Google Cloud Spin with Ray Tsang and Bret McGowen

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

• Episode: Google Cloud Spin with Ray Tsang and Bret McGowen
• Website: Google Cloud Platform Podcast
• Feed URL: https://feeds.feedburner.com/GcpPodcast
• Duration: 00:36:36
• Published: 2016-02-10 02:07

In the twelfth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Ray Tsang and Bret McGowen, two Developer Advocates for the Google Cloud Platform, about the Google Cloud Spin, a project demoing the capabilities of Google Cloud Platform.

About Ray

Ray is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. Ray had extensive hands on cross-industry enterprise systems integration delivery and management experiences during his time at Accenture, managed full stack application development, DevOps, and ITOps. Ray specialized in middleware, big data, and PaaS products during his time at Red Hat while contributing to open source projects, such as Infinispan. Aside from technology, Ray enjoys traveling and adventures.

Follow Ray on Twitter @saturnism.

About Bret

Prior to Google, Bret came from Texas, having worked in the cloud industry at Rackspace as a software engineer building the RackConnect hybrid hosting product. Before that, he led engineering teams at e-commerce, non-profit and startup companies. He’s often on the running trail, volleyball court or kickball field.

Bret earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Texas A&M University.

Follow Bret on Twitter at @bretmcg.

Cool thing of the week

• Cloud9 IDE now supports Google Cloud Platform
  

Interview

Cloud Spin resources:

• Google Cloud Spin blog posts: one, two, and three.
• Google Cloud Spin videos with Coffee with a Googler: one, and two.
• The Making of Google Cloud Spin video.
• Google Cloud Spin on Twitter: @googlecloudspin.

Cloud Spin libraries and features used:

• Firebase, an amazing platform that provides synchronization to Cloud Spin.
• Google Cloud Storage Object Notifications docs.
• FFmpeg, a cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
• MoviePy, a Python module for video editing.
• Google Cloud Spin code on GitHub.

Question of the week

• Kubernetes Daemon Sets