Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-will-30576a1/">Michael Will</a>, Director of Technical Operations at <a href="http://www.guardiankingdoms.com/">Phoenix One Games</a>, joins your co-hosts <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> today to tell us about their migration from their own hardware to the cloud, how they did it, and what they learned from it.</p> <h5 id="about-michael-will">About Michael Will</h5> <p>Michael is experienced in the design and deployment of high performance compute clusters both from hardware and software aspect with a parallel execution and solution architecture focus from IBM 390 running Linux to Penguin Computing commodity hardware for 10+ years, applying in the last 5 years to his passion for real time strategy gaming at Phoenix Age / Kabam / Phoenix One Games.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine <a href="https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444?mcubz=0"> New York Times blog</a></li> <li>Introducing Network Service Tiers: Your cloud network, your way <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/introducing-Network-Service-Tiers-your-cloud-network-your-way.html"> GCP blog</a></li> <li>Titan in depth: Security in plaintext <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/Titan-in-depth-security-in-plaintext.html"> GCP blog</a> <ul> <li>Final Day at Cloud Next <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-67-final-day-at-cloud-next/"> gcppodcast 67</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Google Compute Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/">docs</a></li> <li>Gaming Solutions on Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://cloud.google.com/solutions/gaming/">docs</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Storage <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/">docs</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.couchbase.com">Couchbase</a></li> <li>Google Cloud and Couchbase Server: Zero to Millions of Operations in No Time <a href="https://www.couchbase.com/resources/presentations/google-cloud-and-couchbase-server-zero-to-millions-of-operations-in-no-time.html"> couchbase.com</a></li> <li>VERTICA database <a href="https://www.vertica.com/">info</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.phoenixonegames.com/"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/phoenixone.png" style="margin: auto; width: 25%;" /></a> <p>Phoenix One Games</p> </div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>How to secure an App Engine application?</p> <ul> <li>App Engine login (required/admin in your <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/config/appref"> app.yaml</a>), only Google accounts.</li> <li>OAuth2: <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/">Firebase Authentication</a> <a href="https://auth0.com/">Auth0</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/app-engine-quickstart">Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy</a></li> <li><a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/introducing-App-Engine-firewall-an-easy-way-to-control-access-to-your-app.html"> App Engine firewall</a> (beta)</li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Francesc just released another <a href="http://justforfunc.com">justforfunc</a> episode on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg603e9C-Vg">Go Type Aliases</a>, and will be presenting at <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/Summit-Sydney-2017.html">Google Cloud Summit in Sydney</a> in September.</p> <p>Mark is entering crazy season, currently speaking at <a href="http://dev.paxsite.com/">Pax Dev</a> and then attending <a href="http://west.paxsite.com/">Pax West</a> right after. He’ll then be speaking at <a href="http://www.gameaconvegas.com/">Gameacon</a> and <a href="http://austingamecon.com/">Austin Game Conference</a> and attending <a href="https://www.thestrangeloop.com/">Strangeloop</a> once he’s done with all that.</p>
