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How UniSuper is helping Australians get the best of their superannuation fund investments with cloud 11/16/2023

How UniSuper is helping Australians get the best of their superannuation fund investments with cloud In this special episode, we are featuring . In Australia, every employee is required to select their superannuation fund of choice to help them invest a portion of their income. Having celebrated its 40th anniversary recently, UniSuper, one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, is committed to delivering value and efficiency for its members. Started as a fund for the higher education and research sector, it has now opened its platform to all industries across the country. Today, UniSuper invests more than $120 billion on behalf of more than 620,000 members. With the new Treasury Laws Amendment Act 2021, Your Future, Your Super, that aims to improve the outcome of superannuation funds for Australians, UniSuper decided to undergo a data centre transformation, taking on an 80/20 rule on cloud hosting and adopting the right digital technologies to improve its performance and portfolio. In this episode, Angelo talks about how Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) underpins UniSuper’s shift to the cloud as it moves existing VMware-based workloads from on-premises data centers to the cloud. This enables the organization to quickly scale up while having the flexibility and agility it needs to drive operational efficiencies as it continues to deliver the best returns for its customers. He also shares how the COVID-19 pandemic presented him with some crucial moments of thought that have resulted in some of the changes in best practices across the organization today. Angelo Furina, Head of Enterprise Infrastructure & Cloud Angelo is the Head of Enterprise Infrastructure and Cloud at UniSuper and is passionate about business transformation and bridging the gap between technology and business strategy. With more than a decade of industry experience, Angelo has delivered technology solutions across manufacturing, telecommunications, media and finance. Theo Davies Theo is the Head of Cloud Sales Excellence & Productivity at Google Cloud. He is a record-breaking salesperson, sales leader, coach and speaker with a 20+ year career beginning in sales. Theo is also the President of the Google Public Speaking Academy. /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/28678238

Creating a sustainable EV ecosystem in Taiwan with ChargeSmith 08/16/2023

Creating a sustainable EV ecosystem in Taiwan with ChargeSmith In this special episode, we are featuring . As the electric vehicles (EV) sector accelerates, drivers are finding it a challenge to conveniently access charging points. This has become one of the biggest concerns for EV drivers around the world. Intending to solve this problem, Taiwan-born company offers EV users an end-to-end charging solution by developing a map for drivers, with the most updated information on location and availability of charging points around the country. Today, ChargeSmith serves more than 70% of EV users in Taiwan, partnering with various charging point operators to give users a high level of accessibility. Their vision and goal is to organize and share energy with communities, countries, and the earth. In this episode, ChargeSmith CEO Andy Chen talks about sustainability in the EV market and the growth of EV adoption. As an EV driver himself, Chen shares the issues he faces first-hand, and how ChargeSmith is leveraging data to solve the challenges of today while paving a future for EV drivers of tomorrow. In this episode, we also hear from Alex Kuo of GAIA, who shares how his team collaborates with ChargeSmith to use cloud technology as an enabler in this evolving landscape. Are you ready for a cleaner driving experience? Tune in to find out. Andy Chen, CEO of ChargeSmith Andy is one of the earliest EV adaptors in Taiwan. With enthusiasm for the EV community, he has led ChargeSmith to build up Taiwan's largest EV charging roaming network. Andy enjoys observing the market’s pain points and using data-driven strategies to accelerate the adoption of the product. Alex Kuo, Sr. Account Manager of GAIA An accomplished sales professional, Alex has led sales teams across the IT industry to success, helping SMB and enterprise clients achieve impressive business growth. With a passion for blockchain technology, Alex enjoys innovating and developing new products and services for clients that ultimately contribute to the growth of the industry. Theo Davies Theo is Head of Cloud Sales Excellence & Productivity at Google Cloud and host of “That Digital Show APAC”. He is a record-breaking salesperson, sales leader, coach and speaker with a 20+ year career beginning in sales. Theo is also the President of the Google Public Speaking Academy. Interview ChargeSmith: https://www.chargesmith.com/ev/ Hosts Theo Davies and Paris Tran /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/27747114

Tapping onto AI to build a more sustainable future with Recursive AI 07/26/2023

Tapping onto AI to build a more sustainable future with Recursive AI In this special episode, we are featuring . AI is seen as a powerful tool and enabler for businesses around the world. At the same time, more organizations are looking for ways to operate more sustainably. To combine the two, was established in 2020, formalizing the way AI can be used for sustainability. Whether it’s through innovation, improving productivity, providing better education, or using AI for prevention and mitigation efforts in managing climate change, Recursive AI is changing the sustainability landscape one project at a time. In this episode, Recursive AI co-founder Tiago Ramalho puts on a new lens to the way we think about AI. He tells us how neural networks, which form the core infrastructure of AI, can simulate systems quickly, finding new and improved solutions to existing problems. He also shares how the company is predicting the future of natural disasters so that organizations can take action before it is too late. When it comes to sustainability, no action is too small. Listen in to find out how the organization is innovating by leveraging AI technology to solve the sustainability problems of today and tomorrow. Dr. Tiago Ramalho, Recursive Co-founder and CEO Tiago is the co-founder and CEO of , a company focused on building AI tools to help companies grow their sustainability impact. Tiago is a physicist and former Googler at Google DeepMMind with a passion for technology and sustainability. Through Recursive, Tiago is able to marry the two to help others create a greener tomorrow. Theo Davies Theo is Head of Cloud Sales Excellence & Productivity at Google Cloud and host of “That Digital Show APAC”. He is a record-breaking salesperson, sales leader, coach and speaker with a 20+ year career beginning in sales. Theo is also the President of the Google Public Speaking Academy. Interview Recursive AI: https://recursiveai.co.jp/en/ Hosts Theo Davies and Paris Tran /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/27555669

Streamlining the Philippine education network with an all-in-one school management app with Wela 05/03/2023

Streamlining the Philippine education network with an all-in-one school management app with Wela In this special episode, we are featuring . In the Philippines, class sizes in schools are often quite large with an average of 30 students per class. This makes keeping track of individual students’ progress a challenge. To solve this problem, John and Chris Fiel, co-founders of Wela School Systems developed a digital solution for schools, teachers, and parents to keep track of basic administrative tasks like daily attendance-taking and keeping record of grades, among other things to keep paperwork at bay. Starting with just three schools upon launch, Wela now serves more than 200 schools on its platform. To make sure it meets the needs of users, the duo constantly asks for feedback from customers, and pick out the most common needs to address and build around. The startup also follows a freemium model so that schools can test and discover if the product is really adding value for them, before deciding to purchase it. Listen in to hear how Wela continues to win the hearts of educators, and the impact they are making on the Philippine education system. In this podcast, they also share their views on the future of education and how data can be used to improve teaching processes and the learning environment. John Fiel, CEO, Wela School Systems John’s interest in the startup industry brought him to establish his own game development startup after college, which lasted for two years. Now, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wela School System. Wela is one of the Pioneering DOST Funded Startups in the Philippines. Wela is now running for five years and serving over 190 schools both national and international. Chris Fiel, CTO, Wela School Systems Chris is a serial technopreneur with the aim of creating disruptive and useful apps using the latest technology trends. His heart and inclination is into programming where his 25 years of experience as a freelance developer can speak of. He is currently into ERP, IoT and blockchain and looking for consulting and development projects along these areas. Theo Davies Theo is Head of Cloud Sales Excellence & Productivity at Google Cloud and host of “That Digital Show APAC”. He is a record breaking salesperson, sales leader, coach and speaker with a 20+ year career beginning in sales. Theo is also the President of the Google Public Speaking Academy. Interview Wela School System: Hosts Theo Davies and Paris Tran /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/26711337

GoJek’s digital journey to becoming one of Indonesia’s biggest multi-platform apps 03/29/2023

GoJek’s digital journey to becoming one of Indonesia’s biggest multi-platform apps In this special episode, we are featuring . Theo Davies and speak to , Head of Technology at GoJek, who shares inside knowledge on GoJek’s explosive growth, from being a ride hailing app, to a multi-platform one that is a now a major eCommerce player in Indonesia, especially in last mile delivery. Sartaj shares GoJek’s focus on three pillars, customer incentive, driver rewards and pricing, to ensure consistency in service delivery quality. He also discusses how he looks to improve platformization with his team through innovation, by putting people over processes, and helping engineers address challenges in order to stay agile and scalable. From sitting at the side of the street to solve production issues, to managing and growing a team of over 1,000 in just a few years, listen in as Sartaj shares interesting personal excerpts on GoJek’s journey in shifting from a startup “hustler” mindset, to a more corporate way of working, and everything that it entails. Sartaj Singh is the Head of Engineering Platforms at Gojek. Sartaj is one of the few engineers who has been with GOJEK since the early days. As a literary enthusiast, he never thought that he would end up working in tech. Sartaj is responsible for driving growth, standardizing and improving Indonesia’s multi-service platform. Theo Davies Theo is Head of Cloud Sales Excellence & Productivity at Google Cloud and host of “That Digital Show APAC”. He is a record breaking salesperson, sales leader, coach and speaker with a 20+ year career beginning in sales. Theo is also the President of the Google Public Speaking Academy. Cool things of the week 5 GKE features to help you optimize your clusters Interview Gojek Gojek: Using Machine Learning for forecasting and dynamic pricing Introducing Firehose: An open source tool from Gojek Meet Optimus, Gojek’s open-source cloud data transformation tool Gojek: Helping drivers reach their pickup points up to 20% more quickly with Google Maps Platform What’s something cool you’re working on? Theo is trying out Snapchat and is excited about Hosts Stephanie Wong and Theo Davies /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/26355123

2022 Year End Wrap Up 12/21/2022

2022 Year End Wrap Up Happy Holidays from all of us at Google! This week, hosts , , and are sharing their favorite moments from the year! From great partnerships with national companies, new releases in some of your favorite Google software tools, and a trillion digits of pi, we’re breaking down some 2022 highlights and introducing special guest Podcast Producer Kevin McCormack to help with a fun podcast trivia game! Carter Morgan is Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, where he creates and hosts content on Google’s Youtube channel, co-hosts several Google Cloud podcasts, and designs courses like the Udacity course “Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes” he co-created with Kelsey Hightower. Carter Morgan is an international standup comedian, who’s approach of creating unique moments with the audience in front of him has seen him perform all over the world, including in Paris, London, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with Joe White. And in 2019, and the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Previously, he was a programmer for the USAF and Microsoft. Stephanie Wong is a Developer Advocate focusing on online content across all Google Cloud products. She’s a host of the GCP Podcast and the Where the Internet Lives podcast, along with many GCP Youtube video series. She is the winner of a 2021 Webby Award for her content about data centers. Previously she was a Customer Engineer at Google and at Oracle. Outside of her tech life she is a former pageant queen and hip hop dancer and has an unhealthy obsession with dogs. Max Saltonstall is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google Cloud. He is a father, teacher, storyteller, speaker, educator, nefarious villain, game designer, juggler, and is only part zombie. Cool things of the week Boost medical discoveries with AlphaFold on Vertex AI 6 common mistakes to avoid in RESTful web API Design Marketing Analytics With Google Cloud Our Favorite Episodes of 2022 Stephanie’s Favorites GCP Podcast Episode 290: Resiliency at Shopify with Camilo Lopez and Tai Dickerson GCP Podcast Episode 315: Cloud Functions (2nd gen) with Jaisen Mathai and Sara Ford GCP Podcast Episode 307: FinOps with Joe Daly Carter’s Favorites GCP Podcast Episode 308: New Pi World Record with Emma Haruka Iwao and Sara Ford GCP Podcast Episode 327: ML/AI Data Science for Data Analytics with Jed Dougherty and Dan Darnell GCP Podcast Episode 289: Cloud Security Megatrends with Phil Venables Max’s Favorites GCP Podcast Episode 316: Google Cloud for Higher Education with Laurie White and Aaron Yeats GCP Podcast Episode 317: Launching Products at Google Cloud with Anita Kibunguchy-Grant and Gabe Weiss GCP Podcast Episode 325: Digital Sovereignty with Archana Ramamoorthy and Julien Blanchez Stephanie’s Honorable Mentions GCP Podcast Episode 323: Next 2022 with Forrest Brazeal and Stephanie Wong GCP Podcast Episode 298: Celebrating Women’s History Month with Vidya Nagarajan Raman Carter’s Honorable Mentions GCP Podcast Episode 312: Managed Service for Prometheus with Lee Yanco and Ashish Kumar GCP Podcast Episode 290: Resiliency at Shopify with Camilo Lopez and Tai Dickerson Max’s Honorable Mentions GCP Podcast Episode 326: Assured Workloads with Key Access Justifications with Bryce Buffaloe and Seth Denney | Google Cloud Platform Podcast Hosts Stephanie Wong, Carter Morgan and Max Saltonstall /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/25389390

Cloud Workstations with Marcos Grappeggia and Antoine Castex 12/14/2022

Cloud Workstations with Marcos Grappeggia and Antoine Castex and welcome fellow Googler and of L’Oreal to talk about Cloud Workstations, Google’s software that provides managed development environments. Marcos elaborates on the power of Cloud Workstations and all the features and offerings this software provides. The preconfigured nature of Cloud Workstations means developers simply press a button and get an IDE so they’re ready to code quickly. Other teams benefit as well, with templates created by Cloud Workstations that specify options to be preinstalled. Marcos talks more about the benefits of Workstations over local environments, especially in the areas of security and productivity. L’Oreal chose Google Cloud years ago when they began their transition to the cloud, Antoine tells us, and we hear how L’Oreal offered Marcos suggestions and feedback as Workstations was developed. Working with Cloud Workstations today, L’Oreal’s teams spread across the globe are able to begin realizing the dream of creating environments with parameters specific to different regions and areas. While Cloud Workstations and Cloud Shell are similar solutions in some ways, Marcos helps us understand the differences as well. For example, Cloud Shell is less flexible while Workstations is highly customizable. Antoine talks more about the adoption process of Workstations at L’Oreal and how they plan to continue using the software with more teams in the future. He offers advice for other companies looking to introduce it. Workstations works with the Software Delivery Shield suite to build and maintain a secure software supply chain. Security features developers are used to in productions services are easily applied to development environments in Workstations as well. Marcos talks about the future of Cloud Workstations, including deeper security integration. Marcos Grappeggia is a Product Manager at Google Cloud, leading Cloud Workstations and Cloud Shell. Marcos is an engineer from University of Campinas (Brazil) and École Centrale Paris (France). Prior to joining Google, he led product at Appurify (acquired by Google, now Firebase Test Lab), enabling mobile test automation on real devices for mobile developers. Antoine Castex is a curious French man, a Serverless Guru multiple times GCP Certified and C2C French Club Co-President & Co-Founder. Cool things of the week Introduction to custom org policy How to configure rules and policies in Google Cloud Armor - What this video covers - How to create a new rule from scratch - How to clone an existing out-of-the-box rule and modify it to create a new rule - How to copy a rule or policy and apply it to multiple backends / Rate limiting feature - How to use a Rule in Preview mode and test a new rule before enabling it / Threat intelligence feature - Wrap up Interview Cloud Workstations Cloud Shell Software Delivery Shield Cloud IDE Google Cloud Console C2C How to increase developer productivity with Cloud Workstations What’s something cool you’re working on? Max is teaching his cats to do silly tricks! Stephanie is planning a vacation! Hosts Max Saltonstall and Stephanie Wong /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/25327527

Active Assist and Resource Lifecycle Management with Sharon Fang and Michael Sudakovitch 12/07/2022

Active Assist and Resource Lifecycle Management with Sharon Fang and Michael Sudakovitch Guests Sharon Fang and Michael Sudakovitch are here this week to talk with and about Google’s Active Assist optimization portfolio and managing cloud projects efficiently. Michael, tech lead at Uber, first employed Active Assist for the company in their security department, but they have since realized how useful Active Assist is in many areas of the resource management space. Responsible architects, Michael points out, continually evaluate their resources and patch, update, or remove as necessary to ensure proper security and optimize spending. Sharon helps us understand resource management further and how Active Assist helps teams find resources that can be changed or even removed for better spending, tighter security, and smaller carbon footprint. Active Assist will even recommend the removal of entire projects that have become dormant. Michael talks in detail about Uber’s use of Active Assist and how it helped them find vulnerable projects that could be removed for better security. Sharon highlights the effects of Active Assist on reducing CO2 emissions as well, as discontinued projects keep hardware running needlessly. As Michael and his team at Uber began taking advantage of all Active Assist had to offer, Google worked with him to answer questions, tailor resources, and take feedback to improve offerings. The future includes a portfolio expansion of resource life cycle management tools to identify more idol systems like GKE clusters and helping larger customers take advantage of Active Assist at scale automatically. Together, Sharon and Michael tell us stories about the partnership and interesting findings and results of Uber’s carbon footprint reduction journey. Sharon Fang Sharon Fang is a Product Manager for Google Cloud’s Active Assist, which aims to help users optimize their cloud operations with recommendations. Michael Sudakovitch Michael is a Tech Lead at Uber’s Engineering Security organization, focusing on securing and optimizing Uber’s Multi-Cloud infrastructure. Cool things of the week Solving internal search problems with Dialogflow Automating self-service tech support with Tensorflow Introducing IAM Deny, a simple way to harden your security posture at scale Supporting healthcare delivery with cloud-native medical imaging Interview Active Assist Uber Uber Engineering Blog How ML-fueled recommendations help developers optimize security, price-performance, and carbon reduction Introducing Unattended Project Recommender: discover, reclaim, or deprecate abandoned projects under your organization Reduce your cloud carbon footprint with new Active Assist recommendations What’s something cool you’re working on? Max is sorting out the final blog posts of the year, planning some secret Santa holiday festivities for the team, and prepping cranberry sauces. Daryl is planning videos for the new year, including a video to help celebrate our 1 millionth subscriber on the and several videos to help people get the most out of Google Cloud IAM features. Hosts Max Saltonstall and Daryl Ducharme /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/25251645

Database Migration Service with Shachar Guz, Inna Weiner, and Gabe Weiss 11/16/2022

Database Migration Service with Shachar Guz, Inna Weiner, and Gabe Weiss talks with guests Shachar Guz, Inna Weiner, and about Google’s Database Migration Service and how it helps companies move data to Google Cloud. What typically is a complicated process, DMS simplifies everything from planning to security to validating database migrations. DMS has undergone some changes since last we spoke with Shachar and Gabe. It’s gone GA and helped thousands of customers benefit from the service. Migrations are possible from any PostgreSQL database source to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, which is designed to support HTAP data (transactional and analytical). One of the most exciting updates is the introduction of the DMS modernization journey, which allows customers to change database type during migration (heterogenous). In addition, migrations with DMS can be set up to continuously replicate data between the old and new database. With this feature, developers can compare the application performance against the old vs. new database. Inna talks about the benefits of keeping your data in the cloud, like secure, reliable, and scalable data storage. Google Cloud takes care of the maintenance work for you as well. DMS takes security seriously and supports multiple security methods to keep your data safe as it migrates. We talk about the different customers using DMS and how the process works for homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations. Before you even start, Gabe tells us, DMS helps you prepare for the migration. And tools like Dataflow can help when customers decide full migration would be too difficult. We talk about the difference between Datastream and DMS and use cases for each. We wrap up the show with a look at the future of DMS. Shachar Guz Shachar is a product manager at Google Cloud, he works on the Cloud Database Migration Service. Shachar worked in various product and engineering roles and shares a true passion about data and helping customers get the most out of their data. Shachar is passionate about building products that make cumbersome processes simple and straightforward and helping companies adopt Cloud technologies to accelerate their business. Inna Weiner is a senior technical leader with 20+ years of global experience. She is a big data expert, specializing in deriving insights from data, product and user analytics. Currently, she leads engineering for Cloud DMS. Inna enjoys building diverse engineering organizations, with common vision, growth strategy and inclusive culture. Gabe Weiss leads the database advocacy team for the Google Cloud Platform team ensuring that developers can make awesome things, both inside and outside of Google. That could mean speaking at conferences, writing example code, running bootcamps, writing technical blogs or just doing some hand holding. Prior to Google he’s worked in virtual reality production and distribution, source control, the games industry and professional acting. Cool things of the week Flexible committed use discounts — a simple new way to discount Compute Engine instances Understanding transactional locking in Cloud Spanner Interactive In-console Tutorial Interview Database Migration Service GCP Podcast Episode 262: Database Migration Service with Shachar Guz and Gabe Weiss AlloyDB for PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Datastream Dataflow CloudSQL Spanner What’s something cool you’re working on? Gabe has been tinkering with new Google Cloud databases and managing a new team. Hosts Stephanie Wong /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/25038567

ML/AI Data Science for Data Analytics with Jed Dougherty and Dan Darnell 11/09/2022

ML/AI Data Science for Data Analytics with Jed Dougherty and Dan Darnell On the show this week, and talk about AI and ML data analytics with Dataiku VP of Platform Strategy, Jed Dougherty, and Head of Product Marketing, Dan Darnell. Dataiku is an AI platform targeted for business team collaboration. The low and no code environments make it easy for developers and not so tech savvy employees to work together on analytics projects. It strives for everyday AI, making these normally highly technical data processes more accessible. Our guests detail the tools Dataiku provides customers, including ML Ops features for efficient models. Dataiku’s managed offering allows businesses to concentrate on the model while Dataiku takes care of things like the deployment processes behind the scenes. We hear about the partnership between Dataiku and Google Cloud and Dataiku’s integration with AlloyDB. Through a real example, our guests run us through the use of these two tools together. Jed talks about why Google Cloud works so well with Dataiku, especially for businesses looking for cutting edge technology. Jed Dougherty Jed is the VP of Platform Strategy at Dataiku. In this role he acts as a strategic technical advisor to Dataiku customers and prospects. He also works tightly with Engineering and Product stakeholders in order to ensure that all technical platform requests are properly followed, scoped and implemented. Dan Darnell Dan has over 20 years of experience in the analytics industry at established software companies, hyper-growth technology companies, and small technology start-ups. As the Head of Product Marketing at Dataiku, he owns positioning, evangelism, and content creation for product offerings and education on products for customers and partners. Cool things of the week Google Cloud supercharges NLP with large language models Practicing the principle of least privilege with Cloud Build and Artifact Registry Interview Dataiku Dataiku YouTube BigQuery Kubernetes GKE AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Accelerate AI Adoption: 3 Steps to Deploy Dataiku for Google Cloud Platform Implementing Dataiku with BigQuery GCP Podcast Episode 238: ASML with Arnaud Hubaux GCP Podcast Episode 229: Lucidworks with Radu Miclaus What’s something cool you’re working on? Anu is working on interesting speech use cases and Google’s Speech to Text. Join in with this ! Carter is working on getting organized and working on something super cool! Hosts Carter Morgan and Anu Srivastava /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24956670

Assured Workloads with Key Access Justifications with Bryce Buffaloe and Seth Denney 11/02/2022

Assured Workloads with Key Access Justifications with Bryce Buffaloe and Seth Denney Hosts and Daryl Ducharme are joined by Bryce Buffaloe and Seth Denney to chat about Assured Workloads and the sovereignty control Key Access Justifications so customers can see how their data is used and control who can see what. Assured Workloads with Google is a security and compliance engine that allows users to control their data with the help of Google. With the expansion of data use around the globe, data sovereignty has become more important as well, and Google Cloud products offer myriad tools to maintain control, privacy, and compliance no matter the location. Seth talks more about sovereignty and how it’s changing data storage and management. Our guests talk about how Google has tackled the sovereignty issues, difficult decisions that had to be made, and the process of working with clients to optimize tools for different security and sovereignty scenarios. With Key Access Justifications, Google has bolstered its offerings to provide clients with trustworthy controls to keep data secure and sovereign, from Compute Engine VMs to BigQuery. We learn what Key Access Justifications look like for users and how the encryption keys work in different Google Cloud services. Customer managed key material is stored outside of Google and the key manager must give permission for access for an added layer of trust and security. Seth and Bryce explain why this is important and describe how KAJ are used with some examples. These features may also be used to improve security in the future by preventing data from being decrypted and stolen should someone ever get access to your system. We hear more about the future of data security and sovereignty, including simplifying the process with managed services and easier onboarding. Strategic European partnerships are helping Google tackle these important issues overseas so clients can focus on their businesses and worry less about data security. The catalyst for KAJ was a large German bank that recognized the sovereignty changes coming, and we hear more about the origins of KAJ and the path to where it is today. When paired with Assured Workloads, clients get maximum sovereignty coverage. Seth talks a little about the Sovereignty Access Controls done internally as well. Bryce walks us through using these Google services with a European example. Bryce Buffaloe Bryce is Product manager for Google Cloud Security managing the portfolio of the Assured Workload’s solution suite. Seth Denney Seth is KAJ Tech Lead, responsible for ensuring the integrity and usefulness of KAJs to support customer data sovereignty Cool things of the week DevFests Best Kept Security Secrets: Tap into the power of Organization Policy Service Interview Assured Workloads Assured Workloads Playlist Key Access Justifications Compute Engine BigQuery GCP Podcast Episode 325: Digital Sovereignty with Archana Ramamoorthy and Julien Blanchez T Systems What’s something cool you’re working on? Daryl just released a about using Workflows’ new parallel step. Max is working on crossover episodes across our various podcast streams, so we can have SRE guests on to the GCP podcast to talk reliability, for example, or bring some of the Kubernetes hosts to the Cloud Security podcast to discuss securing Kubernetes workloads. Hosts Max Saltonstall and Daryl Ducharme /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24883533

Digital Sovereignty with Archana Ramamoorthy and Julien Blanchez 10/26/2022

Digital Sovereignty with Archana Ramamoorthy and Julien Blanchez This week, and welcome guests Archana Ramamoorthy and to talk about digital sovereignty and what goes into a technical strategy for dealing with this complicated facet of web projects. Our guests start the show with a thorough explanation of digital sovereignty, explaining that it typically involves a state or regulatory agency exerting control over data and technology. As more and more data is taken into the cloud, countries are understandably concerned about a loss of control over this data, and nations are enacting laws and regulations to help manage security of data in the cloud. Standardization has been a human issue for a long time, from trains to international travel and more, Archana reminds us, and this challenge is now moving to the management of cloud data out in the world. As sovereign nations implement their own standards, cloud providers must adapt to help developers create projects that follow these laws. Julien talks about the discussions around digital sovereignty in Europe, especially as it affects data security. Lawmakers, cloud providers, and companies have been working together to think through effective laws and strategies for digital security around the world. Googlers across the globe are working locally to make sure Google’s suite of products are compatible with government regulations and the needs of developers. Archana and Julien talk about the three important action segments Google employs to make sure tools allow for control over who has access to data when and how, and we hear the journey Google has trekked from the very beginning to now as the company has worked for strong security and versatile data management. Local partnerships are a big part of the advancements made in the sovereignty space, Julien tells us, increasing trust with developers in the area and leveraging local knowledge. With offerings like Cloud Key Management, Google provides unique options for developers to control and secure data. To keep things easy, especially in the case of hybrid solutions, this portfolio of sovereignty products uses the same APIs, streamlined onboarding setups, and familiar interfaces Google product users are accustomed to. Archana Ramamoorthy Archana is the Director of Cloud Security Product Management. She has spent a lot of her career building security products for enterprise organizations. Julien Blanchez looks after the coordination of Google’s local digital sovereignty partnerships and how to position them in the market, after many years helping regulators and highly regulated customers in EMEA on their Google Cloud adoption journey worldwide. Cool things of the week Google Cloud Podcasts Cloud Security Podcast Google Cloud SRE Podcast Developer Community Keynote: The thing about burnout Interview Google Cloud Next ‘22: Meet digital sovereignty requirements Announcing Sovereign Controls for Google Workspace Cloud Key Management Confidential Computing What’s something cool you’re working on? Max is working on expanding Google’s podcast platform, giving it some more visibility. He’s also working on Halloween and LARP costumes and teaching new board games. Chloe is working on her Halloween costume, too, and working on Google Cloud Reader. Hosts Max Saltonstall and Chloe Condon /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24808239

Top 5 Data & Analytics Launches from Next 2022 with Bruno Aziza and Maire Newton 10/19/2022

Top 5 Data & Analytics Launches from Next 2022 with Bruno Aziza and Maire Newton Debi Cabrera and have more great Next content this week as we focus on launches specifically related to data and analytics with guests and . We start the episode with a look at current customer trends in data, including tools for increasing efficiency when working with many different types of data. Data governance and security is another area where Bruno sees advances in satisfying customer needs. Maire talks about the steps Google is taking to help customers implement knowledge gained with data, including Looker and new integrations with tools like Looker Studio to easily connect tools for better data access and use. Strategic partnerships with companies like Tableau help accomplish these goals as well. With 21 data and analytics launches at Next, exciting solutions are out there for customers. Bruno and Maire highlight their five favorites, like BigQuery support for unstructured data, allowing analysts working with SQL to do more with more data. To simplify workflows, BigQuery integration with Spark is a new feature that Maire tells us about, and we hear more about BigLake and it’s increased format support. Data reaches more people easier now with Connected Sheets available for anyone using Google Workspace, and finally we talk more about Looker. Bruno details the four use cases of business intelligence customers and how Google’s suite of data products satisfy their needs for a reasonable price. Bruno Aziza is head of data and analytics for Google Cloud and leads the outbound product management team. He has more than two decades’ of Silicon Valley experience, specializing in scaling businesses, and has written two books on Data Analytics and Enterprise Performance Management. Maire Newton is an Outbound Product Manager at Google Cloud with almost 15 years of experience partnering with organizations to develop data solutions and drive digital transformation. She’s passionate about helping customers develop data-driven cultures by using technology to meet users where they are. Cool things of the week Google Cloud Next for data professionals: analytics, databases and business intelligence ANA104 How Boeing overcame their on-premises implementation challenges with data & AI ANA100 What’s new in Looker and Data Studio ANA101 What’s new in BigQuery ANA106 How leading organizations are making open source their super power Google Cloud Next: top AI and ML sessions Interview Building the most open data cloud ecosystem Data Journeys Google Cloud Next ‘22 Looker Looker Studio Tableau BigLake BigQuery Use the BigQuery connector with Spark Connected Sheets What’s something cool you’re working on? Debi is getting married and working on . Hosts Stephanie Wong and Debi Cabrera /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24736644

Next 2022 with Forrest Brazeal and Stephanie Wong 10/12/2022

Next 2022 with Forrest Brazeal and Stephanie Wong joins today on the second day of Google Cloud Next ‘22. We’re talking about all the exciting announcements, how the conference has changed in recent years, and what to expect in the days ahead. The excitement and energy of the first in-person Next since 2019 was one of the best parts for Forrest. With 1300 releases in just half the year, a lot has happened in BigQuery, AI, Looker, and more. Next includes announcements in many of these areas as well, as Google Cloud expands and makes Cloud easier for all types of projects and clients. Strategic partnerships and development have allowed better use of Google Cloud for the virtual work world and advancements in sustainability have helped Google users feel better about their impact on the environment. New announcements in compute include C3 VMs, the first VM in the cloud with 4th Gen Intel Xeon scalable processors with Google’s custom Intel IPU. MediaCDN uses the YouTube infrastructure and the new Live Stream API optimizes streaming capabilities. Among many other announcements, Network Analyzer is now GA allowing for simplified network configuration monitoring and Google Cloud Armor has been extended to include ML-based Adaptive Protection capabilities. Software Delivery Shield and Cloud Workstations are recent offerings to help developers in each of the four areas of software supply chain management. Advancements in Cloud Build include added security benefits, and new GKE and Cloud Run logging and security alerts ensure projects remain secure through the final stages of development. The best way to ensure secure, optimized work is with well-trained developers. And in that vein, Google Cloud is introducing Innovators Plus to provide a new suite of developer benefits under a fixed cost subscription. Forrest tells us about #GoogleClout and the challenges available in the Next portal for conference-goers. Assured Workloads helps with data sovereignty in different regions, Confidential Space in Confidential Computing provides trust guarantees when companies perform joint data analysis and machine learning training, and Chronicle Security Operations are some of the exciting security announcements we saw at Next. On the show next week, we’ll go in depth on data announcements at Next, but Steph gives us a quick rundown of some of the biggest ones today. She talks briefly about announcements in AI, including Vertex AI Vision and Translation Hub. Forrest wraps up by talking about predictions for the future of tech and cloud. Forrest Brazeal is a cloud educator, author, speaker, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter. He is the creator of the Cloud Resume Challenge initiative, which has helped thousands of non-traditional learners take their first steps into the cloud. Cool things of the week Unlock biology & medicine potential with AlphaFold on Google Cloud Interview Google Cloud Next ‘22 Google Cloud Innovators What’s next for digital transformation in the cloud New cloud regions coming to a country near you The next wave of Google Cloud infrastructure innovation: New C3 VM and Hyperdisk 20+ Cloud Networking innovations unveiled at Google Cloud Next Introducing Software Delivery Shield for end-to-end software supply chain security Developers - Build, learn, and grow your career faster with Google Cloud Advancing digital sovereignty on Europe’s terms Introducing Confidential Space to help unlock the value of secure data collaboration Introducing Chronicle Security Operations: Detect, investigate, and respond to cyberthreats with the speed, scale, and intelligence of Google What’s new in Google Cloud databases: More unified. More open. More intelligent. Building the most open data cloud ecosystem: Unifying data across multiple sources and platforms Introducing the next evolution of Looker, your unified business intelligence platform Vertex AI Vision New AI Agents can drive business results faster: Translation Hub, Document AI, and Contact Center AI Open source collaborations and key partnerships to help accelerate AI innovation Google Cloud Launches First-of-Its-Kind Service to Simplify Mainframe Modernization for Customers in Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare and Other Industries Project Starline expands testing through an early access program What’s something cool you’re working on? Steph is working on the developer keynote and DevFest and . Check out her Next talk . Hosts Stephanie Wong /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24667308

2022 State of DevOps Report with Nathen Harvey and Derek DeBellis 10/05/2022

2022 State of DevOps Report with Nathen Harvey and Derek DeBellis On the show this week, we’re talking updated DevOps practices for 2022 with hosts and and our guests and Derek DeBellis. Nathen and Derek start the show with a thorough discussion of DORA, the research program dedicated to helping organizations improve software delivery and operations, and the state of DevOps report that Google publishes every year. This year, the DevOps research team strengthened their focus on security and discovered that one of the biggest predictors in security practice adoption is company culture. Open, communicative, and trustful company cultures are some of the best for accepting and implementing optimized security practices. Derek tells us how company cultures are measured and scored for this purpose and Nathen talks about team and individual burnout and its affects on culture. Low, medium, high, and elite teams are another indicator of culture, and Nathen explains how teams earn their label through four keys of software delivery performance. Each year, they let the data show these four clusters of team performance. But this year there were only three, and Derek talks more about this phenomenon and why the elite cluster seems to have disappeared. When operational performance analysis was added, the four clusters reemerged and were renamed to better suit the new analysis metrics. Nathen details these four new clusters: starting, which performs neither well nor poorly and may be just starting out; flowing, teams that are performing well across throughput, stability, and operational performance; slowing teams, which don’t have high throughput but excel in other areas; and retiring teams, which are reliable but not actively developing projects. We discuss how companies may shift from one cluster to another and how much context can affect this shift. We talk about key findings in the 2022 DevOps report, especially in the security space. Some of the most notable include the adoption of DevOps security practices and the decreased incidence of burnout on teams who leverage security practices. Nathen and Derek elaborate on how this year’s research changed from last year and what remained the same. Nathen Harvey works with teams helping them learn about and apply the findings of our research into high performing teams. He’s been involved in the DevOps community for more than a decade. Derek DeBellis Derek is a Quantitative User Experience Researcher at Google, where Derek focuses on survey research, logs analysis, and figuring out ways to measure concepts central to product development. Derek has published on Human-AI interaction, the impact of Covid-19’s onset on smoking cessation, designing for NLP errors and the role of UX in ensuring privacy. Cool things of the week Try out Cloud Spanner databases at no cost with new free trial instances Chipotle Is Testing More Artificial Intelligence Solutions To Improve Operations Gyfted uses Google Cloud AI/ML tools to match tech workers with the best jobs Interview 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report DevOps 2022 State of the DevOps Report Report DORA DORA Community SLSA Security Software Development Framework Westrum organizational culture Google finds culture, not tech, is the biggest predictor of DevOps security outcomes GCP Podcast Episode 205: DevOps with Nathen Harvey and Jez Humble GCP Podcast Episode 284: State of DevOps Report 2021 with Nathen Harvey and Dustin Smith GCP Podcast Episode 290: Resiliency at Shopify with Camilo Lopez and Tai Dickerson What’s something cool you’re working on? Steph is working on talks for and a Google Cloud dev conference in London. She’ll be talking about subsea fiber optics and Google Cloud networking products. Chloe is a Noogler, so she’s been working on learning as much as she can! She is excited to make her podcast debut this week! Hosts Stephanie Wong and Chloe Condon /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24594093

DEI and Belonging in the Cloud with Jason Smith 09/28/2022

DEI and Belonging in the Cloud with Jason Smith , founder of the Mixed Googlers group here at Google, joins to talk about DEI and the importance of belonging in tech. Jason helps us better understand what the concepts diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging mean to him. It’s more than just including different types of people, Jason tells us, companies must also give them equal opportunities and say in their jobs. We talk about the difference between DEI and belonging. Belonging means feeling comfortable and accepted and conveys a more concrete, real-life sense of community that brings DEI to life. While DEI is easy enough for a company to measure, it’s sometimes tricky to get a clear picture of belonging in a company. Jason talks about possible solutions to this problem. Growing up as the child of both a white and a black parent, Jason understands the importance of feeling a sense of belonging as a mixed race individual. In that vein, he founded Mixed Googlers, and he tells us more about how this group supports other mixed individuals at Google. He talks about the events they have hosted, including talks with famous mixed race speakers, and how the grassroots efforts to form and grow Mixed Googlers has created a great community. Later, Jason talks about DEI and belonging in tech companies and cloud specifically. He introduces us to some fun ways to incorporate DEI principles into company culture in a way that encourages all individuals to contribute their personal perspectives. He stresses the importance of allowing mistakes, especially when discussing diversity issues with your coworkers, so the conversation can be about growth and not about confrontation. Jason Smith is a Customer Engineer supporting application modernization and the founder of Mixed Googlers, an ERG dedicated to mixed race individuals. Cool things of the week Sign up for the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge Google Cloud Firewall introduces Network Firewall Policies, IAM-governed Tags and more Building trust in the data with Dataplex Interview Google Belonging Google 2022 Diversity Annual Report Sugi Dakks: Not the Only One | Talks at Google Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Keynote BigQuery What’s something cool you’re working on? Stephanie is working on content for Next and the Drone Racing League. Hosts Stephanie Wong /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24517815

Vertex AI Experiments with Ivan Nardini and Karthik Ramachandran 09/21/2022

Vertex AI Experiments with Ivan Nardini and Karthik Ramachandran Vertex AI Experiments with Ivan Nardini and Karthik Ramachandran Hosts and Nikita Namjoshi are joined by guests and in a conversation about Vertex AI Experiments this week on the podcast. Vertex AI Experiments allows for easy, thorough ML experimentation and analysis of ML strategies. Our guests start the show with a brief introduction to Vertex AI and go on to help us understand where Experiments fits in. Because building ML models takes trial and error as we figure out what architecture and data management will work best, Experiments is a handy tool that helps developers try different variations. With extensive tracking capabilities and analysis tools, developers can see what is working, what’s not, and get ideas for other things to try. Ivan tells us about the two concepts to keep in mind before using Experiments: runs, which are training configurations, and experiments, adjustments you make as you look for the best solution. Vertex ML Metadata, a managed ML metadata tool, helps analyze Experiment runs in a graph, Ivan tells us. He takes us through an example ML model build and training using Vertex AI Experiments and other tools. He and Karthik also elaborate on the relationship between Vertex AI Experiments and Pipelines. We talk about the future of AI, including the foundational model, and some cool examples of what’s happening in the real world with Vertex AI Experiments. Ivan Nardini is a customer engineer specialized in ML and passionate about Developer Advocacy and MLE. He is currently collaborating and enabling Data Science developers and practitioners to define and implement MLOps on Vertex AI. He is an active contributor in Google Cloud. Karthik Ramachandran is a Product Managed on the VertexAI team. He’s been focused on developing MLOps tools like Vertex Pipelines and Experiments. Cool things of the week Expanding the Google Cloud Ready - Sustainability initiative with 12 new partners Large Language Models and how they are used with Natural Language Understanding. Interview Vertex AI Vertex AI Experiments Vertex AI SDK for Python Vertex ML Metedata Vertex AI Pipelines Vertex AI Workbench Vertex AI Tensorboard Track, compare, manage experiments with Vertex AI Experiments Vertex AI Experiments Notebooks What’s something cool you’re working on? Anu is working on demos for . Nikita is testing new features for . Hosts Nikita and Anu Srivastava /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24447744

Storage Spotlight with Sean Derrington and Nishant Kohli 09/14/2022

Storage Spotlight with Sean Derrington and Nishant Kohli Host chats with storage pros Sean Derrington and this week to learn more about cost optimization with storage projects and exciting new launches in the Google Cloud storage space! To start, we talk about the Storage Spotlight of years past and the cool Google Cloud products that Google is unveiling this year. Optimization is a huge theme this year, with a focus not only on cost optimization but also performance and resource use as well. Enterprise readiness and storage everywhere, Sean tells us, are the most important pillars as Google continues to improve offerings. We learn about Hyperdisk and the three customizable attributes users can control and the benefits of Filestore Enterprise for GKE for large client systems. Nishant talks about Cloud Storage and how clients are using it at scale for their huge data projects. Specifically, Google Storage has been working to help clients with large-scale data storage needs to optimize costs with Autoclass. Storage Insights is another new tool launching late this year or early next year that empowers better decision-making through increased knowledge and analytics of storage usage. GKE storage is getting a revamp as well with Backup for GKE to help clients recover applications and data easily. Google Cloud for Backup and DR helps keep projects secure as well. This managed service is easy to use and integrate into all cloud projects and can be used with on prem projects and then backed up into the cloud. This is ideal for clients as they shift to cloud or hybrid systems. Companies like Redivis take advantage of some of these new data features, and Nishant talks more about how Autoclass and other tools have helped them save money and improve their business. Sean Derrington Sean is the Group Product Manager for the storage team. He is a long time storage industry PM veteran; he’s worked on Veritas, Symantec, Exablox (storage startup). Nishant Kohli has a decade plus of Object Storage experience at Dell/EMC and Hitachi. He’s currently Senior Product Manager on the storage team. Cool things of the week Cloud Next 2022 Integrating ML models into production pipelines with Dataflow Four non-traditional paths to a cloud career (and how to navigate them) Interview What’s New & Next: A Spotlight on Storage Google Cloud Online Storage Products GCP Podcast Episode 277: Storage Launches with Brian Schwarz and Sean Derrington GKE Filestore Filestore Enterprise Filestore Enterprise for fully managed, fault tolerant persistent storage on GKE Cloud Storage Cloud Storage Autoclass GCP Episode 307: FinOps with Joe Daly Storage Insights GCP Podcast Episode 318: GKE Turns 7 with Tim Hockin Backup for GKE Backup and DR Service Redivis What’s something cool you’re working on? Stephanie is working on new video content and two sessions: one teaching how to simplify and secure your network for all workloads and one talking about how our infrastructure partner ecosystem helps customers. Hosts Stephanie Wong /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24374889

GKE Turns 7 with Tim Hockin 08/31/2022

GKE Turns 7 with Tim Hockin joins and to celebrate GKE’s seventh birthday! Tim starts with a brief background on GKE from its beginnings in 2015 and its relationship to Borg to the visions Google developers had for the software. GKE is meant to help companies focus on what they’re good at and leave the rest to Google’s managed Kubernetes service. Tim talks about his acting gig in a Kubernetes documentary, including some fun facts about Kubernetes’ early days and the significance of the number seven. Over time, the teams working on open source Kubernetes and GKE have worked together, with advances in the open source software influencing updates in GKE. Kubernetes 1.25 was released the day this episode was recorded, and Tim describes how much work and thought goes into building these updates. GKE offers GCP users unique ways to leverage Kubernetes tools like scaling, and Tim shares stories about the evolution of some of these tools and his experiences with networking. Talking with the Kubernetes community has helped refine GKE mult-icluster tools to help companies solve real problems, and Tim tells us more about other features and updates coming with future iterations of GKE. KubeCon is in October, so come by and learn more! Tim Hockin is Principal Software Engineer working with Kubernetes at Google Cloud. Cool things of the week What’s new with Google Cloud Power Your Business with Modern Cloud Apps: Strategies and Best Practices Securing apps for Googlers using Anthos Service Mesh Interview GKE Kubernetes Anthos Borg: The Predecessor to Kubernetes Enabling multi-cluster Gateways Cloud Load Balancing Multi-cluster Services Keynote: From One to Many, the Road to Multicluster- Kaslin Fields, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud GCP Podcast Episode 272: GKE Turns Six with Anthony Bushong, Gari Singh, and Kaslin Fields What’s something cool you’re working on? Kaslin is working on and stuff. Anthony is working on and getting ready to go on leave. Hosts Kaslin Fields and Anthony Bushong /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24227091

Launching Products at Google Cloud with Anita Kibunguchy-Grant and Gabe Weiss 08/24/2022

Launching Products at Google Cloud with Anita Kibunguchy-Grant and Gabe Weiss This week, and go behind the scenes at Google Cloud with and to learn how new products move from idea to market. To start, our guests walk us through a typical end-to-end life cycle as Google creates new and exciting products for users. Starting with a problem sometimes brought to light by users, a solution is workshopped, and a team is brought together to tackle the issue. Once the product is workable, Gabe and his team step in to evaluate and pass it on to Anita for market launch. With examples like BigQuery Omni and AlloyDB, Anita and Gabe walk us through a real launch scenario, from naming the product to promotion and observing the satisfying impacts of a product solving real-world problems. Anita details the three phases of a product launch and which teams are involved. The phases are pre-launch, during launch, and post-launch. In pre-launch, things like naming and messaging are crafted, priority is assigned via tier assignment, and plans are made to interact with various promotional and other teams who may need to be involved with the launch. Launch day activities are coordinated next as various marketing avenues are leveraged for maximum visibility and development teams work together to make the technical side successful. Post-Launch involves some debriefing on the success of the marketing as well as analysis of use, press coverage, page views, revenue, sentiment among users, and enabling sales teams for success. Gabe talks about the importance of his team in the process as they test products for customer usability and QA before launch as well. He and Anita elaborate on the differences with Google launches versus other companies, including the stages involved in launch and the naming of these stages. Many launches are done at big Google Cloud events, like Google I/O, Anita points out as a unique feature of Google, which can be a gift and a curse. Challenges are addressed as our guests talk us through possible problems and the ways launch teams address them. Anita and Gabe emphasize empathy and communication in product launching and the importance of clear, productive feedback. Anita Kibunguchy-Grant is a Product Marketing Lead at Google with extensive experience across Data Analytics and Databases products and solutions. Before Google, she led awareness and go-to-market programs at VMware. She has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and is passionate about helping customers use data and technology to transform their businesses. Gabe Weiss Gabe leads the database advocacy team for the Google Cloud Platform team ensuring that developers can make awesome things, both inside and outside of Google. Prior to Google he’s worked in virtual reality production and distribution, source control, the games industry, and professional acting. Cool things of the week Leveling up your data analysis skills as a student Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude How Google Cloud blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack at 46 million rps Interview BigQuery Datastream Database Migration Services Cloud SQL AlloyDB PostgreSQL Google I/O Qwiklabs Agones Databases What’s something cool you’re working on? Max is wrapping up his hosting of summer interns and getting ready for vacation! He plans to play a lot of board games and video games! Steph also enjoyed hosting interns this summer! Hosts Stephanie Wong and Max Saltonstall /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24154494

Google Cloud for Higher Education with Laurie White and Aaron Yeats 08/17/2022

Google Cloud for Higher Education with Laurie White and Aaron Yeats On the podcast this week, our guests Laurie White and Aaron Yeats talk with and about higher education and how Google Cloud is helping students realize their potential. As a former educator, Laurie has seen the holes in tech education and, with the help of Google, is determined to aid faculty and students in expanding learning to include cloud education as well as the standard on prem curriculum. Aaron and Laurie work together toward this goal with programs like their Speaker Series. Laurie’s approach involves supporting faculty as they design courses that incorporate cloud technologies. With the busy lives of students today, she recognizes that the best way to get the information into the hands of students is through regular coursework, not just through elective activities outside the regular classroom. Aaron’s work with students and student organizations rounds out their support of higher education learning. He facilitates the creation of student clubs that use Cloud Skills Boost, a program in which students navigate full pathways as they learn the skills they need to create and manage cloud builds. Soon, Aaron will offer hack-a-thons that encourage students to attend weekend events to work together on passion projects outside of regular classwork. Our guests talk more about the specifics of Google Cloud Higher Education Programs and the importance of incorporating certifications into the higher education learning process. Aaron talks about expanding the program and his hopes for reaching out to more schools and students and Laurie talks about the funding for students and how Google Cloud’s system of credits for students enables them to use real cloud tools without a credit card. Laurie and Aaron tell us fun stories about past student successes, conference interactions, and hack-a-thon projects that went well. Laurie White Laurie taught CS in higher ed for over 30 years where her biggest frustration was trying to keep the curriculum up with the field. She thought she was retiring seven years ago but got the call from Google to a job where she could help faculty around the world keep their curriculum up with cloud computing, so here she is. Aaron Yeats Aaron Yeats has been working in education outreach for two decades. His work in education has included Texas government education programs including public health, non-profit advocacy, and education. Cool things of the week How Wayfair is reaching MLOps excellence with Vertex AI Hidden gems of Google BigQuery Google Cloud Innovators Google Cloud and Apollo24|7: Building Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) together Interview Google Cloud Higher Education Programs Google Cloud Speaker Series Google Cloud Skills Boost CSSI Tech Equity Collective GDSC What’s something cool you’re working on? Steph has been working on an AlphaFold video. You can learn more . Kelci is working on developing a Neos tutorial for introductory Google Cloud developers to learn how to write HTTP functions in Python all within the Google Cloud environment and wrapping up her summer internship with Google! Hosts Stephanie Wong and Kelci Mensah /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24084141

Cloud Functions (2nd gen) with Jaisen Mathai and Sara Ford 08/10/2022

Cloud Functions (2nd gen) with Jaisen Mathai and Sara Ford and are joined today by fellow Googlers Jaisen Mathai and Sara Ford to hear all about Cloud Functions (2nd gen) and how it differs from the original. Jaisen gives us some background on Cloud Functions and why it was built. Supporting seven languages, this tool allows clients to write a function without worrying about scaling, devops, and a number of other things that are handled by Cloud Functions automatically. Customer feedback led to new features, and that’s how the second evolution of Cloud Functions came about. Don’t worry, first gen users! This will continue to be available and supported. Features in the 2nd gen fit into three categories: performance, cost, and control. Among other benefits, costs stay low or may even be reduced with some of the new features, larger instances and longer processing times mean better performance, and traffic splitting means better control over projects. Sara details an example illustrating the power of the new concurrency features, and Jaisen helps us understand when Cloud Functions is the right choice for your project and when it’s not. Our guests walk us through getting started with Cloud Functions and using the 2nd gen additions. Companies like Lucille Games are using Cloud Functions, and our guests talk more about how specific users are leveraging the new features of the 2nd gen. Jaisen Mathai Jaisen is a product manager for Cloud Functions. He’s been at Google for about six years and before joining Google was both a developer and product manager. Sara Ford Sara is a Cloud Developer Advocate focusing on Cloud Functions and enjoys working on serverless. Cool things of the week No pipelines needed. Stream data with Pub/Sub direct to BigQuery Cloud IAM Google Cloud The Diversity Annual Report is now a BigQuery public dataset Interview Cloud Functions Cloud Functions 2nd gen walkthrough Cloud Functions version comparison Lucille Games: Playing to win with Google Cloud Platform BigQuery Cloud Run Eventarc Cloud Shell GCP Podcast Episode 261: Full Stack Dart with Tony Pujals and Kevin Moore Working with Remote Functions Cloud Console Where should I run my stuff? Choosing compute options What’s something cool you’re working on? Stephanie has been working on . Hosts Stephanie Wong and Brian Dorsey /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/24015531

Vertex Explainable AI with Irina Sigler and Ivan Nardini 08/03/2022

Vertex Explainable AI with Irina Sigler and Ivan Nardini and new host are in the studio today talking about Vertex Explainable AI with guests Irina Sigler and . Vertex Explainable AI was born from a need for developers to better understand how their models determine classifications. Trusting the operation of models for business decision making and easier debugging are two reasons this classification understanding is so important. Explainable models help developers understand and describe how their trained models are making decisions. Google’s managed service, Vertex Explainable AI, offers Feature Attribution and Example Based Explanations to provide better understanding of model decision making. Irina describes these two services and how each works to foster better decision-making based on AI models. One or both services can be used in every stage of model building and to create a more precise model with better results. Example Based Explanations, Irina tells us, also makes it easier to explain the model to those who may not have strong technical backgrounds. Ivan runs us through a sample build of a model taking advantage of the Vertex Explainable AI tools. Presets provide easier setup and use as well. We talk more about the benefits of being able to easily explain your models. When decision-makers understand the importance of your AI tool, it’s more likely to be cleared for production, for example. When you understand why your model is making certain choices, you can trust the model’s outcomes as part of your decision-making process. Irina Sigler Irina Sigler is a Product Manager on the Vertex Explainable AI team. Before joining Google, Irina worked at McKinsey and did her Ph.D. in Explainable AI. She graduated from the Freie Universität Berlin and HEC Paris. Ivan Nardini is a customer engineer specialized in ML and passionate about Developer Advocacy and MLE. He is currently collaborating and enabling Data Science developers and practitioners to define and implement MLOps on Vertex AI. He also leads a worldwide hackathon community initiative and he is an active contributor in Google Cloud. Cool things of the week Unify data lakes and warehouses with BigLake, now generally available What it’s like to have a hybrid internship at Google Interview Vertex AI Explainable AI Vertex Explainable AI Vertex Explainable AI Notebooks Feature Attribution AI Explanations Whitepaper Explainable AI with Google Cloud Vertex AI Why you need to explain machine learning models What’s something cool you’re working on? Anu just got back from a nice vacation and is picking back up on how to use our AI APIs with Serverless workflows. She’s working on some exciting tutorials for our AI backed Translation API. Max just got back from family dance camp and is working to make excellent intern experiences. Hosts Max Saltonstall and Anu Srivastava /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/23948091

Arm Servers on GCP with Jon Masters and Emma Haruka Iwao 07/27/2022

Managed Service for Prometheus with Lee Yanco and Ashish Kumar 07/20/2022

Managed Service for Prometheus with Lee Yanco and Ashish Kumar Hosts and are in the studio this week! We’re talking about Prometheus with guests and and learning about the build process for Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Prometheus and how Home Depot uses this tool to power their business. To begin with, Lee helps us understand what Managed Service for Prometheus is. Prometheus, a popular monitoring solution for Kubernetes, lets you know that your project is up and running and in the event of a failure, Prometheus lets you know what happened. But as Kubernetes projects scale and spread across the globe, Prometheus becomes a challenge to manage, and that’s where Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Prometheus comes in. Lee describes why Prometheus is so great for Kubernetes, and Ashish talks about CNCF’s involvement helps open source tools integrate easily. With the help of Monarch, Google’s Managed Service stands above the competition, and Lee explains what Monarch is and how it works with Prometheus to benefit users. Ashish talks about Home Depot’s use of Google Cloud and the Managed Service for Prometheus, and how Home Depot’s multiple data centers make data monitoring both trickier and more important. With Google Cloud, Home Depot is able to easily ensure everything is healthy and running across data centers, around the world, at an immense scale. He describes how Home Depot uses Managed Service for Prometheus in each of these data center environments from the point of view of a developer and talks about how easy Prometheus and the Managed Service are to integrate and use. Lee and Ashish wrap up the show with a look at how Home Depot and Google have worked together to create and adjust tools for increased efficiency. In the future, tighter integration into the rest of Google Cloud’s suite of products is the focus. Lee Yanco is the Product Management lead for Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus. He also works on Monarch, Google’s planet-scale in-memory time series database, and on Cloud Monitoring’s Kubernetes observability experience. Ashish Kumar is Senior Manager for Site Reliability and Production Engineering for The Home Depot. Cool things of the week Cloud Next registration is open Introducing Parallel Steps for Workflows: Speed up workflow executions by running steps concurrently How to think about threat detection in the cloud GCP Podcast Episode 218: Chronicle Security with Dr. Anton Chuvakin and Ansh Patniak Interview Prometheus PromQL Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus Kubernetes CNCF Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database Cloud Monitoring Cloud Logging Google Cloud’s operations suite What’s something cool you’re working on? Carter is focusing on getting organized, managing overwhelm, and comedy festivals. Anthony is testing a few new exciting features, working with build provenance in , jobs and network file systems in . Hosts Carter Morgan and Anthony Bushong /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/23805908

Distributed Cloud Edge for Telcos with DP Ayyadevara and Krishna Garimella 07/13/2022

Distributed Cloud Edge for Telcos with DP Ayyadevara and Krishna Garimella and are back this week learning about Google’s Distributed Cloud Edge for telcos with guests and DP Ayyadevara. Launched last year, Google Distributed Cloud Edge has benefited companies across many industries. Today, our guests are here to elaborate on how telecommunications companies specifically are leveraging this powerful tool. Because telcos deliver essential services, they tend to create detailed plans for their infrastructure in advance and stick with this setup for many years, DP tells us. Identifying the right tools for their project is vital, and Google has created and improved on many services to aid the telecommunications sector. Contact Center AI, for example, helps with customer service needs. Specifically, our guests elaborate on the modernization of telco networks through managed infrastructure offerings. We learn more about Google Distributed Cloud Edge and the managed hardware and software stack that’s included. Container as a service for optimal network function is the first focus of Google in supporting telcos companies with Distributed Cloud and has been used for 5G rollouts. Google has been working behind the scenes to make Kubernetes more telco friendly as well, so that projects are more portable, scalable, and able to leverage Kubernetes benefits easily. Krishna gives us some great real-life examples of telecommunications companies using GDC Edge in areas like virtual broadband networks. In order to dedicate maximum resources to customer workloads, the team chose to keep the Kubernetes control plane in the cloud while worker nodes are at the edge. With superior security protection, minimal service disruption, and more, GDC Edge boasts fleet management as a core capability. In order to continue satisfying telco’s needs, Google collaborates with many businesses to grow with changing customer needs. Krishna Garimella is a technology evangelist who has worked with service providers across the globe in the network and media areas. DP Ayyadevara DP is the Product Group Product Manager leading Telco Network Modernization products and solutions at Google Cloud. Cool things of the week Cloud TPU v4 records fastest training times on five MLPerf 2.0 benchmarks Show off your cloud skills by completing the #GoogleClout weekly challenge Interview Distributed Cloud Distributed Cloud Edge Documentation Contact Center AI Kubernetes Anthos Nephio BigQuery Vertex AI What’s something cool you’re working on? Carter made a test for a video recap version of the recent pi episode. Stephanie recently made a as well and is working on an Alphafold video and the Cloud client library new reference docs homepage rollout. Hosts Carter Morgan and Stephanie Wong /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/23732594

Disaster Recovery with Cody Ault and Jo-Anne Bourne 06/29/2022

Disaster Recovery with Cody Ault and Jo-Anne Bourne Your hosts and talk with guests Cody Ault and Jo-Anne Bourne of Veeam. Veeam is revolutionizing the data space by minimizing data loss impacts and project downtime with easy backups and user-friendly disaster recovery solutions. As a software company, Veeam is able to stay flexible with its solutions, helping customers keep any project safe. Cody explains what is meant by disaster recovery and how different systems might require different levels of fail-safe protection. Jo-Anne talks about the financial cost of downtime and how Veeam can help save money by planning for and preventing downtime. Veeam backup and replication is the main offering that can be customized depending on workloads, Cody tells us. He gives examples of how this works for different types of projects. Businesses can easily make plans for recovery and data backups then implement them with the help of Veeam. Cody talks about cloud migration and how Veeam can streamline this process with its replication services, and Jo-Anne emphasizes the importance of these recovery processes for data in the cloud. The journey from fledgling Veeam to their current suite of offerings was an interesting one, and Cody talks about this evolution, starting with the simple VM backups of version 5. As companies have brought new recovery challenges, Veeam has grown to provide these services. Their partnership with Google has grown as well, as they continue to leverage Google offerings and support Google Cloud customers. We hear examples of Veeam customers and how they use the software, and Cody tells us a little about the future of Veeam. Cody Ault Cody has been at Veeam for over 11 years in various roles and departments including Technical Lead for US Support team, Advisory Architect for Presales Solutions Architect and Staff Solutions Architect for Product Management Alliances. He has acted as the performance, databases, security, and monitoring specialist for North America for the Presales team and has helped develop the Veeam Design Methodology and Architecture Documentation template. Cody is currently working with the Alliances team focusing on Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Red Hat. Jo-Anne Bourne Jo-Anne is a Partner Marketing Strategist who works with global companies to support them in positioning company products with their customer base. She is effective in developing strategic partnerships with International Resellers, CCaaS partners, Systems Integrators, OEM partners and ISV partnerships like Amazon, Microsoft, Avaya, Cisco, Five9, BT to develop strategies to enable sales teams to generate significant revenue and in turn, build profitability for the company. Jo-Anne is a brand steward successful in using analytics to create results-driven campaigns that increase brand awareness, generate sales leads, improve customer engagement and strengthen partner relationships. Cool things of the week Announcing general availability of reCAPTCHA Enterprise password leak detection Cloud Podcasts Bio-pharma organizations can now leverage the groundbreaking protein folding system, AlphaFold, with Vertex AI Interview Veeam Veeam for Google Cloud VeeamHub Google Cloud VMware Engine Cloud SQL Kasten Kubernetes GKE What’s something cool you’re working on? Carter is working on the new website. Max is working on research papers about how we built and deployed Google’s Zero Trust system for employees, . Kelci is working on creating a series of blog posts highlighting the benefits of having access to public data sets embedded within BigQuery. Hosts Carter Morgan and Max Saltonstall /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/23578289

Contact Center AI with Amit Kumar and Vasili Triant 06/22/2022

Contact Center AI with Amit Kumar and Vasili Triant This week on the GCP Podcast, and are joined by Amit Kumar and . Our guests are here to talk about new features in Contact Center AI. Amit starts the show helping us understand what Contact Center as a Service is and what makes this unified platform so useful for enterprise companies. The scalability helps keep costs down and overall satisfaction up while leveraging advances in cloud. UJET and Google Cloud have worked together to bring this AI advancement, and our guests describe the partnership and evolution CCAI. CCAI has streamlined the Contact Center as a Service space, helping businesses work efficiently and while putting an emphasis on positive experiences for the end customer. CCAI users can use the platform straight out of the box or customize it to build specific experiences with tools like Dialogflow. Amit further describes the tools available like Interactive Voice Response and for which circumstances each tool would be most useful. The journey to CCAI can be easily managed by a team who knows the business well. We learn more about the onboarding experience and the skills required to transition. Vasili talks about the past and future of Contact Center and how customer information is used not just for sales purposes but for bettering the customer service experience. Our guests share success stories from companies like FitBit and how CCAI is used to handle customer interactions through the app. Things like the call back feature save customers the time and frustration of waiting on hold and save businesses money. Amit Kumar Amit is responsible for bringing GCP’s native CCaaS offering to market and helps enterprise customers modernize their contact centers. Previously, Amit worked as a Cloud AI Incubator lead where he helped customers in adopting Google’s conversational AI technology. He also has an extensive background in large scale cloud transformational efforts and have worked with enterprise software companies mainly Salesforce and TIBCO Software. Vasili Triant As UJET’s Chief Operating Officer, oversees all Go To Market activities including Sales, Channel, Alliances, and Customer Success. Triant brings more than 20 years of experience in Telecoms, Unified Communications (UC), and Contact Center industries, having previously served as VP/GM of Contact Center at Cisco, where he achieved the fastest growth in over a decade through a focus on global alliances and enterprise cloud-readiness. Cool things of the week DALL-E mini EbSynth Announcing general availability of Confidential GKE Nodes Interview Contact Center AI Platform Contact Center AI reimagines the customer experience through full end-to-end platform expansion UJET Dialogflow Google Assistant One United Bank FitBit What’s something cool you’re working on? Max is working on expanding the by collecting and adding more content.Carter is working on his .Kelci has been working on . Hosts Carter Morgan and Max Saltonstall /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/23508710

New Pi World Record with Emma Haruka Iwao and Sara Ford 06/15/2022

New Pi World Record with Emma Haruka Iwao and Sara Ford and are working on their math skills today with guests and Sara Ford. What kind of computing power does it take to break the world record for pi computations? Emma and Sara are here to tell us. Emma tells us how she started with pi and how she and Sara came to work together to break the record. In 2019, Emma was on the show with her previous world record, and with the advancements in technology and Google products since, she knew she could do even more this year. Her 100 trillion digit goal wasn’t enough to scare people away, and Sara, along with other partners, joined Emma on the pi computation journey. Together, Sara and Emma talk about the hardware required, building the algorithm, how it’s run, and where the data is stored. Running on a personal computer was cheaper and easier than a super computer, and Emma explains why. Performing these immense calculations can also help illustrate just how far computers have come. The storage required for this project was immense, and Emma tells us how they worked around some of the storage limitations. We hear more about Ycruncher and how it was used to help with calculations. Our guests talk about how things might change for computing and specifically for pi computations in the next few years, and Sara tells us about the storage journey from the perspective of a mathematician, and gives us some interesting facts about the algorithms involved, and we learn how world records are verified. Emma Haruka Iwao is a developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform, focusing on application developers’ experience and high performance computing. She has been a C++ developer for 15 years and worked on embedded systems and the Chromium Project. Emma is passionate about learning and explaining the most fundamental technologies such as operating systems, distributed systems, and internet protocols. Besides software engineering, she likes games, traveling, and eating delicious food. Sara Ford Sara Ford is a Developer Advocate on Google Cloud focusing on Serverless. She received a Masters degree in Human Factors (UX) because she wants to make dev tools more usable. Her lifelong dream is to be a 97-year old weightlifter so she can be featured on the local news. Cool things of the week New Cloud Podcasts Website Even more pi in the sky: Calculating 100 trillion digits of pi on Google Cloud Interview GCP Podcast Episode 167: World Pi Day with Emma Haruka Iwao pi.delivery 100 Trillion Digits pi.delivery Github A History of Pi Distributing historically linear calculations of Pi with serverless Ycruncher Compute Engine Cloud Functions SRE Terraform What’s something cool you’re working on? Carter and Brian are working on a new season of Hosts Carter Morgan and Brian Dorsey /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/23437895

FinOps with Joe Daly 06/08/2022

FinOps with Joe Daly On the podcast this week, guest Joe Daly tells , , and our listeners all about FinOps principles and how they’re helping companies take advantage of the cloud while saving their bottom lines. He describes FinOps as financial DevOps, making financial decisions in an effective and optimized way. With his experience in finance and tax accounting, Joe has developed a special knack for navigating the sometimes confusing world of cloud finance policies, and his contributions to the FinOps Foundation have been many. For starters, collaboration with various business departments is important for developing a plan that leverages the benefits of the cloud but keeps the company using resources wisely, Joe explains. He talks about the FinOps Foundation and their focus on creating community for knowledge sharing. By fostering collaboration among different company roles and promoting financial education, companies are better able to determine financial goals while making sure each facet of the company reaps all the benefits of cloud participation. Following the FinOps cycle is the easiest way for community members to get started. The three steps, Joe tells us, are inform, optimize, and operate. The inform phase involves clarity in spending so teams understand how much money is being spent. In the optimize phase, benefits of spending are matched with expenditures to ensure resources are being used to their full potential. Finally, in the operate phase, engineers and finance managers come together to understand why solutions were chosen and understand if these tools are offering the right answers for the company. Every company is different but the sooner it’s possible to start the FinOps journey the easier it will be to maintain in the future. Joe gives us examples of how companies are using the principles for successful strategies and the challenges that some of them have faced. The Foundation has monthly summits that offer perspectives from these companies as well as partner presentations. The FinOpsX conference is coming up soon as well. To wrap up, Joe offers other resources from the FinOps Foundation, including his podcast. Joe Daly Joe set up two FinOps teams at Fortune 100 companies. He joined the FinOps Foundation and has been setting up the ambassador program, supporting meetup groups, and producing FinOpsPod. Cool things of the week AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Columnar engine GCP Podcast Episode 304: AlloyDB with Sandy Ghai and Gurmeet “GG” Goindi How Google Cloud is helping more startups build, grow, and scale their businesses Automate identity document processing with Document AI Interview FinOps Foundation FinOpsX FinOpsPod Cloud FinOps: The Secret To Unlocking The Economic Potential Of Public Cloud Maximize Business Value with Cloud FinOps Unlocking the value of cloud FinOps with a new operating model Hosts Stephanie Wong and Mark Mirchandani /episode/index/show/googlecloudpodcast/id/23359322

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