Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p>In the last episode for 2016, <a href="https://twitter.com/neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> look at all their favourite moments from this year, including their favourite episodes, guests and Cool Things of the Week.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Google partners with Improbable to support next generation of video games <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/12/google-partners-with-improbable-to.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Announcing new Google Cloud Client Libraries for four key services <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/12/announcing-new-google-cloud-client.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Kubernetes 1.5: Supporting Production Workloads <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/12/kubernetes-1.5-supporting-production-workloads.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="favourite-episodes">Favourite Episodes</h5> <h6 id="top-downloaded-episodes">Top Downloaded Episodes</h6> <ul> <li>#46: Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-46-borg-and-k8s-with-john-wilkes/"> gcppodcast.com</a></li> <li>#44: Cloud Endpoints with Dan Ciruli and Sepehr Ebrahimzadeh <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-44-cloud-endpoints-with-dan-and-sep/"> gcppodcast.com</a></li> <li>#31: TensorFlow with Eli Bixby <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-31-tensorflow-with-eli-bixby/"> gcppodcast.com</a></li> <li>#37: GKE 1.3 with Carter Morgan <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-37-gke-1-3-with-carter-morgan/"> gcppodcast.com</a></li> <li>#43: gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-43-grpc-with-brandon-philips/"> gcppodcast.com</a></li> </ul> <h6 id="mark-s-favourites">Mark’s Favourites</h6> <ul> <li>#19: GCP Next Speakers <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-19-gcp-next/">gcppodcast.com</a></li> <li>#23: Humble Bundle with Andy Oxfeld <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-23-humble-bundle-with-andy-oxfeld/"> gcppodcast.com</a></li> <li>#52: Google Developer Experts Summit <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-52-gde-summit/">gcppodcast.com</a></li> </ul> <h6 id="francesc-s-favourites">Francesc’s Favourites</h6> <ul> <li>#25: Go on the Cloud with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-25-go-with-andrew-and-chris/"> gcppodcast.com</a></li> <li>#38: Site Reliability Engineering with Paul Newson <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-38-site-reliability-engineering-with-paul-newson/"> gcppodcast.com</a></li> <li>#43: gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-43-grpc-with-brandon-philips/"> gcppodcast.com</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="favourite-cool-things-of-the-week">Favourite Cool Things of the Week</h5> <h6 id="francesc-s-favourites-1">Francesc’s Favourites</h6> <p>Spotify is now on Google Cloud Platform:</p> <ul> <li>Spotify chooses Google Cloud Platform to power data infrastructure <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/02/Spotify-chooses-Google-Cloud-Platform-to-power-data-infrastructure.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Announcing Spotify Infrastructure’s Googley Future <a href="https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-infrastructures-googley-future/"> blog</a></li> <li>Google’s BigQuery is <em>da bomb</em> - I can start with 2.2Billion ‘things’ and compute/summarize down to 20K in < 1 min. <a href="https://twitter.com/plamere/status/702168809445134336">tweet</a></li> </ul> <p>Kubernetes and Google Container Engine</p> <ul> <li>Kubernetes 1.3 on tap for Google Container Engine <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/Kubernetes-1.3-on-tap-for-Google-Container-Engine.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Google Container Engine now on Kubernetes 1.4 <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-Container-Engine-now-on-Kubernetes-1.4.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/bringing-Pokemon-GO-to-life-on-Google-Cloud.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <p>Education:</p> <ul> <li>CP100A: Google Cloud Platform Foundations <a href="https://cloud.google.com/training/courses">courses</a></li> <li>New Google Cloud Platform Education Grants offer free credits to students <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/06/new-Google-Cloud-Platform-Education-Grants-offer-free-credits-to-students.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Kubernetes class on Udacity <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/up-your-DevOps-chops-with-this-online-Kubernetes-class.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h6 id="mark-s-favourites-1">Mark’s Favourites</h6> <p>Multiple General Availabilities</p> <ul> <li>Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are now generally available <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/why-Google-Cloud-Platform-is-ready-for-your-enterprise-database-workloads.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Cloud Router <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/cloudrouter">docs</a></li> <li>Cloud CDN <a href="https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Identity and Access Management (IAM) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/">docs</a></li> </ul> <p>Machine Learning and Big Data</p> <ul> <li>How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/how-a-japanese-cucumber-farmer-is-using-deep-learning-and-tensorflow"> blog</a></li> <li>Decoding the micro-moments of baseball: can you hear the game through data? <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/decoding-the-micro-moments-of-baseball-can-you-hear-the-game-through-data.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Introducing Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API open beta and our West Coast region expansion <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/the-latest-for-Cloud-customers-machine-learning-and-west-coast-expansion.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Powering geospatial analysis: public geo datasets now on Google Cloud <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/powering-geospatial-analysis-public-geo-datasets-now-on-Google-Cloud.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Introducing the Open Images Dataset <a href="https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-open-images-dataset.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <p>Google Cloud Platform Community Slack</p> <ul> <li>Join the community <a href="https://bit.ly/gcp-slack">invite</a></li> </ul> <p>We’ll be back on January 18th, 2017 - See you all then!</p>
