Storage with Paul Newson

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 helping developers harness the power of Google Cloud Platform to solve their big data problems. Previously, he was an engineer on Google Cloud Storage. Before joining Google, Paul founded a startup which was acquired by Microsoft, where he worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza Motorsport, before spending time working on machine learning problems at Microsoft Research.

Follow Paul on Twitter @newsons_nybbles.

Cool thing of the week

• Opinionated Deployment Tools & Kubernetes blog post and Github repository

Interview

• When to Pick Google Bigtable vs Other Cloud Platform Databases blog post.
• Where Should I Store My Stuff? - slightly outdated video.
• Choosing a Storage Option docs.
• Google Drive docs.
• Google Cloud Storage docs.
• Google Cloud Datastore docs.
• Google Cloud SQL docs.
• Google Cloud Bigtable docs.
• Google BigQuery docs.
• Google Cloud Dataflow docs

Question of the week

Question from Jeff Schnitzer: Can you use Java 8 features in Standard App Engine?

• Google App Engine Standard Environment docs.
• Google App Engine Managed VMs docs.
• Retrolambda Github repo.