Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> is back right on time to interview <a href="http://twitter.com/alanwritescode">Alan Fregtman</a>, a pipeline developer working at <a href="http://www.rodeofx.com/en/home">Rodeo FX</a>. Alan will explain how Google Cloud Platform enables Rodeo FX artist to create amazing visual effects faster.</p> <p>Rodeo FX is very well known for their work on Game of Thrones, Deadpool, and many others. I recommend watching this demo video to get an idea of their talent.</p> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/175620233">Game Of Thrones - Season 6 - VFX Breakdown</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/rodeofx">Rodeo FX</a>.</p> <h5 id="about-alan">About Alan</h5> <p>In the industry for 8 years ranging from commercials work to tv series and now film, <a href="http://twitter.com/alanwritescode">Alan Fregtman</a> (also on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4729415/">imdb</a>) has been holding technical roles throughout his career, beginning as a character rigger and currently a pipeline developer at Rodeo FX in Montreal, where he has been for the last 4 years. He specializes in developing tools for the CG side of the film visual effects pipeline, including Rodeo’s integration of the Google Cloud Platform for use in cloud rendering.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are now generally available</li> <li>Improved performance, security and platform support for databases (Low-latency for Google Cloud Storage Nearline storage)</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/why-Google-Cloud-Platform-is-ready-for-your-enterprise-database-workloads.html"> Announcement</a></p> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.rodeofx.com/en/home">Rodeo FX</a> has worked on many shows: <a href="https://vimeo.com/175620233">demo</a></li> <li>GCE Custom Machine Types to adapt to the movie needs <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types#custom_machine_types"> docs</a></li> <li>Preemptible VM instancesc for their reduced cost <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible">docs</a></li> <li>Salt Stack to keep all machines configured <a href="https://saltstack.com/">docs</a></li> <li>FDT: Fast Data Transfer for really fast transfer of … data <a href="http://monalisa.cern.ch/FDT/">docs</a></li> <li>Creating a Google Cloud VPN <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/vpn/creating-vpns">docs</a></li> <li>GlusterFS to manage their in-house file system <a href="https://www.gluster.org">docs</a></li> </ul> <p>For more information:</p> <ul> <li>How GCP helps Rodeo FX extending their rendering capacity, presented by Jordan Soles <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPg4qYMhDWo">YouTube</a></li> <li>Videos by Rodeo FX on <a href="https://vimeo.com/rodeofx/videos">vimeo</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>How to create a Managed Instance Group from a VM?</p> <ol> <li>Delete your instance keeping your disk</li> <li>Create a custom image from your disk <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/create-delete-deprecate-private-images"> docs</a></li> <li>Create a new Instance Template with them image</li> <li>Create an Managed Instance Group with the template</li> </ol> <p>What if you can’t delete the instance?</p> <ol> <li>Create a snapshot from your running disk <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/create-snapshots">docs</a></li> <li>Create a new disk from the snapshot</li> <li>Go to step [2] above</li> </ol>
