Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hosts</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/carterthecomic"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carter Morgan</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/agmsbusho"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anthony Bushong</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">are in the studio this week! We’re talking about Prometheus with guests</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/leeyanco"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lee Yanco</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/ashidhull"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ashish Kumar</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and learning about the build process for Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Prometheus and how Home Depot uses this tool to power their business.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To begin with, Lee helps us understand what Managed Service for Prometheus is. Prometheus, a popular monitoring solution for Kubernetes, lets you know that your project is up and running and in the event of a failure, Prometheus lets you know what happened. But as Kubernetes projects scale and spread across the globe, Prometheus becomes a challenge to manage, and that’s where Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Prometheus comes in. Lee describes why Prometheus is so great for Kubernetes, and Ashish talks about CNCF’s involvement helps open source tools integrate easily. With the help of Monarch, Google’s Managed Service stands above the competition, and Lee explains what Monarch is and how it works with Prometheus to benefit users.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ashish talks about Home Depot’s use of Google Cloud and the Managed Service for Prometheus, and how Home Depot’s multiple data centers make data monitoring both trickier and more important. With Google Cloud, Home Depot is able to easily ensure everything is healthy and running across data centers, around the world, at an immense scale. He describes how Home Depot uses Managed Service for Prometheus in each of these data center environments from the point of view of a developer and talks about how easy Prometheus and the Managed Service are to integrate and use.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lee and Ashish wrap up the show with a look at how Home Depot and Google have worked together to create and adjust tools for increased efficiency. In the future, tighter integration into the rest of Google Cloud’s suite of products is the focus.</span></p> <h5><strong>Lee Yanco</strong></h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/leeyanco"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lee Yanco</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is the Product Management lead for Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus. He also works on Monarch, Google’s planet-scale in-memory time series database, and on Cloud Monitoring’s Kubernetes observability experience.</span></p> <h5><strong>Ashish Kumar</strong></h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/ashidhull"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ashish Kumar</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is Senior Manager for Site Reliability and Production Engineering for The Home Depot.</span></p> <h5><strong>Cool things of the week</strong></h5> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cloud Next registration is open</span> <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next"><span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Introducing Parallel Steps for Workflows: Speed up workflow executions by running steps concurrently</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/introducing-parallel-steps-workflows-speed-up-workflow-executions-by-running-steps-concurrently"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">blog</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to think about threat detection in the cloud</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-to-think-about-threat-detection-in-the-cloud"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">blog</span></a></li> <li style="display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GCP Podcast Episode 218: Chronicle Security with Dr. Anton Chuvakin and Ansh Patniak</span> <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-218-chronicle-security-with-dr-anton-chuvakin-and-ansh-patniak/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">podcast</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h5><strong>Interview</strong></h5> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prometheus</span> <a href="https://prometheus.io/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PromQL</span> <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> site</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/managed-prometheus"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> docs</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kubernetes</span> <a href="https://kubernetes.io/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CNCF</span> <a href="https://www.cncf.io/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database</span> <a href="https://research.google/pubs/pub50652/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">research</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cloud Monitoring</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/monitoring"><span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cloud Logging</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/logging"><span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google Cloud’s operations suite</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/operations"><span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> </ul> <h5><strong>What’s something cool you’re working on?</strong></h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carter is focusing on getting organized, managing overwhelm, and comedy festivals.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anthony is testing a few new exciting features, working with build provenance in</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/build"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cloud Build</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, jobs and network file systems in</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/run"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cloud Run</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <h5><strong>Hosts</strong></h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carter Morgan and Anthony Bushong</span></p>