DREA ALFONSO: Hey, everyone, and welcome to Google Cloud Next
2017, coming to you live from San Francisco.
I'm Drea Alphonso, a program manager on our Google Education
Team, and host of the "G Suite Show."
TIMOTHY JORDAN: And I'm Timothy Jordan, a developer advocate
and host of "The Dev Show."
We're incredibly excited to be here today and have you
along for the ride.
DREA ALFONSO: Cloud Next is an event
that brings together executives, customers, partners,
engineers to help build the future of the cloud.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: And there are over 200 sessions--
DREA ALFONSO: Ooh, a lot of sessions.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: --on Google Cloud Platform, G Suite, Maps,
Devices, and more, many of which will
be available on this Livestream channel
over the next three days or on Google Cloud's YouTube channel
later in the week.
DREA ALFONSO: And while you're tuned in with us,
we'll be giving you a sneak peek of what's going on at Next.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: And then we'll hand you over
to our keynote speakers, who will
discuss Google Cloud offerings today and a vision
for the future.
We'll also hear about how our clients and partners are
embracing the cloud.
DREA ALFONSO: And while Timothy and I are here
in San Francisco, we have a huge global community
joining us live as well.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: In fact, leading up to the event
we asked a few of them to say hi.
Take a look.
(ALL): Hello from Manila, Philippines!
Whoo!
(ALL): Hi!
(ALL): Hello from [INAUDIBLE].
(ALL): [INAUDIBLE]
(ALL): Hello from Hong Kong.
[INAUDIBLE]
TIMOTHY JORDAN: And those are just a few
of the many groups tuning into the live stream today.
In fact, there are more than 400 viewing parties
watching right now.
DREA ALFONSO: That's right.
And people all over the world are gathering for Cloud Next.
We have Dubai, Taipei, Botswana, and Warsaw, just to name a few.
Pretty much on every continent, we've got you covered.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: What a cool global experience right, Drea?
DREA ALFONSO: Totally, totally.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: OK, so what's next?
DREA ALFONSO: So let's see, we've
said hello, they've said hello.
What else we got?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Well, how about we
give everyone joining in remotely an idea of what
it feels like to be on the ground at Moscone Center in San
Francisco right now?
DREA ALFONSO: You know what?
I like that idea.
Let's check in with someone here right now, actually.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Let's see.
There's Dave.
Dave, would you come over here for a moment?
DAVE RENSIN: Hey, guys.
DREA ALFONSO: Hello.
DAVE RENSIN: How is everyone doing?
DREA ALFONSO: Good.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: We're having a great time so far.
How are you?
DAVE RENSIN: It's awesome.
It's crazy how big this is.
DREA ALFONSO: It is.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: So for those of you on the Livestream
that don't know Dave, could you tell them who you are
and what you work on?
DAVE RENSIN: Oh sure.
My name's Dave Rensin.
I work on a thing called Customer
Reliability Engineering.
It's a group of Google SREs, the people who
keep our cloud up and reliable.
Actually going on call and working with customers
to keep their applications up and reliable.
It's kind of a new thing in the industry.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Which is interesting,
because reliability has got to be so key to cloud.
DAVE RENSIN: The basic religion is
that reliability is the most important feature of a cloud.
Because who cares about the rest of it if can't count on it?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: What are some of the most
exciting or interesting problems that your team has encountered?
DAVE RENSIN: I think I'll tell you
the thing that has been the most awesome and surprising
in a good way, is I thought when we
started this we'd get a lot of resistance,
particularly from larger companies about wanting
to make the sort of changes you have to make to get
that kind of reliability.
Turns out they're really hungry for it.
And so it's been actually keeping up with demand.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Awesome.
Well, one last question before we get going.
DREA ALFONSO: And what are you most excited
about for the future of the cloud
and what's happening at Next?
DAVE RENSIN: Well, I'll tell you the sessions
I'm most excited about here at Next are two of them.
12:30 we have an SRE war stories.
And then tomorrow a roundtable with the founding fathers
of SRE.
That's going to be awesome.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Awesome, Dave.
Thanks so much for joining us.
DAVE RENSIN: Thank you both.
DREA ALFONSO: All right.
Thanks, Dave.
Have a great one.
All right, so great chatting with Dave.
And there's so many cool things going on today.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: So many people coming together
in collaboration around Google Cloud.
DREA ALFONSO: And you know what?
I had a chance earlier to meet up
with some of our session speakers
and chat with them about cool engineering topics that
will be covered today.
One of those things was about the internet of things.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: I love the internet of things.
So let's get to that, but when we get back, we'll find,
let's say, a cool demo to check out.
DREA ALFONSO: Sounds like a plan.
Yes.
Hey, everyone.
I'm here with Indranil, who'll be leading
a few sessions on IoT at Next.
So he came by the studios to give us a little sneak peek
of what we can expect.
So Indranil, thanks for joining us here today.
As mentioned, you'll be doing quite a few sessions on IoT
at Next.
Can you talk to us a little bit more about what those are?
INDRANIL CHAKRABORTY: Sure, we have two sessions on IoT
at Next, two breakout sessions.
One is called Developing IoT Solution on Google Cloud.
And second is IoT and Cloud for Industry Applications.
DREA ALFONSO: Got it.
And before we dive into that, what do you do at Google?
INDRANIL CHAKRABORTY: So I'm a product manager
with Google Cloud.
And my job really is to do anything and everything
to build great products which delights customer.
So I work with customers to understand their needs.
I work with our engineering team very closely,
UX Design Team, Partnership Team.
So we're building features which customers can really value.
DREA ALFONSO: And for talking about IoT at Next,
why is that important?
Why is that important to bring those types of sessions
to folks?
INDRANIL CHAKRABORTY: I think IoT is at an inflection point.
We're seeing lot of our customers
across manufacturing, retail, even logistics
building really interesting solution on Google Cloud.
So we think that we really want to share
with a broader audience what we think internally,
how we think about IoT internally, and also share
the products we have on Cloud as well as on the device
side, which developers can use to build
really scalable applications.
DREA ALFONSO: And you mentioned an interesting solution
with IoT.
Can you give us a sneak peek in terms
of what are some of those interesting solutions
that you're seeing manufacturing companies develop?
INDRANIL CHAKRABORTY: Yes.
In fact, in one of the sessions, one of our customer
is going to explain and getting deeper
into a very interesting solution they
have built with manufacturing clients
where you can look across all the different factories
and the manufacturing processes, remotely monitor it,
get real-time insights across all of your factories.
So we think there's a lot of value there.
DREA ALFONSO: Awesome.
And so when we're talking about the future of IoT,
what are you most excited about?
INDRANIL CHAKRABORTY: Yeah, I'm really
excited the intersection of IoT and machine learning.
If you think about what we have done with our own data centers,
we've collected vast amounts of data
from chillers, coolers, and our HVAC system,
outside temperature, the humidity and wind speed.
And we've collected all this data
and we've built machine learning models, which has effectively
improved, significantly improved our power utilization
efficiency.
So I think there will be a lot more applications
at this intersection.
And that's really interesting over the next couple of years.
DREA ALFONSO: Well thanks Indranil for joining us today.
And definitely looking forward to checking out the session
online.
INDRANIL CHAKRABORTY: Great, thank you.
DREA ALFONSO: Thanks.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: We're here now with Terry.
Terry, could you tell the Livestream how you are
and what you do?
TERRENCE RYAN: Hi, my names Terry Ryan.
I'm a developer advocate for Google Cloud platform.
And my job is to basically go around
and talk to people about Google Cloud
and try to encourage developers to be
successful in our platform.
DREA ALFONSO: Cool.
So we're here in front of a wall of pie.
But most importantly, we're in front of the compute pi
cruncher.
Tell us what's going on in front of us here.
TERRENCE RYAN: So one of the key things about Google Clouds VMs
is that you can pick very discrete amounts of processor
memory.
You don't have to choose between 8 and 16, if what you need
is 14 processors.
So this allows you to spin up a custom VM to as many processors
as much memory as you want.
And we're going to have it do a job which
is compute digits of pi.
So we can run this whole process.
And you go from having no VM to having a that's actually
done work catcalling pi, 100 million digits
in usually around a minute.
You can do thing from nothing to 100 million digits of pi.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: I think that's just incredible that Google
Cloud is computing 100 million digits of pi,
and you're spinning everything up with just this one
button here.
TERRENCE RYAN: It's pretty cool.
Our web UI maybe a little bit more clicks,
but we could get it down to just this one button to do that.
It's pretty exciting.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: And actually that's
my favorite thing about the Google Cloud Platform
is how easily you can scale with your business.
TERRENCE RYAN: That is I think one of the key differentiators.
And the fact that you can make sure you
get as exactly as many resources as you need without having
to go over, you save money.
That's good too.
DREA ALFONSO: So in addition to the pi cruncher,
what are some other exciting things that we should make sure
that we're checking out here at the showcase?
TERRENCE RYAN: Well, I'm a big fan of the whack-a-pod machine.
So whack-a-mole, but you're killing
servers instead of moles.
We also have some great things in machine learning.
The robotic candy sorter and dispensers
are one of my favorites.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Awesome.
We'll have to check that out.
Indeed we will.
Terry, thank you so much for joining us.
TERRENCE RYAN: Thanks for having me.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: So we'd like to talk to a couple more folks.
We know them as Mark and Francesc.
You know them as the host of the Google Cloud Podcast.
Here we are with Mark and Francesc of the GCP podcast.
How you all doing?
MARK MANDEL: Doing great.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Doing great.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: So why don't we just start out
with a very simple and straightforward question.
What is the podcast?
MARK MANDEL: So the podcast is a weekly audio content
that Francesc and I put together once a week.
And we do interviews with program managers, engineers,
customers, a variety of people across Google
and outside of Google to talk about how they use Google
platform and the lessons they've learned,
and the cool stuff that they can tell people about it.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Yeah, sounds pretty much right.
DREA ALFONSO: In addition to what
you guys are doing with the cloud podcast,
what else do you guys do here?
FRANCESC CAMPOY: So we are developer advocates.
So basically I'd say that the developer advocate, what
they do is they kind of go around the world talking
about Google technology.
And then if they hear good or bad feedback,
they go back to the product manager and [INAUDIBLE]
and they get the feedback back basically.
MARK MANDEL: I've heard professional sticker
distributor, professional mingler.
DREA ALFONSO: Stickers are popular.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: We carry t-shirts too.
MARK MANDEL: Yeah, lots of t-shirts.
DREA ALFONSO: You missed the t-shirt memo.
No, I'm joking.
I'm kidding.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Can I still be at the party?
So I think developer advocates do a little more too.
What would you say is your motto for develop advocacy?
MARK MANDEL: So for me, I would say quite literally
it is our job to advocate for developers.
It was our job inside Google to basically go out in the world,
interact with the external developers who
use Google platform, and then be able to be internally be
able to say, hey, we represent the interests
and the experience of those external developers
to our internal product managers,
especially in engineering, so that they have
that sort of conduit of communication
to the outside developers.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: I'd say in three words
like make developers happy.
MARK MANDEL: Love it.
DREA ALFONSO: And I am assuming that the podcast is a great way
to reach people.
But how did you guys come up with the idea
to do a Google Cloud podcast?
FRANCESC CAMPOY: So I've been Google for way
longer than Mark.
DREA ALFONSO: How long is way long?
FRANCESC CAMPOY: I think I could go for six years.
And I was not a developer advocate before.
But I joined developer advocacy.
Ad And I always liked podcasts, so I
was thinking about doing one.
And I was like, this is way too much work.
ALFONSO: Can't do it by myself.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Yeah.
And Mark joined.
MARK MANDEL: Yep.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: And he was like, we should do a podcast.
And I was like, that's a good idea.
[LAUGHTER]
So yeah, that's pretty much--
MARK MANDEL: That's pretty much it.
Yeah.
MARK MANDEL: Yep.
DREA ALFONSO: Started with an idea.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Yeah.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: There you go.
And how many episodes so far?
FRANCESC CAMPOY: 61 today.
MARK MANDEL: Yeah.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: 61.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Yeah.
MARK MANDEL: Yeah.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: 61.
MARK MANDEL: So we passed one year of content
a little while ago.
So it's been pretty good.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Yay party.
MARK MANDEL: Yeah and the response
has been really, really positive from listeners and everyone
involved.
So it's been really great.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Now y'all are going to be on the ground
at Next doing something really great for all the viewers out
there.
What is it?
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Yeah so the idea is
that we're going to be in the middle of Club Next asking
questions to speakers and attendees
and basically trying to give everyone
a taste of what the Cloud Next is
and then releasing that as a bunch of episodes.
I don't know how many of them but--
MARK MANDEL: It should be interesting.
We did it last year.
It was really successful.
I think we're going to get a repeat this year again.
Hopefully-- last year we have some content
of people rapping that we never released.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Oh, yeah.
MARK MANDEL: Maybe we could do that again this year.
I still think that we--
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Some Spotify engineers rapping for us.
That was pretty cool.
MARK MANDEL: Yeah.
DREA ALFONSO: Oh, that would be cool to hear.
I wanna hear that.
MARK MANDEL: We've been doing that for a rainy day,
but if we--
TIMOTHY JORDAN: You're talking like Cloud platform freestyle.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Yeah.
MARK MANDEL: Absolutely.
Freestyle rap.
Absolutely.
Yeah, if we can get content on that level
again I feel like that's going to be great for everyone
outside of Next and unfortunately couldn't
be able to attend to be able to get really
a good taste of what happens.
DREA ALFONSO: And for the folks that
are going to be tuning in to the live stream
to see Cloud Next how do they get in touch
or get the sessions you guys will be hosting.
They're going to be on the podcast?
FRANCESC CAMPOY: So the sessions we're
going to be hosting during the event they
will be all recorded.
So that's cool.
You can watch it later on.
And for our podcast they will be available whenever
we have time to edit them.
At gcppodcast.com or cloud.google.com/podcast.
DREA ALFONSO: And then in addition to
being advocates and getting out there and talking to folks,
do you guys also do like developing the side
in your role in Google?
Or is it just more so advocating about it.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Yeah, we do development.
I mean, it's hard to be a developer advocate
without being a developer.
DREA ALFONSO: That's true.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Nah, like there's
people that do it, right?
But like the empathy of like, oh I
feel your pain, that is very important.
So yeah we write a lot of code.
A lot mostly for fun.
MARK MANDEL: Yeah.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Yeah.
Like demos and like what did you do?
Like a paddle sucker?
MARK MANDEL: Yeah my most recent thing
is like a paddle multiplayer game.
I made Happy, Angry, Surprised which
was Rock, Paper, Scissors but with people's facial emotions.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Yeah that was fun.
MARK MANDEL: Yeah so we did a lot of silly stuff
with thousands of servers in the Cloud.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: That's excellent.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Silly highly scalable things.
MARK MANDEL: Yeah.
But it's OK.
As long as it can be played by millions of people at once
it's fine.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: OK.
One more very personal question--
coolest engineering moment in all of history.
Go.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: You go.
MARK MANDEL: So I think when the Mars Rover landed.
Like the stuff that they had to do.
I have no idea how to get like the jet propulsion
to happen in reverse so that they could land properly
and they actually managed to do it to make the Curiosity Rover
land.
Like, I watched that whole thing with just absolute fascination.
I was completely and utterly enthralled.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Hmm.
That is hard to top.
Yeah I'm going to go with the first phone call
because I think that actually changed the world.
Yeah, like the first time that someone got a phone
and was like, hello.
And someone on the other side said hello.
That's pretty amazing.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: All right.
Before we get going, give us all the addresses.
Where to get the podcast, where you get in touch with y'all.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: We do this all the time on the podcast.
MARK MANDEL: We do.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: So what is the website?
MARK MANDEL: gcppodcast.com
FRANCESC CAMPOY: We have an email.
MARK MANDEL: Hello@gcppodcast.com.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: We're on Twitter.
MARK MANDEL: @Gcppodcast.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Google+.
MARK MANDEL: +Gcppodcast.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: And also on Reddit.
MARK MANDEL: /R/gcppodcast.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: And finally on Slack.
MARK MANDEL: Slack you can find us on the hash podcast channel
at bit.ly/gcp-slack.
Less
FRANCESC CAMPOY: There you go.
DREA ALFONSO: You guys have done that a few times.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Oh, yeah.
DREA ALFONSO: Thanks, Mark and Francesc.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yeah, thank you both.
FRANCESC CAMPOY: Thank you
MARK MANDEL: Thank you.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: I love hanging out with those guys.
The best part was hearing about their favorite engineering
moments from all history.
DREA ALFONSO: Totally.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: OK, so we're just a few minutes away
from the Keynote.
DREA ALFONSO: I think so.
Maybe it's time to let everybody know what to expect?
Perhaps a sneak peek of what will be covered?
DREA ALFONSO: You know what, I think it's about that time.
So for the keynote today we'll be
hearing from Diane Greene, SVP of Google
Cloud on a recap of 2016 and what's next for Google in 2017.
And Sundar Pichai Google CEO on how
we're bringing all of Google to Enterprise customers.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: And then Diane is
going to be back to explore how our customers are using Google
Cloud products across their companies
to innovate everywhere from security to analytics
to machine learning.
We'll hear testimonials from several Google Cloud customers
who will be on the stage with Diane.
DREA ALFONSO: Oh.
Then next we'll do a deep dive into machine learning
for the enterprise with Fei-Fei Lee, Chief Scientist of Cloud
AI and machine learning.
And finally, we'll hear some closing remarks
from Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: OK now I'm really getting excited.
DREA ALFONSO: Me too.
And it looks like folks are just starting to get seated.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Well, before we hand you over to the big stage,
I'd like to let you know that Drea and I will be back
tomorrow before the keynote with day one in review
and more exclusive interviews that you won't want to miss.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on the future of the Cloud
or answer any questions for you while we're here
with all the experts.
You can find us on Twitter.
Our handles are on your screen.
Enjoy the show.
And we'll see you tomorrow.
DREA ALFONSO: See ya.