A Year in Review with Francesc Campoy Flores and Greg Wilson

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!