First-time host, Aja, joins Mark today to talk Go Cloud Functions with two Google colleagues! Stewart, lead Product Manager on Google Cloud Functions, and Tyler, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, start the show by explaining the purpose of Cloud Functions. It is a serverless compute product that supports many programming languages, scales automatically, and only charges for what you use. It works best as event-driven computing, in other words, when something happens, you want something else to happen in response. Cloud Functions also works well between clouds or even Google Cloud services, acting as the glue between them.

Go Cloud Functions works specifically for Go. Google makes a huge effort to make Cloud Functions easy to use for all developers, so that no matter what language you’re familiar with, Cloud Functions works for you.

Stewart Reichling

Stewart Reichling is the lead Product Manager on Google Cloud Functions. He is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and has worked across Strategy, Marketing, and Product Management at Google.

Tyler Bui-Palsulich

Tyler is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google. He graduated with his Master’s in Computer Science from NYU and loves detailed documentation, random trivia, and homemade bread. You can find his blog at buipalsulich.com

Cool things of the week

Actually cool thing of the week twitter
NoSQL for the serverless age: Announcing Cloud Firestore general availability and updates blog
Site Reliability Workbook now available in HTML site
Building a serverless online game: Cloud Hero on Google Cloud Platform blog
The tech industry is failing people with disabilities and chronic illnesses article

Interview

GCP Podcast Episode 34: Stackdriver monitoring with Aja Hammerly podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 53: Ruby with Aja Hammerly podcast
Cloud Functions site
Cloud Scheduler site
Firestore site
Pub/Sub site
Go Mod site
App Engine site
Open Census site
GCP Podcast Episode 118: OpenCensus with Morgan McLean and JBD podcast
Google Stackdriver site
Launch/overview video video
The Go Runtime site
Cloud Functions Quickstarts site

Question of the week

How many ways can you run containers on GCP?

Where can you find us next?

Mark will be at GDC in March, Cloud NEXT, and ECG in April. Agones has a new website agones.dev! And he’s also back to Twitch streaming!

Aja will be at Cloud NEXT in April.

Go Cloud Functions with Stewart Reichling and Tyler Bui-Palsulich

Google Cloud Platform Podcast