Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000
<p>VP of Infrastructure at Google Cloud <a href="https://twitter.com/eric_brewer">Eric Brewer</a>, talks to <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl">Melanie</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> all about open source at Google Cloud, distributed systems, hybrid cloud, and more!</p> <h5 id="eric-brewer">Eric Brewer</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/eric_brewer">Eric Brewer</a> is the main <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor">inventor</a> of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_networking">wireless networking</a> scheme called WiLDNet, which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_world">developing world</a>. He is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure">tenured</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor">professor</a> of Computer Science at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley">UC Berkeley</a>. In 1996, Brewer co-founded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi_Corporation">Inktomi Corporation</a> (bought by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a> in 2003) and became a paper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire">billionaire</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble">dot-com bubble</a>. Working with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>, he helped to create <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA.gov">USA.gov</a>, which launched in 2000.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_(scientist)#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> He is known for formulating the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_Theorem">CAP Theorem</a> about distributed network applications in the late 1990s.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_(scientist)#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Starting in May 2011 he has been on a sabbatical at Google as VP of Infrastructure.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_(scientist)#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></p> <p>Credits: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_(scientist)">Wikipedia</a></p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Next <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/sf/">site</a> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Next London <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/london">site</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Next Tokyo <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/tokyo">site</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available and ready for your production workloads <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/Cloud-SQL-for-PostgreSQL-now-generally-available-and-ready-for-your-production-workloads.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Calling C functions from BigQuery with Web Assembly <a href="https://medium.com/@sourcedtech/calling-c-functions-from-bigquery-with-web-assembly-c19c023fc755"> blog</a> <ul> <li>BigQuery beyond SQL and JS: Running C and Rust code at scale <a href="https://medium.com/@hoffa/bigquery-beyond-sql-and-js-running-c-and-rust-code-at-scale-33021763ee1f"> blog</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Kubernetes best practices: How and why to build small container images <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/Kubernetes-best-practices-how-and-why-to-build-small-container-images.html"> blog</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGz_cbtCiEA">youtube</a><br /></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Nine faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences <a href="http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/04/18/american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences-2018/"> blog</a></li> <li>USA.gov <a href="https://www.usa.gov">site</a></li> <li>Eric Brewer <a href="https://research.google.com/pubs/EricBrewer.html">research at google</a></li> <li>Kubernetes <a href="https://kubernetes.io">site</a></li> <li>2014 Dockercon Keynote <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrxnVKZeqK8">youtube</a></li> <li>2017 Google Cloud Next Keynote <a href="https://youtu.be/h9FSqVbdHis?t=1224">youtube</a></li> <li>Istio <a href="https://istio.io">site</a></li> <li>Extend the Kubernetes API with CustomResourceDefinitions <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/extend-api-custom-resource-definitions/"> docs</a></li> <li>Mentors <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Lampson">Butler Lampson</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov">Barbara Liskov</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Patterson_(computer_scientist)"> David Patterson</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>If I want to visualise the network traffic between pods/services within my Kubernetes cluster, is there an easy way to do this?</p> <ul> <li>Weavescope <a href="https://www.weave.works/docs/scope/latest/features/">features</a> <a href="https://www.weave.works/docs/scope/latest/installing/">installation</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Mark can be found streaming <a href="https://agones.dev">Agones</a> development on <a href="https://twitch.tv/markmandel">Twitch</a>, and will be presenting on Agones at <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/sf/sessions/session/155665">Cloud Next</a>.</p> <p>Melanie will be presenting at the <a href="https://meetings.internet2.edu/2018-global-summit/">internet2 Global Summit</a>, May 9th in San Diego, and will also be talking at the <a href="https://understandrisk.org/event/ur2018/">Understand Risk Forum</a> on May 17th, in Mexico City.</p>
