Podevcast

2022 Year End Wrap Up

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Episode | Podcast

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Happy Holidays from all of us at Google! This week, hosts <a href="https://twitter.com/carterthecomic" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Carter Morgan</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/stephr_wong" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stephanie Wong</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/maxsaltonstall" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Max Saltonstall</a> are sharing their favorite moments from the year! From great partnerships with national companies, new releases in some of your favorite Google software tools, and a trillion digits of pi, we’re breaking down some 2022 highlights and introducing special guest Podcast Producer Kevin McCormack to help with a fun podcast trivia game! <h5>Carter Morgan</h5> <a href="https://twitter.com/carterthecomic" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Carter Morgan</a> is Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, where he creates and hosts content on Google’s Youtube channel, co-hosts several Google Cloud podcasts, and designs courses like the Udacity course “Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes” he co-created with Kelsey Hightower. Carter Morgan is an international standup comedian, who’s approach of creating unique moments with the audience in front of him has seen him perform all over the world, including in Paris, London, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with Joe White. And in 2019, and the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Previously, he was a programmer for the USAF and Microsoft. <h5>Stephanie Wong</h5> <a href="https://twitter.com/stephr_wong" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stephanie Wong</a> is a Developer Advocate focusing on online content across all Google Cloud products. She’s a host of the GCP Podcast and the Where the Internet Lives podcast, along with many GCP Youtube video series. She is the winner of a 2021 Webby Award for her content about data centers. Previously she was a Customer Engineer at Google and at Oracle. Outside of her tech life she is a former pageant queen and hip hop dancer and has an unhealthy obsession with dogs. <h5>Max Saltonstall</h5> <a href="https://twitter.com/maxsaltonstall" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Max Saltonstall</a> is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google Cloud. He is a father, teacher, storyteller, speaker, educator, nefarious villain, game designer, juggler, and is only part zombie. <h5>Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Boost medical discoveries with AlphaFold on Vertex AI <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/boost-medical-discoveries-alphafold-vertex-ai" rel="noopener" target="_blank">blog</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">6 common mistakes to avoid in RESTful web API Design <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/restful-web-api-design-best-practices" rel="noopener" target="_blank">blog</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Marketing Analytics With Google Cloud <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/marketing-analytics-google-cloud" rel="noopener" target="_blank">blog</a></li> </ul> <h5>Our Favorite Episodes of 2022</h5> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Stephanie’s Favorites</li> <li style="display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 290: Resiliency at Shopify with Camilo Lopez and Tai Dickerson <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-290-resiliency-at-shopify-with-camilo-lopez-and-tai-dickerson/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 315: Cloud Functions (2nd gen) with Jaisen Mathai and Sara Ford <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-315-cloud-functions-2nd-gen-with-jaisen-mathai-and-sara-ford/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 307: FinOps with Joe Daly <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-307-finops-with-joe-daly/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Carter’s Favorites</li> <li style="display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 308: New Pi World Record with Emma Haruka Iwao and Sara Ford <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-308-new-pi-world-record-with-emma-haruka-iwao-and-sara-ford/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 327: ML/AI Data Science for Data Analytics with Jed Dougherty and Dan Darnell <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-327-ml-ai-data-science-for-data-analytics-with-jed-dougherty-and-dan-darnell/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 289: Cloud Security Megatrends with Phil Venables <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-289-cloud-security-megatrends-with-phil-venables/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Max’s Favorites</li> <li style="display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 316: Google Cloud for Higher Education with Laurie White and Aaron Yeats <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-316-google-cloud-for-higher-education-with-laurie-white-and-aaron-yeats/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 317: Launching Products at Google Cloud with Anita Kibunguchy-Grant and Gabe Weiss <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-317-launching-products-at-google-cloud-with-anita-kibunguchy-grant-and-gabe-weiss/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 325: Digital Sovereignty with Archana Ramamoorthy and Julien Blanchez <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-325-digital-sovereignty-with-archana-ramamoorthy-and-julien-blanchez/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Stephanie’s Honorable Mentions</li> <li style="display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 323: Next 2022 with Forrest Brazeal and Stephanie Wong <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-323-next-2022-with-forrest-brazeal/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 298: Celebrating Women’s History Month with Vidya Nagarajan Raman <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-298-celebrating-womens-history-month-with-vidya-nagarajan-raman/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Carter’s Honorable Mentions</li> <li style="display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 312: Managed Service for Prometheus with Lee Yanco and Ashish Kumar <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-312-managed-service-for-prometheus-with-lee-yanco-and-ashish-kumar/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 290: Resiliency at Shopify with Camilo Lopez and Tai Dickerson <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-290-resiliency-at-shopify-with-camilo-lopez-and-tai-dickerson/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Max’s Honorable Mentions</li> <li style="display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 326: Assured Workloads with Key Access Justifications with Bryce Buffaloe and Seth Denney | Google Cloud Platform Podcast <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-326-assured-workloads-with-key-access-justifications-with-bryce-buffaloe-and-seth-denney/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h5>Hosts</h5> Stephanie Wong, Carter Morgan and Max Saltonstall