Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000
<p>In this episode, Google Play Marketing is the customer of Google Cloud Platform. <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl">Melanie</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> chat with Dom Elliott (Google Play) and <a href="https://twitter.com/stewartbryson">Stewart Bryson</a> (Red Pill Analytics) about how they use our big data processing and visualisation tools to introspect what is happening in the Google play ecosystem.</p> <h5 id="dom-elliott">Dom Elliott</h5> <p>Dom Elliott leads global developer marketing communications for Google Play. His goal is to help Android app and game developers improve their app quality and business performance on Google Play, by raising awareness and understanding of features that can help them find success.</p> <h5 id="stewart-bryson">Stewart Bryson</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/stewartbryson">Stewart Bryson</a> is the Owner & Co-founder of Red Pill Analytics, a products and services company specializing in Cloud Analytics delivery. Red Pill is 4 years old and has about 30 employees in the US, UK and Brazil. We work with customers to accelerate their use of the public cloud for analytics, including migrating current on-premises workloads. Red Pill Analytics was engaged by Google Play to build the digital channel ingestion processes, as well as build all the Data Studio content for analyzing those channels.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Easy distributed training with TensorFlow using tf.estimator.train_and_evaluate on Cloud ML Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/easy-distributed-training-with-tensorflow-using-tfestimatortrain-and-evaluate-on-cloud-ml-engine"> blog</a></li> <li>CI/CD with Less Fluff & More Awesome <a href="https://medium.com/@riknauta/ci-cd-with-less-fluff-more-awesome-28af61288a03"> blog</a></li> <li>96 vCPU Compute Engine instances are now generally available <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/02/96-vCPU-Compute-Engine-instances-are-now-generally-available.html"> announcement</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/">site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Google Play <a href="https://play.google.com">site</a></li> <li>Google Data Studio <a href="https://cloud.google.com/data-studio/">site</a> <a href="https://support.google.com/360suite/datastudio/?hl=en#topic=6267740"> docs</a></li> <li>Adding charts to Data Studio <a href="https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/6291062?hl=en">docs</a></li> <li>Google BigQuery Data Transfer Service <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/transfer/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/transfer-service-overview">docs</a></li> <li>Google App Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Cloud Cloud PubSub <a href="https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Cloud Functions <a href="https://cloud.google.com/functions/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Pub/Sub Triggers <a href="https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/calling/pubsub">docs</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/tutorials/pubsub">tutorial</a></li> <li>Cloud Natural Language <a href="https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/">docs</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://play.google.com"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/play.png" style="margin: auto;" /></a> <p style="font-size: 0.8em;">Google Play</p> </div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>If you want to be able to unit test your integrations with Kubernetes with client-go, how can you mock what happens inside the cluster in your unit tests?</p> <ul> <li>fake.Clientset <a href="https://godoc.org/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/fake#Clientset">godoc</a> <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go/tree/master/rest/fake">code</a> <a href="https://github.com/markmandel/paddle-soccer/blob/master/server/nodescaler/scaler_test.go#L92-L97"> example</a></li> <li>testing.Fake <a href="https://godoc.org/k8s.io/client-go/testing#Fake">godoc</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="https://fatconference.org/">Fat*</a> in New York very shortly!</p> <p>Mark will be at the <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/">Game Developer’s Conference | GDC</a> in March.</p>