Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/the_thagomizer">Aja Hammerly</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/briandorsey">Brian Dorsey</a> are here this week to start off a new year of podcasts! In an interview with Google Developer Advocate <a href="https://twitter.com/glasnt">Katie McLaughlin</a>, we talk about the advantages of Python 3 and why version 2 has been retired, as well as the cool things you can do with Django.</p> <p>Later, Katie discusses the complexities of deployment and how she makes it work smoothly with GCP, and we have some fun with emojis!</p> <h5 id="katie-mclaughlin">Katie McLaughlin</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/glasnt">Katie</a> has worn many different hats over the years. She is currently a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, and a Director of the Python Software Foundation. When she’s not changing the world, she enjoys making tapestries, cooking, and seeing just how well various application stacks handle emoji.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Running workloads on dedicated hardware just got better <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/sole-tenant-nodes-are-now-easier-to-update-scale-and-manage"> blog</a></li> <li>Container security summit is going on as we record this <a href="https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/con-sec-summit-20/register.html"> site</a></li> <li>Easily upgrade Windows Server 2008 R2 while migrating to Google Cloud <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/cloud-migration/migrate-and-upgrade-windows-server-2008-r2"> blog</a></li> <li>Launch of the BigQuery Weekly Data Challenge! <a href="https://goo.gle/bqchallenge">site</a></li> <li>New data engineering learning path <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/google-clouds-data-engineering-learning-path-is-now-updated"> site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Python Software Foundation <a href="https://www.python.org/psf-landing/">site</a></li> <li>PyCascades <a href="https://2020.pycascades.com">site</a></li> <li>Django Demo <a href="https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/django-demo-app-unicodex">site</a></li> <li>Emojipedia <a href="https://emojipedia.org">site</a></li> <li>App Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine">site</a></li> <li>Compute Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/">site</a></li> <li>Cloud Run <a href="https://cloud.google.com/run">site</a></li> <li>Cloud Build <a href="https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build">site</a></li> <li>Secrets Manager <a href="https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager/docs">site</a></li> <li>Kakapo Mountain Parrot <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakapo">site</a></li> <li>The Power ⚡️ and Responsibility 😓 of Unicode Adoption ✨ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUApj8z0UGE">video</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/tasks">I need to run something later, but Cron isn’t a good fit. What do I do?</a></p> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>We’ll be at <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf">Cloud Next</a> in San Francisco in April! Katie will also be at <a href="https://us.pycon.org">PyCon US</a> in April!</p> <h5 id="sound-effects-attribution">Sound Effects Attribution</h5> <ul> <li>“African Gray” by Jmagiera of <a href="https://Freesound.org">Freesound.org</a></li> </ul>
