Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p>In the fourteenth 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/newsons_nybbles">Paul Newson</a>. Paul is now a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform but was a Software Engineer in the Cloud Storage team. Together they discuss the multiple options available for data storage on the cloud and the trade offs to be taken into account while choosing one.</p> <h5 id="about-paul">About Paul</h5> <p>Paul currently focuses on helping developers harness the power of Google Cloud Platform to solve their big data problems. Previously, he was an engineer on Google Cloud Storage. 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> <p>Follow Paul on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/newsons_nybbles">@newsons_nybbles</a>.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Opinionated Deployment Tools & Kubernetes <a href="http://blog.jonparrott.com/building-a-paas-on-kubernetes/">blog post</a> and <a href="https://github.com/jonparrott/noel">Github repository</a><br /></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>When to Pick Google Bigtable vs Other Cloud Platform Databases <a href="http://terrenceryan.com/blog/index.php/when-to-pick-google-bigtable-vs-other-cloud-platform-databases/"> blog post</a>.</li> <li>Where Should I Store My Stuff? - slightly outdated <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_EVh19Y5Rw">video</a>.</li> <li>Choosing a Storage Option <a href="https://cloud.google.com/docs/storing-your-data">docs</a>.</li> <li>Google Drive <a href="https://developers.google.com/drive/">docs</a>.</li> <li>Google Cloud Storage <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/overview">docs</a>.</li> <li>Google Cloud Datastore <a href="https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/overview">docs</a>.</li> <li>Google Cloud SQL <a href="https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/introduction">docs</a>.</li> <li>Google Cloud Bigtable <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/">docs</a>.</li> <li>Google BigQuery <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/what-is-bigquery">docs</a>.</li> <li>Google Cloud Dataflow <a href="https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/what-is-google-cloud-dataflow">docs</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="A decision tree on Google Cloud Storage" src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/storage-tree.svg" /></div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>Question from Jeff Schnitzer: Can you use Java 8 features in Standard App Engine?</p> <ul> <li>Google App Engine Standard Environment <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/about-the-standard-environment"> docs</a>.</li> <li>Google App Engine Managed VMs <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/">docs</a>.</li> <li>Retrolambda <a href="https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda">Github repo</a>.</li> </ul>
