Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000
<p>We have the pleasure this week of having the Director of Solutions for Google Cloud <a href="https://twitter.com/milesward">Miles Ward</a> and Cloud Solutions Architect <a href="https://twitter.com/grapesfrog">Grace Mollison</a> join <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl">Melanie</a> to discuss Solution Architects, what they do and how they interact with Customers at Google Cloud Platform.</p> <h5 id="miles-ward">Miles Ward</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/milesward">Miles Ward</a> is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur with a decade of experience building cloud infrastructures. Miles is Director of Solutions for Google Cloud; focused on delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization. He worked as a core part of the Obama for America 2012 “TECH” team, crashed Twitter a few times, helped NASA stream the Curiosity Mars Rover landing, put Skype back online in a pinch, and plays a mean electric sousaphone.</p> <h5 id="grace-mollison">Grace Mollison</h5> <p>Based in London, UK, <a href="https://twitter.com/grapesfrog">Grace Mollison</a> is a Cloud Solutions Architect where she helps customers to understand how to apply policies to their Google cloud platform environments as well as how to architect and deploy applications on the Google Cloud platform. In her spare time she spends time attempting to teach her international team how to speak the Queens english! Before Google Grace was a Solutions Architect at AWS where she worked with the AWS ecosystem and customers to ensure well architected solutions.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>We have awesome new intro and outro music. Did you notice?</li> <li>The thing is … Cloud IoT Core is now generally available <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/02/the-thing-is-Cloud-IoT-Core-is-now-generally-available.html"> blog</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/iot-core/">site</a></li> <li>JupyterLab is Ready for Users <a href="https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlab-is-ready-for-users-5a6f039b8906"> blog</a> <a href="https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab">github</a></li> <li>Announcing Google Cloud Spanner as a Vault storage backend <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/02/announcing-Google-Cloud-Spanner-as-a-Vault-storage-backend.html"> blog</a></li> <li>How to handle mutating JSON schemas in a streaming pipeline, with Square Enix <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2018/02/how-to-handle-mutating-json-schemas-in-a-streaming-pipeline-with-square-enix"> blog</a></li> <li>FAT* <a href="https://fatconference.org/2018/livestream.html">livestream</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Platform Solutions <a href="https://cloud.google.com/solutions">site</a></li> <li>Tutorials and Solutions <a href="https://cloud.google.com/docs/tutorials">site</a></li> <li>Machine Learning with Financial Time Series Data <a href="https://cloud.google.com/solutions/machine-learning-with-financial-time-series-data"> solution</a></li> <li>Implementing GCP Policies for Customer Use Cases <a href="https://cloud.google.com/solutions/policies/implementing-policies-for-customer-use-cases"> solution</a></li> <li>#87 Customer Engineers with Jonathan Cham <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-87-customer-engineers-with-jonathan-cham/"> podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/">Google Cloud Next</a></li> <li>Solution Architects are hiring! <a href="https://careers.google.com/jobs#t=sq&q=j&li=20&l=false&j=cloud%20solution%20architect&jcoid=7c8c6665-81cf-4e11-8fc9-ec1d6a69120c&jcoid=e43afd0d-d215-45db-a154-5386c9036525"> careers</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>How do I get a Docker image into Minikube without uploading it to an external registry and then downloading it all over again? Is there an easy way to do this locally?</p> <ul> <li>Minikube <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube">github</a></li> <li><code>$ docker save | (eval $(minikube docker-env) && docker load)</code></li> <li>Original references <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/1341#issuecomment-344687279"> github</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23935141/how-to-copy-docker-images-from-one-host-to-another-without-via-repository"> Stack Overflow</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Mark will be at the <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/">Game Developer’s Conference | GDC</a> in March.</p>