Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/duhroach">Colt McAnalis</a> joins the podcast this week to talk about his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqK5zce0-fd1Vam7oPY-s_8X"> Performance Atlas</a> series where he dives into how to make Google Cloud applications faster and cheaper. In his words, his job is to help get someone promoted.</p> <h5 id="about-colt-mcanlis">About Colt McAnlis</h5> <p>Colt McAnlis is a Developer Advocate at Google focusing on performance & compression. Before that, he was a graphics programmer in the games industry working at Blizzard, Microsoft (Ensemble), and Petroglyph. He’s been an Adjunct Professor at SMU Guildhall, a UDACITY instructor (twice), and a Book Author, (twice). When he’s not working with developers, Colt spends his time preparing for an invasion of giant ants from outer space.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>With Multi-Region Support in Cloud Spanner, have your cake and eat it too <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/with-Multi-Region-support-in-Cloud-Spanner-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too.html"> blog</a></li> <li>The State of Data Science & Machine Learning by Kaggle <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017">blog</a> and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/linear-digressions/kaggle-survey-produced">podcast</a></li> <li>Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!) <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/introducing-Certified-Kubernetes-and-Google-Kubernetes-Engine.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Performance Atlas <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqK5zce0-fd1Vam7oPY-s_8X"> series</a></li> <li>Profiling App Engine (Standard) Boot Time <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuVpxOIA8Wc">video</a></li> <li>TCP BBR <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/TCP-BBR-congestion-control-comes-to-GCP-your-Internet-just-got-faster.html"> site</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>Understanding Compression <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920052036.do">book</a></li> <li>Google SRE <a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/book/index.html">book</a></li> <li>TCP/IP Illustrated <a href="https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Protocols-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321336313/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510769486&sr=8-1&keywords=tcp+illustrated"> book</a></li> <li>Ilya Grigorik <a href="https://www.igvita.com/">site</a></li> <li>Perf Like a Pirate III <a href="https://www.meetup.com/sfhtml5/events/238958595/">site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>What are the differences between sustained and committed use discounts?</p> <ul> <li>Sustained Use Discounts <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discounts">docs</a></li> <li>Committed Use Discounts <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-committed-use-discounts"> docs</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>.</p>
