Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/mylesborins">Myles Borins</a> talks with <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> about Node.js from its history, how to contribute, the consensus-seeking governance, and why it’s important to Google Cloud Platform.</p> <p>Node.js is an open-source, JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, and Google is a Platinum Member of the Node.js Foundation.</p> <h5 id="about-myles-borins">About Myles Borins</h5> <p>Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, and maker he works for Google as a developer advocate serving the Node.js ecosystem he graduated with a Master of Music Science and Technology from c.c.r.m.a. a.k.a the center for computer research in music and acoustics</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Reduced GPU prices on GCP and preemptible local SSDs <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/new-lower-prices-for-GPUs-and-preemptible-Local-SSDs.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Skylake processors now available in 7 regions <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/Skylake-processors-now-available-in-seven-regions.html"> blog</a></li> <li>New Episodes of Learn TensorFlow and Deep Learning, without a PhD: <ul> <li>Modern Convolutional Neural Nets <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaL1I2BD_xY&feature=youtu.be">video</a></li> <li>Modern RNN Architectures <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzOzmxCR37I">video</a></li> <li>Deep Reinforcement Leanring <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRKOJHRbXeo">video</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Node.js <a href="https://nodejs.org/en/">site</a></li> <li>Node.js on Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://cloud.google.com/nodejs">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Node School <a href="https://nodeschool.io/">site</a></li> <li>Node.js with Justin Beckwith <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-20-nodejs-with-justin-beckwith/"> podcast</a></li> <li>App Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/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>Kubernetes Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/">doc</a></li> <li>Introduction to Kubernetes: How to Deploy a Node.js Docker App <a href="https://www.sitepoint.com/kubernetes-deploy-node-js-docker-app/">site</a></li> <li>Socket.io <a href="https://socket.io/docs/">site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>How do you give public postmordems?</p> <ul> <li>Fearless shared postmortems - CRE life lessons <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/fearless-shared-postmortems-CRE-life-lessons.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Mark will be Montreal in December to speak at <a href="http://www.migs17.com/en/home/">Montreal International Games Summit</a>.<br /> Melanie will be at SOCML (Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning) end of this week and <a href="https://nips.cc/">NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems)</a> in Long Beach next week.</p>
