Mark and Melanie are joined by Sarah Novotny, Head of Open Source Strategy for Google Cloud Platform, to talk all about Open Source, the Cloud Native Compute Foundation and their relationships to Google Cloud Platform.

Sarah Novotny

Sarah Novotny leads an Open Source Strategy group for Google Cloud Platform. She has long been an Open Source community champion in communities such as Kubernetes, NGINX and MySQL and ran large scale technology infrastructures at Amazon before web-scale had a name. In 2001, she co-founded Blue Gecko, which was sold to DatAvail in 2012. She is a program chair emeritus for O’Reilly Media’s OSCON.

Cool things of the week

Now live in Tokyo: using TensorFlow to predict taxi demand blog
Kubernetes best practices: Organizing with Namespaces blog youtube
Announcing Open Images V4 and the ECCV 2018 Open Images Challenge blog dataset challenge
Introducing Kubernetes Service Catalog and Google Cloud Platform Service Broker: find and connect services to your cloud-native apps blog docs
Julia Evans - zines store

Interview

Kubernetes site
Node.js Foundation board of directors
Tensorflow site
gRPC site
Apache Beam site
Google Kubernetes Engine site
Forseti site podcast
Cloud Native Compute Foundation site
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Kubernetes® as First Graduated Project blog
NTP’s Fate Hinges On ‘Father Time’ article
Open Container Initiative site
Fireside chat: building on and contributing to Google’s open source projects Google I/O

Question of the week

Mark broke SSH access to his Compute Engine instance by accidentally removing the GCP linux guest environment. How did he fix it?

Installing the Linux Guest Environment via Clone Root Disk & Use Startup Script docs

Where can you find us next?

Mark can be found streaming Agones development on Twitch and finished his blog series on scaling game servers on Kubernetes.

Melanie will be speaking at the internet2 Global Summit, May 9th in San Diego, and will also be talking at the Understand Risk Forum on May 17th, in Mexico City.

Open Source at Google Cloud Platform with Sarah Novotny

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