Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000
<p>The delightful <a href="https://twitter.com/sramji">Sam Ramji</a> joins <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl">Melanie</a> this week to talk about Google Cloud Platform, Open Source, Distributed Systems and Philosophy and how they are all interrelated.</p> <h5 id="sam-ramji">Sam Ramji</h5> <p>A 20+ year veteran of the Silicon Valley and Seattle technology scenes, <a href="https://twitter.com/sramji">Sam Ramji</a> is VP Product Management for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He was the founding CEO of <a href="https://www.cloudfoundry.org">Cloud Foundry</a> Foundation, was Chief Strategy Officer for <a href="https://apigee.com">Apigee</a> (APIC), designed and led <a href="https://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft’s</a> open source strategy, founded the <a href="https://opensource.com/users/outercurve-foundation">Outercurve Foundation</a>, and drove product strategy for <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/index.html">BEA WebLogic</a> Integration. Previously he built distributed systems and client software at firms including <a href="http://www.broderbund.com">Broderbund</a>, <a href="http://www.fico.com">Fair Isaac</a>, and Ofoto. He is an advisor to multiple companies including <a href="https://www.accenture.com">Accenture</a>, <a href="https://insightengines.com">Insight Engines</a>, and the <a href="http://www.linuxfoundation.org">Linux Foundation</a>, and served on the <a href="https://www.weforum.org">World Economic Forum’s</a> Industrial Internet Working Group. He received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from UCSD in 1994.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>An example escalation policy — CRE life lessons <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/01/an-example-escalation-policy-CRE-life-lessons.html"> blog</a></li> <li>The new Google Arts & Culture, on exhibit now <a href="https://blog.google/topics/arts-culture/the-new-google-arts-culture-on-exhibit/"> blog</a></li> <li>Five Days of Kubernetes 1.9 <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2018/01/five-days-of-kubernetes-19.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Kubernetes Comic <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/kubernetes-comic/">site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>The Case for Learned Index Structures <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208">paper</a></li> <li>CAP Theorem <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem">wikipedia</a></li> <li>Databricks <a href="https://databricks.com">site</a></li> <li>Spinnaker <a href="https://www.spinnaker.io">site</a></li> <li>Tensor Processing Units <a href="https://cloud.google.com/tpu/">site</a></li> <li>38 Special - Hold On Loosely <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtf7R_oVaw">youtube</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>I would like to run a Google Cloud Function every day/week/hour etc - but there is no cron ability in Cloud Functions (yet?). How can I do this now?</p> <ul> <li>Functions Cron <a href="https://github.com/firebase/functions-cron">github</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Melanie is speaking at <a href="https://theaicongress.com/">AI Congress</a> in London Jan 30th and she will be at <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/">FOSDEM</a> in Brussels in Feb.</p> <p>Mark will be at the <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/">Game Developer’s Conference | GDC</a> in March.</p>
