In the last episode for 2016, Mark and Francesc look at all their favourite moments from this year, including their favourite episodes, guests and Cool Things of the Week.

Cool thing of the week

Google partners with Improbable to support next generation of video games blog
Announcing new Google Cloud Client Libraries for four key services blog
Kubernetes 1.5: Supporting Production Workloads blog

Favourite Episodes

Top Downloaded Episodes

#46: Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes gcppodcast.com
#44: Cloud Endpoints with Dan Ciruli and Sepehr Ebrahimzadeh gcppodcast.com
#31: TensorFlow with Eli Bixby gcppodcast.com
#37: GKE 1.3 with Carter Morgan gcppodcast.com
#43: gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips gcppodcast.com

Mark’s Favourites

#19: GCP Next Speakers gcppodcast.com
#23: Humble Bundle with Andy Oxfeld gcppodcast.com
#52: Google Developer Experts Summit gcppodcast.com

Francesc’s Favourites

#25: Go on the Cloud with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot gcppodcast.com
#38: Site Reliability Engineering with Paul Newson gcppodcast.com
#43: gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips gcppodcast.com

Favourite Cool Things of the Week

Francesc’s Favourites

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

Kubernetes and Google Container Engine

Kubernetes 1.3 on tap for Google Container Engine blog
Google Container Engine now on Kubernetes 1.4 blog
Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog

Education:

CP100A: Google Cloud Platform Foundations courses
New Google Cloud Platform Education Grants offer free credits to students blog
Kubernetes class on Udacity blog

Mark’s Favourites

Multiple General Availabilities

Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are now generally available blog
Cloud Router docs
Cloud CDN docs
Identity and Access Management (IAM) docs

Machine Learning and Big Data

How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow blog
Decoding the micro-moments of baseball: can you hear the game through data? blog
Introducing Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API open beta and our West Coast region expansion blog
Powering geospatial analysis: public geo datasets now on Google Cloud blog
Introducing the Open Images Dataset blog

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A Year in Review

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