Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/briandorsey">Brian Dorsey</a> spend today talking Python with <a href="https://twitter.com/di_codes">Dustin Ingram</a>. Python is an interpreted, dynamically typed language, which encourages very readable code. Python is popular for web applications, data science, and much more! Python works great on Google Cloud, especially with App Engine, Compute Engine, and Cloud Functions. To learn more about best (and worst) use cases, listen in!</p> <h5 id="dustin-ingram">Dustin Ingram</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/di_codes">Dustin Ingram</a> is a Developer Advocate at Google, focused on supporting the Python community on Google Cloud. He’s also a member of the Python Packaging Authority, maintainer of PyPI, and organizer for the PyTexas conference.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy <a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/machine-learning-can-boost-value-wind-energy/"> blog</a></li> <li>Compute Engine Guest Attributes <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata"> site</a></li> <li>Colopl open sourced a Cloud Spanner driver for Laravel framework <a href="https://medium.com/google-cloud/colopl-open-sourced-a-cloud-spanner-driver-for-laravel-framework-4ca1db018a3"> site</a></li> <li>Running Redis on GCP: four deployment scenarios <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/running-redis-on-gcp-four-deployment-scenarios"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>GCP Podcast Episode 3: Kubernetes and Google Container Engine <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-3-kubernetes-and-google-container-engine/"> podcast</a></li> <li>Python <a href="https://www.python.org/">site</a></li> <li>Extending Python with C or C++ <a href="https://docs.python.org/2/extending/extending.html">docs</a></li> <li>PyPy <a href="https://pypy.org/index.html">site</a></li> <li>PyPI <a href="https://pypi.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 Functions <a href="https://cloud.google.com/functions/">site</a></li> <li>Ubuntu <a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">site</a></li> <li>Flask <a href="http://flask.pocoo.org/">site</a></li> <li>Flask documentation <a href="http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/">docs</a></li> <li>Docker <a href="https://www.docker.com/">site</a></li> <li>Python documentation <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/">docs</a></li> <li>PyCon <a href="https://us.pycon.org/2019/about/">site</a></li> <li>PyCaribbean <a href="http://pycaribbean.com/">site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/tutorials/imagemagick">How can I manipulate images with Cloud Functions?</a></p> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Mark will be at <a href="https://gdconf.com">GDC</a>, <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf">Cloud NEXT</a>, and <a href="http://ecgconf.com">ECGC</a> in April.</p> <p>Dustin will be at <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf">Cloud Next</a> and <a href="https://us.pycon.org/2019/">PyCon</a>.</p> <p>Brian will be lecturing at <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf">Cloud Next</a>: ‘Where should I run my code?’</p>
