Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/newsons_nybbles">Paul Newson</a> is back to the podcast to tell us about his experience as an SRE, or Site Reliability Engineer. They keep Google and Google Cloud running and he explains to your cohosts <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/neurotic">Mark</a> how they make that happen.</p> <h5 id="about-paul">About Paul</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/newsons_nybbles">Paul</a> currently is going through a six month rotation as a Software Reliability Engineer, previously he focused on helping developers harness the power of Google Cloud Platform to solve their big data problems. Before that, he was an engineer on Google Cloud Storage.</p> <p>Before joining Google, Paul founded a startup which was acquired by Microsoft, where he worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza Motorsport, before spending time working on machine learning problems at Microsoft Research.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <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> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>What is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’? <a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/interview/ben-treynor.html">Interview</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/sre-land.png" width="50%" /></div> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Platform opens its first West Coast region <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/20/google-cloud-platform-opens-its-oregon-region-to-better-serve-the-west-coast/"> TechCrunch</a></li> <li>Site Reliability Engineering <a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html">Book</a></li> <li>Go Programming Language <a href="https://golang.org">Homepage</a></li> <li>Keys to SRE - SREcon14 <a href="https://youtu.be/n4Wf14e2jxQ">YouTube</a></li> <li>Adventures in SRE-land: Welcome to Google Mission Control <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/adventures-in-SRE-land-welcome-to-Google-Mission-Control.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <ul> <li>How Kubernetes Updates Work on GKE <a href="http://terrenceryan.com/blog/index.php/how-kubernetes-updates-work-on-container-engine/"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="were-will-we-be">Were will we be?</h5> <ul> <li>Francesc is working on a video series <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64wiCrrxh4Jisi7OcCJIUpguV_f5jGnZ"> justforfunc</a></li> <li>Mark will be at <a href="http://dev.paxsite.com/">PAX DEV</a> in Seattle and then <a href="http://www.thestrangeloop.com/">Strange Loop</a> in St Louis</li> </ul>
