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

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