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In the fifteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc) and Mark) interview Varun Talwar). Varun is a product manager in charge of gRPC, an open source project created at Google that helps you build distributed systems like we do internally at Google. About Varun Varun is a product manager in Google Cloud team and has recently taken on gRPC. Prior to this he was responsible for Google Cloud Launcher), a launchpad to easily spin up popular software images on Google Compute Engine. He is a long time Googler who has previously worked on YouTube, Maps and Adsense.
Follow Varun on Twitter @varungyan). Cool thing of the week 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 tweet)
Interview Resources:
- grpc.io)
- gRPC on GitHub)
- Mailing list for gRPC: [email protected])
- Take a REST with HTTP/2, Protobufs, and Swagger blog)
- Protocol Buffers docs)
- etcd: distributed key-value store with grpc/http2 blog)
- Flatbuffers docs)
- Game on! Flatbuffers video)
- thrift docs)
Question of the week Special guests Sara Robinson) and David East).
- Firebase authentication with email and password docs)
- Firebase authData for iOS docs)
- Firebase UI for Android) and iOS)