Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p>Our beloved teammate Paul Newson is back from his SRE rotation to tell us about all the lessons that he learned during all these months. Your co-hosts, <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a>, are as always here to ask all the burning questions.</p> <h5 id="about-paul">About Paul</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/newsons_nybbles">Paul</a> is an SRE Advocate at Google. As part of Google’s Cloud developer relations team, he helps our customers understand reliability best practices based on his experiences working as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on Google Compute Engine and as a Software Engineer on Google Cloud Storage.</p> <p>Before joining Google, he cofounded a tiny game technology startup, sold it to Microsoft, where he then worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza Motorsport, before spending some time working on interesting machine learning problems in Microsoft Research.</p> <p>Outside of work he enjoys rock climbing, motorcycling, and other activities that demand complete focus.</p> <p>He doesn’t often post on social media, but when he does, he does it at <a href="https://twitter.com/newsons_nybbles">@newsons_nybbles</a>.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/guests/PaulNewson.jpg" style="width: 200px; border-radius: 100%;" /></div> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/01/fission-serverless-functions-as-service-for-kubernetes.html"> Kubernetes blog</a></li> <li>CRE Life Lessons <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/search/label/CRE">blog post series</a></li> <li>The SRE book is now free! <a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html">read it online</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <p>More episodes with Paul Newson:</p> <ul> <li>Storage with Paul Newson <a href="https://gcppodcast.com/post/episode-14-storage-with-paul-newson/">episode 14</a></li> <li>Site Reliability Engineering <a href="https://gcppodcast.com/post/episode-38-site-reliability-engineering-with-paul-newson/"> episode 38</a></li> </ul> <p>More links:</p> <ul> <li>The SRE book <a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html">home page</a></li> <li>SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, oh my - CRE life lessons <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/01/availability-part-deux--CRE-life-lessons.html"> blog post</a></li> <li>A Google SRE explores GitHub reliability with BigQuery <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/10/a-google-sre-explores-github-reliability-with-bigquery"> blog post</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 post</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>The question today comes from <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41960664/in-app-engine-flexible-environment-how-can-i-see-which-version-of-a-service-is"> StackOverflow</a>.</p> <p>How can I see which version of an App Engine service is the default?</p> <ul> <li>app.services/get <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/admin-api/reference/rest/v1/apps.services/get"> docs</a></li> <li>Microservices Architecture on Google App Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/microservices-on-app-engine"> 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 is doing a European tour, after speaking at <a href="https://golab.io">golab</a> and <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Golang-Barcelona/events/237049935/">GolangBCN</a> he’s currently in Paris and on his way to the Go Devroom at <a href="https://fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a>. A bit later he’ll also be at <a href="http://www.gophercon.in">Gophercon India</a>.</p>
