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 < 1 min. tweet

Interview

Resources:

• grpc.io
• gRPC on GitHub
• Mailing list for gRPC: grpc-io@googlegroups.com
• 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