Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p>On the heels of the Cloud <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/introducing-Cloud-Spanner-a-global-database-service-for-mission-critical-applications.html"> Spanner</a> launch, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDeepti">Deepti Srivastava</a> joins your hosts <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> on this week’s podcast to talk all about this globally distributed, horizontally scalable, relational database that also provides global consistency and ACID transactions!</p> <h5 id="about-deepti">About Deepti</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/TheDeepti">Deepti Srivastava</a> is passionate about technology and its ability to be a positive change enabler. As Product Manager for <a href="https://cloud.google.com/spanner/">Cloud Spanner</a>, on Google’s Cloud Platform, Srivastava works on best in class Cloud Databases and Storage technologies. Srivastava is an enthusiastic member of Women@Google and a passionate advocate of STEM education, especially for girls. She also enjoys dancing, snowboarding and all things fashion.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Each Google Cloud Product described in 4 words or less <a href="https://twitter.com/gregsramblings/status/832223967096090624">tweet</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yf4hTH6J7qLiP5TLtykqWwJpj-XS3DNObchMdeDVJlE/edit"> doc</a></li> <li>Google Cloud and YouTube-8M Challenge <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/02/google-cloud-and-youtube-8m-challenge-predict-youtube-video-tags-for-a-chance-to-win-up-to-30k"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Cloud Spanner <a href="https://cloud.google.com/spanner/">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/introducing-Cloud-Spanner-a-global-database-service-for-mission-critical-applications.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/inside-Cloud-Spanner-and-the-CAP-Theorem.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Quizlet Tests Cloud Spanner — The Most Sophisticated Cloud Database <a href="https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner">blog</a></li> <li>Don’t Give Up on Serializability Just Yet • Neha Nerula <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utl3RyJE5SI">youtube</a></li> <li>CAP Theorom <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem">wikipedia</a></li> <li>Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database <a href="https://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html">white paper</a></li> <li>Spanner, TrueTime and the CAP Theorem <a href="https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45855.html">white paper</a></li> <li>Cloud Next: Cloud Spanner 101: Google’s mission-critical relational database <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/schedule#target=cloud-spanner-101-googles-mission-critical-relational-database-c06ae372-7b21-4e2c-b3cd-ca6625e87aa9"> schedule</a></li> <li>Cloud Next: Cloud Spanner 201: getting the most out of Cloud Spanner <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/schedule#target=cloud-spanner-201-getting-the-most-out-of-cloud-spanner-4cba186f-e62e-4d11-8073-a84cb0f75936"> schedule</a></li> <li>Ben Sigelman will present Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYV6_OaZeEs">youtube</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/spanner.png" style="margin: auto;" /> <p><small>Spanner: No-Compromise Relational Database Service</small></p> </div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>How do I run a mail server on the cloud?</p> <ul> <li>Sending Mail from a Virtual Machine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/">docs</a></li> <li>Sending Email with SendGrid <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-sendgrid"> docs</a></li> <li>Sending Email with Mailgun <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-mailgun"> docs</a></li> <li>Sending Email with Mailjet <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-mailjet"> docs</a></li> <li>SMTP relay: Route outgoing non-Gmail messages through Google <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/2956491">docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="were-will-we-be">Were will we be?</h5> <p>Mark will be 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 will be at <a href="http://www.gophercon.in">Gophercon India</a>, at <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>, and then <a href="http://gopherchina.org/">Gopher China</a>.</p>
