Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/waynezim">Dan McGrath</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexDufetel">Alex Dufetel</a> join <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> in the studio this week to discuss Cloud Firestore, the brand new, fully-managed NoSQL document database for mobile and web app development.</p> <h5 id="about-dan-mcgrath">About Dan McGrath</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/waynezim">Dan McGrath</a> is the Product Manager for Cloud working on databases such as Cloud Firestore. Dan has spent the last decade working in product & engineering for large scale database systems. He has a background in banking software, databases, and information security.</p> <h5 id="about-alex-dufetel">About Alex Dufetel</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/AlexDufetel">Alex Dufetel</a> is a Product Manager for the Firebase team at Google, working on Backend-as-Service products such as the Realtime Database and Cloud Firestore. Alex was previously Director of Products at Fuze, a video conferencing and enterprise communications provider and, before that, a co-founder of LiveMinutes, a real-time team collaboration app.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Extending per second billing in Google Cloud <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/extending-per-second-billing-in-google.html"> blog</a></li> <li>PHP 7.1 for Google App Engine is generally available <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/php-71-for-google-app-engine-is.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Java 8 on App Engine standard environment is now generally available <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/Java-8-on-App-Engine-Standard-environment-is-now-generally-available.html"> blog</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/migrating-to-java8"> migration</a></li> <li>Kubernetes 1.8: Security, Workloads and Feature Depth <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/09/kubernetes-18-security-workloads-and.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Google Container Engine - Kubernetes 1.8 takes advantage of the cloud built for containers <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/google-container-engine-kubernetes-18.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Announcing Cloud IoT Core public beta <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-Cloud-IoT-Core-public-beta.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Cloud Firestore <a href="https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/10/introducing-cloud-firestore.html"> announcement</a> <a href="https://firebase.google.com/products/firestore/">site</a> <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/">docs</a></li> <li>Cloud Firestore server sdks <a href="https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Extend Cloud Firestore with Cloud Functions <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/extend-with-functions">docs</a></li> <li>Cloud Firestore for Realtime Database Developers <a href="https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/10/cloud-firestore-for-rtdb-developers.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Firestore Discuss <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-cloud-firestore-discuss"> google-group</a></li> <li>Firestore Realtime Database <a href="https://firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database/">site</a> <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/">docs</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://firebase.google.com/products/firestore/"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/icons/firestore.png" style="margin: auto;" /></a></div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>How do I import/export data from my Cloud Datastore?</p> <ul> <li>Exporting and Importing Entities <a href="https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/export-import-entities">docs</a></li> <li>Scheduling an Export <a href="https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/schedule-export">docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Francesc just released a new <a href="http://justforfunc.com">#justforfunc</a> and he’ll be presenting at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Go-London-User-Group/events/243800263/">Go Meetup London</a>, <a href="https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-eu">Velocity London</a>, <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/Summit-Paris-2017.html">Google Cloud Summit Paris</a> and <a href="https://devfest.gdgnantes.com/">Devfest Nantes</a></p> <p>He is heading to Australia for <a href="http://gdgmelbourne.com/">GDG Devfest Melbourne</a> and <a href="http://gcap.com.au/">Game Connect Asia Pacific</a> and will be hanging out at <a href="https://unite.unity.com/2017/melbourne">Unite Melbourne</a> and <a href="http://aus.paxsite.com/">PAX Australia</a>.</p>
