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End of Year Wrap-up

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Happy Holidays, everyone! Melanie and Mark wrap up a great year by reminiscing about some of their favorite episodes! We also talk about the big news of the year, our favorite articles, and whatโ€™s coming up for the GCP Podcast in 2019.

Cool things of the week
  • Kubernetes and GKE for developers: a year of Cloud Console blog
  • Reducing gender bias in Google Translate blog
  • Cloud Security Command Center is now in beta and ready to use blog
Main content
  • Podcast accomplishments!

    • We have awesome new intro and outro music, new website, new YouTube videos!
    • We hit 1 million and then 2 million downloads!
    • Mark and the podcast are celebrating their three year anniversary!
  • Top 10 most downloaded episodes of all time!

    1. GCP Podcast Episode 111: Google Cloud Platform with Sam Ramji podcast
    2. GCP Podcast Episode 112: Percy.io with Mike Fotinakis podcast
    3. GCP Podcast Episode 146: Google AI with Jeff Dean podcast
    4. GCP Podcast Episode 127: SRE vs Devops with Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo podcast
    5. GCP Podcast Episode 128: Decision Intelligence with Cassie Kozyrkov podcast
    6. GCP Podcast Episode 113: Open Source TensorFlow with Yifei Feng podcast
    7. GCP Podcast Episode 88: Kubernetes 1.7 with Tim Hockin podcast
    8. GCP Podcast Episode 108: Launchpad Studio with Malika Cantor and Peter Norvig podcast
    9. GCP Podcast Episode 130: Data Science with Juliet Hougland and Michelle Casbon podcast
    10. GCP Podcast Episode 125: Open Source at Google Cloud Platform with Sarah Novotny podcast
  • Top 10 most downloaded episodes for 2018!

    • Exact same list except Tim Hockin is not #7. Following episodes go up a number and we added to #10 spot.
    • GCP Podcast Episode 122: Project Jupyter with Jessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris Holdgraf podcast
  • Markโ€™s favorite episodes

    • GCP Podcast Episode 129: Developer Relations with Mandy Waite podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 121: Kontributing to Kubernetes with Paris Pittman and Garrett Rodrigues podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 131: Actions on Google with Mandy Chan podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 148: Wellio with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 110: CPU Vulnerability with Matt Linton and Paul Turner podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 125: Open Source at Google Cloud Platform with Sarah Novotny podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 140: Container Security with Maya Kaczorowski podcast
  • Melanieโ€™s favorite episodes

    • GCP Podcast Episode 117: Cloud AI Fei-Fei Li was the Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 114: ML Bias & Fairness with Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 141: Accessibility in Tech podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 136: Robotics with Raia podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 150: Strange Loop, Remote Working, and Distributed Systems with KF podcast
    • DL Indaba
      • GCP Podcast Episode 147: DL Indaba: AI Investments in Africa podcast
      • GCP Podcast Episode 149: Deep Learning Research in Africa with Yabebal Fantaye & Jessica Phalafala podcast
      • GCP Podcast Episode 152: AI Corporations and Communities in Africa with Karim Beguir & Muthoni Wanyoike podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 157: NeurIPS and AI Research with Anima Anandkumar podcast
  • Favorite announcements, products, and more at Google Cloud

    • Unity and Google Cloud Strategic Alliance blog
    • Cloud TPU site
    • Google Dataset Search is in beta site
    • No tricks, just treats: Globally scaling the Halloween multiplayer Doodle with Open Match on Google Cloud blog
    • GKE On-Prem site
    • Open Source - Knative release, Skaffold, Istio updates, gVisor, etc.
    • Google in Ghana blog
    • Cloud NEXT blog
      • GCP Podcast Episode 137: Next Day 1 podcast
      • GCP Podcast Episode 138: Next Day 2 podcast
      • GCP Podcast Episode 139: Next Day 3 podcast
    • Unity and DeepMind partner to advance AI research blog
    • Introducing PyTorch across Google Cloud blog
Question of the week

What were your personal highlights for 2018?

  • Mark

    • Agones
    • Introducing Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting built on Kubernetes blog github
    • The new website
    • Having Melanie join me on the podcast
  • Melanie

    • Bringing Francesc back
    • Meeting Grace
    • GCP Podcast Episode 142: Agones With Mark Mandel and Cyril Tovena podcast
Where can you find us next?

Itโ€™s the holidays!

Special thanks!
  • Thank you guests
  • Thank you Jennifer
  • Thank you HD Interactive: James, Trae, Sabrina, and Sean
  • Thank you Greg
  • Thank you Neil, Chuck, and Shana
  • Thank you MBooth for the website overhaul and social media support
  • Thank you Francesc
  • Thank you listeners!

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