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), and creator of the Just For Func YouTube series!

About Greg Wilson

Greg Wilson is the Director of Google Cloud Developer Relations, overseeing
developer relations work across both G Suite and Google Cloud Platform.

Cool things of the week


Jeff Dean’s talk at NIPS on ML for Systems and Systems for ML sides
The Case for Learned Index Structures paper
KubeFlow github hackernews
Manage Google Kubernetes Engine from Cloud Console dashboard, now generally available blog


Interview


Top 5 Downloaded Episode of 2017


#88 Kubernetes 1.7 with Tim Hockin
#91 The Future of Media with Machine Learning with Amit Pande
#93 What’s AI with Melanie Warrick
#75 Container Engine with Chen Goldberg
#100 Vint Cerf: past, present, and future of the internet

Greg’s Favourites


#57 Pokémon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic
#68 The Home Depot with William Bonnell
#86 Broad Institute and Platinum Customers with Lukas Karlsson and Mike Altarace

Francesc’s Favourites


#62 Cloud Spanner with Deepti Srivastava

Mark’s Favourites


The SRE Category on GCP Podcast

Melanie’s Favourites


#57 Pokémon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic

Favourite announcements, products and more at Google Cloud Platform


Cloud Spanner
Cloud Machine Learning Engine
TensorFlow
GCE Virtual Machines, e.g. Pre-emptible VMs
Go 1.8 on App Engine
Cheaper GPUs
Kubernetes



Question of the week

What were your personal highlights for 2017?


Mark


Getting involved with SIG API Machinery with Kubernetes

Melanie


Watching Haben Girma, the first Deafblind Graduate of Harvard Law School, speak about accessibility in tech.



Where can you find us next?

It’s the end of the year! So we’ll be taking a break, and returning in January 2018!