Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p>Following the saga of episodes on programming languages today your co-hosts, <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a>, have the honor to talk to Jon Wayne Parrott, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google Cloud Platform, about Python on the cloud.</p> <h5 id="about-jon-wayne">About Jon Wayne</h5> <p>Jon Wayne focuses on the Python developer experience for Google Cloud Platform. He’s an active contributor to multiple open-source Python projects.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/Google-Cloud-Platform-is-the-first-cloud-provider-to-offer-Intel-Skylake.html"> blog</a></li> <li>GPUs are now available for Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/GPUs-are-now-available-for-Google-Compute-Engine-and-Cloud-Machine-Learning.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Developer Advocates offer up their favorite Google Cloud NEXT 17 sessions <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/developer-advocates-offer-up-their-favorite-Google-Cloud-NEXT-17-sessions.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interviews">Interviews</h5> <ul> <li>Python on Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://cloud.google.com/python">cloud.google.com/python</a></li> <li>Python on App Engine Standard Environment <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python">docs</a></li> <li>Python on App Engine Flexible Environment <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python">docs</a></li> <li>A skeleton for creating Python applications using the Flask framework on App Engine <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-flask-skeleton">GitHub</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Can I send emails as part of a Cloud Datastore transaction? No, but you can use Task Queues <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/datastore/transactions"> docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Mark is today at <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/">GDC</a> and afterwards he’ll be speaking at <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/schedule#target=building-massive-online-worlds-with-spatialos-and-google-cloud-platform-0cb0ec52-b735-4403-9fc5-071f1759dd1c"> Cloud NEXT</a>, both in San Francisco.</p> <p>Francesc is coming back from <a href="http://www.gophercon.in">Gophercon India</a> and on his way to <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/schedule#target=google-cloud-endpoints-serving-your-api-to-the-world-8eaeb271-f0ea-4638-af94-16c0b2b80bf6"> Cloud NEXT</a>.</p>
