Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000
<p>We return once again to Continuous Integration tooling, this time with a visual spin. <a href="https://twitter.com/mikefotinakis">Mike Fotinakis</a> joins <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl">Melanie</a> to discuss how they use Google Cloud Platform to develop <a href="https://percy.io">Percy</a>, the platform for continuous visual reviews for web apps.</p> <h5 id="mike-fotinakis">Mike Fotinakis</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/mikefotinakis">Mike</a> is Co-Founder and CEO of Percy, where he is working on problems at the intersection of design, development, and deployment. Mike has previously worked as an engineer at companies including Google, Science Exchange, and AltSchool, and is now enjoying building his first company from the ground up. Sometimes, he even enjoys things that don’t involve computers at all, including rock climbing, coffee, classical singing, and scuba diving.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>OpenCensus: A Stats Collection and Distributed Tracing Framework <a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/01/opencensus.html">blog</a> <a href="https://medium.com/google-cloud/opencensus-and-prometheus-66812a7503f"> medium</a></li> <li>London Zoo trials facial recognition technology to help track elephants in the wild <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/front/london-zoo-trials-facial-recognition-technology-to-help-track-elephants-in-the-wild-a3747501.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Cloud Dataflow and the Tram Challenge <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4z8xJlTU8c">youtube</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Percy <a href="https://percy.io">site</a> <a href="https://percy.io/docs">docs</a></li> <li>Google Kubernetes Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Storage <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/overview">docs</a></li> <li>Google Cloud SQL <a href="https://cloud.google.com/sql/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Redis Labs Cloud <a href="https://redislabs.com/products/redis-cloud/">site</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/">site</a></li> <li>Ember Conf <a href="https://emberconf.com/">site</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://percy.io"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/percy.png" style="margin: auto;" /></a> <p style="font-size: 0.8em;">Percy.io</p> </div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>I would love a weekly roundup of news about Google Cloud Platform - where can I get one?</p> <ul> <li>This week in GCP <a href="https://medium.com/google-cloud/weekly/home">medium</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://fosdem.org/2018/">FOSDEM</a> in Brussels this weekend.</p> <p>Mark will be at the <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/">Game Developer’s Conference | GDC</a> in March.</p>
