Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl">Melanie</a> are your hosts again this week as we talk with Steren Giannini and Stewart Reichling discussing what’s new with App Engine. Particularly its new second generation runtime, allowing headless Chrome, and better language support! And automatic scalability to make your life easier, too. App Engine also has an interesting way of inspiring new Google products. Tune in to learn more!</p> <h5 id="steren-giannini">Steren Giannini</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/steren">Steren Giannini</a> is a Product Manager on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He graduated from École Centrale Lyon, France and then was CTO of a startup that created mobile and multi-device solutions. After joining Google, Steren launched Stackdriver Error Reporting and now focuses on GCP’s serverless offering. Recently, Steren has been working on <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Increase-performance-while-reducing-costs-with-the-new-App-Engine-scheduler.html"> upgrading App Engine’s auto scaling system</a> and bringing <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Now-you-can-deploy-your-Node-js-app-to-App-Engine-standard-environment.html"> Node.js to App Engine standard environment</a>.</p> <h5 id="stewart-reichling">Stewart Reichling</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/stewblr">Stewart Reichling</a> is a Product Manager on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and has worked across Strategy, Marketing and Product Management at Google. He currently works on bringing new runtimes (Python, Node.js, +more to come!) to App Engine and Cloud Functions.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Robot dance party: How we created an entire animated short at Next ‘18 <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/robot-dance-party-how-we-created-an-entire-animated-short-at-next-18"> blog</a></li> <li>What’s happening in BigQuery: integrated machine learning, maps, and more <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/whats-happening-bigquery-integrated-machine-learning-maps-and-more"> blog</a></li> <li>Protecting against the new “L1TF” speculative vulnerabilities <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/protecting-against-the-new-l1tf-speculative-vulnerabilities"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>App Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine">site</a></li> <li>Deploying Node.js on App Engine standard environment <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_9lpcfDCHs">video</a></li> <li>Introducing headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-headless-chrome-support-in-cloud-functions-and-app-engine"> blog</a></li> <li>Node 8 <a href="https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.0.0/">site</a></li> <li>Python 3.7.0 <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-370/">site</a></li> <li>App Engine PHP 7.2 Runtime Environment Beta <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/php7/runtime">site</a></li> <li>Headless Chrome <a href="https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headless/README.md"> site</a></li> <li>GCPPodcast Episode 23: Humble Bundle with Andy Oxfeld <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-23-humble-bundle-with-andy-oxfeld/"> podcast</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Datastore <a href="https://cloud.google.com/datastore/">site</a></li> <li>App Engine Task Queue <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/taskqueue/"> site</a></li> <li>Ubuntu <a href="https://www.ubuntu.com">site</a></li> <li>gVisor <a href="https://github.com/google/gvisor">site</a></li> <li>Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Open-sourcing-gVisor-a-sandboxed-container-runtime.html"> blog</a></li> <li>App Engine Documentation <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/">site</a></li> <li>gcloud app deploy <a href="https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/app/deploy">site</a></li> <li>To send feedback, email <a href="mailto:stewartr@google.com">stewartr@google.com</a> or <a href="mailto:steren@google.com">steren@google.com</a></li> <li>App Engine Google Group <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-appengine">forum</a></li> <li>Operating Serverless Apps with Google Stackdriver <a href="https://youtu.be/wQ1LQeN6HG0">video</a></li> <li>App Engine’s new auto scaling system - scheduler <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Increase-performance-while-reducing-costs-with-the-new-App-Engine-scheduler.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>What does it mean when the recommendation is to update your image?</p> <ul> <li>Getting Image Vulnerabilities <a href="https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/get-image-vulnerabilities"> site</a></li> <li>Updating Managed Instance Groups <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/updating-managed-instance-groups"> site</a></li> <li>Node Images <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/node-images#automatic_upgrade_and_repair"> site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Melanie will be at <a href="http://www.deeplearningindaba.com">Deep Learning Indaba</a> and <a href="https://www.thestrangeloop.com">Strangeloop</a>.</p> <p>Mark will be at <a href="http://dev.paxsite.com/">Pax Dev</a> and <a href="http://west.paxsite.com/">Pax West</a> starting August 28th. In September, he’ll be at <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/tokyo">Tokyo NEXT</a> and <a href="https://www.thestrangeloop.com">Strangeloop</a>.</p>