Developer Relations with Mandy Waite

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Episode | Podcast

Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/tekgrrl">Mandy Waite</a> joins <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl">Melanie</a> to share what is developer relations and how trust and empathy are key to its success. We discuss meeting developers where they are and the wide variety of differing communities that exist across the technology ecosystem.</p> <h5 id="mandy-waite">Mandy Waite</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/tekgrrl">Mandy Waite</a> has worked at Google for nearly 8 years, 6 of which have been spent growing and nurturing the Cloud Advocacy team. She heads up the Infrastructure and Ops Advocacy team in Google Cloud with a focus on Cloud Native, DevOps, SRE, Observability and Security.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Better cost control with Google Cloud Billing programmatic notifications <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Better-cost-control-with-Google-Cloud-Billing-programmatic-notifications.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Music in Motion: a Firebase and IoT story <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Music-in-motion-a-Firebase-and-IoT-story.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Codelabs and Challenges <a href="https://codelabs.developers.google.com/cloud">codelabs</a></li> <li>Kubernetes Podcast <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/">site</a> and <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-kubernetes-podcast-from-google.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://cloud.google.com/">site</a></li> <li>#46 Borg and K8s with John Wilkes <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-46-borg-and-k8s-with-john-wilkes/"> podcast</a></li> <li>#118 OpenCensus with Morgan McLean and JBD <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-118-opencensus-with-morgan-mclean-and-jbd/"> podcast</a></li> <li>Felipe Hoffa & BigQuery <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fhoffa">reddit</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@hoffa">blog</a> and <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-8-big-data-with-felipe-hoffa/"> podcast</a></li> <li>Livestreaming with Jen Tong <a href="https://twitch.tv/mimmingcodes">Twitch</a>, Holden Karau <a href="https://twitch.tv/holdenkarau">Twitch</a>, and Chris Broadfoot <a href="https://twitch.tv/cbro">Twitch</a></li> <li>Ben Treynor on What is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’ <a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/interview/ben-treynor.html">interview</a></li> <li>Solomon Hykes at dotScale on Docker <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N3n9FzebAA">video</a></li> <li>Istio <a href="https://istio.io/">site</a> and #85 Istio with Varun Talwar and Sven Mawson <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-85-istio-with-varun-talwar-and-sven-mawson/"> podcast</a></li> <li>Kubernetes <a href="http://Kubernetes.io">site</a></li> <li>Docker <a href="https://www.docker.com/">site</a></li> <li>The Core Competencies of Developer Relations <a href="https://medium.com/google-developers/the-core-competencies-of-developer-relations-f3e1c04c0f5b"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>Where do I go to learn about <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/data-protection-factsheet-citizens_en_0.pdf"> GDPR</a> in regards to Google Cloud Platform?</p> <ul> <li>Google Cloud: Ready for GDPR <a href="https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-ready-for-gdpr/"> blog</a></li> <li>Google Cloud & the General Data Protection Regulation <a href="https://cloud.google.com/security/gdpr/">site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Mark is speaking at the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Monthly-SF-Game-Development-Community/">Monthly SF Game Development Community</a>, presenting on <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Monthly-SF-Game-Development-Community/events/250559719/"> You Can’t Just Add More Servers</a> on May the 30th in San Francisco.</p> <p>Melanie is speaking at a joint <a href="http://wimlds.org">WiMLDS</a> and <a href="http://www.pyladies.com">PyLadies</a> event “Paths to Data Science” on June 26th. More details to come.</p>