Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p>In the fifteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts <a href="http://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/neurotic">Mark</a> interview <a href="https://twitter.com/varungyan">Varun Talwar</a>. Varun is a product manager in charge of gRPC, an open source project created at Google that helps you build distributed systems like we do internally at Google.</p> <h5 id="about-varun">About Varun</h5> <p>Varun is a product manager in Google Cloud team and has recently taken on gRPC. Prior to this he was responsible for <a href="https://cloud.google.com/launcher/">Google Cloud Launcher</a>, a launchpad to easily spin up popular software images on Google Compute Engine. He is a long time Googler who has previously worked on YouTube, Maps and Adsense.</p> <p>Follow Varun on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/varungyan">@varungyan</a>.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <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> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://grpc.io">grpc.io</a></li> <li>gRPC on <a href="https://github.com/grpc">GitHub</a></li> <li>Mailing list for gRPC: <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/grpc-io">grpc-io@googlegroups.com</a></li> <li>Take a REST with HTTP/2, Protobufs, and Swagger <a href="https://coreos.com/blog/gRPC-protobufs-swagger.html">blog</a></li> <li>Protocol Buffers <a href="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding">docs</a></li> <li>etcd: distributed key-value store with grpc/http2 <a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/etcd-distributed-key-value-store-with-grpc-http2/"> blog</a></li> <li>Flatbuffers <a href="https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/">docs</a></li> <li>Game on! Flatbuffers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQTxMkSJ1dQ">video</a></li> <li>thrift <a href="https://thrift.apache.org/">docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>Special guests <a href="https://twitter.com/SRobTweets">Sara Robinson</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/_davideast">David East</a>.</p> <ul> <li>Firebase authentication with email and password <a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/guide/login/password.html">docs</a></li> <li>Firebase <code>authData</code> for iOS <a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/ios/api/#firebase_authData">docs</a></li> <li>Firebase UI for <a href="https://github.com/firebase/FirebaseUI-Android">Android</a> and <a href="https://github.com/firebase/FirebaseUI-iOS">iOS</a></li> </ul>
