Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p>Fresh from <a href="https://events.google.com/io/">Google I/O</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> are joined by the co-founders of <a href="https://firebase.google.com/">Firebase</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesTamplin">James Tamplin</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/startupandrew">Andrew Lee</a> to let us in on all the new and awesome things that were announced!</p> <h5 id="about-james-tamplin">About James Tamplin</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/JamesTamplin">James Tamplin</a> is a co-founder of Firebase, and served as CEO until joining Google. He is now a Group Product Manager working on Firebase. James has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a stage actor in New York, an improv comic, and has worked on two previous startups.</p> <h5 id="about-andrew-lee">About Andrew Lee</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/startupandrew">Andrew</a> co-founded Firebase in 2011 and served as CTO until Firebase joined Google. He is now an engineering lead for Firebase, focusing on infrastructure products including the Realtime Database, Hosting, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Storage. Andrew lives and works in San Francisco.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Build and train machine learning models on our new Google Cloud TPUs <a href="https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-offer-tpus-machine-learning/"> announcement</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/tpu/">product</a> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04760">research</a></li> <li>Introducing Google Cloud IoT Core: for securely connecting and managing IoT devices at scale <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/introducing-Google-Cloud-IoT-Core-for-securely-connecting-and-managing-IoT-devices-at-scale.html"> announcement</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/iot-core/">product</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li><a href="https://firebase.google.com/">Firebase</a></li> <li>What’s new from Firebase at Google I/O 2017 <a href="https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/05/whats-new-from-firebase-at-google-io.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Previous episodes on Firebase <ul> <li><a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-29-the-new-firebase-with-abe-haskins-and-doug-stevenson/"> Episode #29</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-13-firebase-with-sara-and-vikrum/"> Episode #13</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Firebase Phone Authentication <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/web/phone-auth">web</a> <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/android/phone-auth">android</a> <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/ios/phone-auth">ios</a></li> <li>Firebase Hosting and Cloud Functions <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/functions">docs</a></li> <li>Build Modern Apps with Firebase and Google Cloud Platform (Google I/O ‘17) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIe0Fn9OtnY">youtube</a></li> <li>Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs <a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/05/open-sourcing-firebase-sdks.html"> announcement</a> <a href="https://github.com/firebase/">github</a></li> <li>Firebase performance monitoring <a href="https://firebase.google.com/products/performance/">site</a> <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/perf-mon/">docs</a></li> <li>Firebase SDKs for <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/unity/setup">Unity</a> and <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/cpp/setup">C++</a></li> <li>Firebase Test Lab for Games <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/test-lab/game-loop">docs</a></li> <li>Google Analytics for Firebase <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/">docs</a></li> <li>Android Instance Apps <a href="https://developer.android.com/topic/instant-apps/index.html">site</a></li> <li>Try Google BigQuery today: Now with 10GB of free storage <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/05/try-google-bigquery-today-now-with-10gb-of-free-storage"> announcement</a></li> <li>Firebase Analytics Stream and Debug View <a href="https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/03/realtime-analytics-for-everyone.html"> announcement</a> <a href="https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/7229836?hl=en">stream</a> <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/debugview">debug</a></li> <li>Firebase at Google I/O 2017 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl-K7zZEsYLma7gxYxtEwO1rsAPn7wkV_"> presentations</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://firebase.google.com/"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/icons/firebase.png" style="margin: auto;" /></a></div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>How do I give one of my Google Cloud Platform Project’s to another person?</p> <ul> <li>Understanding Roles in IAM <a href="https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles">docs</a></li> <li>Create, modify, or close your billing account <a href="https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6288653?hl=en">help</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Francesc will be teaching at <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/2017-OnBoard-BuenosAires.html">Onboard Buenos Aires</a> and running a workshop at <a href="https://qconnewyork.com/">QCon New York</a></p> <p>Mark is going on vacation for a few weeks - but don’t worry, he’ll still be on the podcast!</p>