this role she helps developers build cool stuff on all sorts of platforms. Previously she worked in a wide variety of software roles from robotics at NASA, to dev...