A Year in Review

In the last episode for 2016, Mark and Francesc look at all their favourite moments from this year, including their favourite episodes, guests and Cool Things of the Week.

Cool thing of the week

• Google partners with Improbable to support next generation of video games blog
• Announcing new Google Cloud Client Libraries for four key services blog
• Kubernetes 1.5: Supporting Production Workloads blog

Favourite Episodes Top Downloaded Episodes

• #46: Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes gcppodcast.com
• #44: Cloud Endpoints with Dan Ciruli and Sepehr Ebrahimzadeh gcppodcast.com
• #31: TensorFlow with Eli Bixby gcppodcast.com
• #37: GKE 1.3 with Carter Morgan gcppodcast.com
• #43: gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips gcppodcast.com

Mark's Favourites

• #19: GCP Next Speakers gcppodcast.com
• #23: Humble Bundle with Andy Oxfeld gcppodcast.com
• #52: Google Developer Experts Summit gcppodcast.com

Francesc's Favourites

• #25: Go on the Cloud with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot gcppodcast.com
• #38: Site Reliability Engineering with Paul Newson gcppodcast.com
• #43: gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips gcppodcast.com

Favourite Cool Things of the Week Francesc's Favourites

Spotify is now on Google Cloud Platform:

• Spotify chooses Google Cloud Platform to power data infrastructure blog
• Announcing Spotify Infrastructure's Googley Future blog
• Google's BigQuery is da bomb - I can start with 2.2Billion 'things' and compute/summarize down to 20K in < 1 min. tweet

Kubernetes and Google Container Engine

• Kubernetes 1.3 on tap for Google Container Engine blog
• Google Container Engine now on Kubernetes 1.4 blog
• Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog

Education:

• CP100A: Google Cloud Platform Foundations courses
• New Google Cloud Platform Education Grants offer free credits to students blog
• Kubernetes class on Udacity blog

Mark's Favourites

Multiple General Availabilities

• Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are now generally available blog
• Cloud Router docs
• Cloud CDN docs
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) docs

Machine Learning and Big Data

• How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow blog
• Decoding the micro-moments of baseball: can you hear the game through data? blog
• Introducing Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API open beta and our West Coast region expansion blog
• Powering geospatial analysis: public geo datasets now on Google Cloud blog
• Introducing the Open Images Dataset blog

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We'll be back on January 18th, 2017 - See you all then!