In this episode, Google Play Marketing is the customer of Google Cloud Platform. Melanie and Mark chat with Dom Elliott (Google Play) and Stewart Bryson (Red Pill Analytics) about how they use our big data processing and visualisation tools to introspect what is happening in the Google play ecosystem.

Dom Elliott

Dom Elliott leads global developer marketing communications for Google Play. His goal is to help Android app and game developers improve their app quality and business performance on Google Play, by raising awareness and understanding of features that can help them find success.

Stewart Bryson

Stewart Bryson is the Owner & Co-founder of Red Pill Analytics, a products and services company specializing in Cloud Analytics delivery. Red Pill is 4 years old and has about 30 employees in the US, UK and Brazil. We work with customers to accelerate their use of the public cloud for analytics, including migrating current on-premises workloads. Red Pill Analytics was engaged by Google Play to build the digital channel ingestion processes, as well as build all the Data Studio content for analyzing those channels.

Cool things of the week

Easy distributed training with TensorFlow using tf.estimator.train_and_evaluate on Cloud ML Engine blog
CI/CD with Less Fluff & More Awesome blog
96 vCPU Compute Engine instances are now generally available announcement site

Interview

Google Play site
Google Data Studio site docs
Adding charts to Data Studio docs
Google BigQuery Data Transfer Service site docs
Google App Engine site docs
Cloud Cloud PubSub site docs
Cloud Functions site docs
Google Cloud Pub/Sub Triggers docs tutorial
Cloud Natural Language site docs

Google Play

Question of the week

If you want to be able to unit test your integrations with Kubernetes with client-go, how can you mock what happens inside the cluster in your unit tests?

fake.Clientset godoc code example
testing.Fake godoc

Where can you find us next?

Melanie will be at Fat* in New York very shortly!

Mark will be at the Game Developer’s Conference | GDC in March.

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Google Play Marketing with Dom Elliott and Stewart Bryson