Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p>This week brings us back to an interview that we did while at <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/">Cloud Next</a> last week. <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> talk to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/williambonnell/">William Bonnell</a>, Senior Director of SRE at <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/">The Home Depot</a> all about SRE culture, and the CRE team as well.</p> <h5 id="about-william-bonnell">About William Bonnell</h5> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/williambonnell/">William Bonnell</a> is Senior Director of Site Reliability Engineering at <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/">The Home Depot</a> - managing the e-commerce and order management systems, support millions of customers per day!</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>100 announcements (!) from Google Cloud Next ‘17 <a href="https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/100-announcements-google-cloud-next-17/"> blog</a> <ul> <li>Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) for Google Cloud Platform (Beta) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/iap">site</a></li> <li>Cloud.google.com/community <a href="https://cloud.google.com/community/">site</a></li> <li>Cloud SQL for Postgre SQL (Beta) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/sql/">site</a></li> <li>64 Core machines + more memory <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/Google-Cloud-Platform-your-Next-home-in-the-cloud.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>A new issue tracker for Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/a-new-issue-tracker-for-Google-Cloud-Platformud.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Happy Pi Day! <a href="https://pi.delivery/">site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interviews">Interviews</h5> <ul> <li><sup>24</sup>⁄<sub>7</sub> resiliency (Google Cloud Next ‘17) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sHI6U92KvQ">youtube</a></li> <li>Smart, Secure, and Modern app delivery for enterprises and cloud-natives (Google Cloud Next ‘17) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7U4oH1XnPw">youtube</a></li> <li>Building Microservices <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033158.do">book</a></li> <li>Production-Ready Microservices <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920053675.do">book</a></li> <li>Site Reliability Engineering <a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html">book</a></li> <li>Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-a-new-era-of-customer-support-Google-Customer-Reliability-Engineering.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Managed Instance Groups <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/creating-groups-of-managed-instances"> docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>Why should I be using Cloud Spanner, rather than Cloud SQL? (Thanks AJ!)</p> <ul> <li>What’s the difference between Google Cloud Spanner and Cloud SQL? <a href="https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-Google-Cloud-Spanner-and-Cloud-SQL/answer/Zdenko-Hrcek"> quora</a></li> <li>Cloud Spanner <a href="https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Cloud Spanner Pricing <a href="https://cloud.google.com/spanner/pricing">docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Mark will be heading to <a href="https://www.meetup.com/PolyglotVancouver/events/238312555/">Polyglot Vancouver Meetup</a> in April, and then on to <a href="http://ecgconf.com/">East Coast Games Conference</a> and <a href="http://vectorconf.com/">Vector</a></p> <p>Francesc will be presenting at <a href="http://www.bagevent.com/event/357764">Gophercon China</a> in April.</p>
