Google Cloud Platform Podcast

• Kubernetes and GKE for developers: a year of Cloud Console blog
• Reducing gender bias in Google Translate blog
• Cloud Security Command Center is now in beta and ready to use blog

• Podcast accomplishments!

  • We have awesome new intro and outro music, new website, new YouTube videos!
  • We hit 1 million and then 2 million downloads!
  • Mark and the podcast are celebrating their three year anniversary!

• Top 10 most downloaded episodes of all time!

  1. GCP Podcast Episode 111: Google Cloud Platform with Sam Ramji podcast
  2. GCP Podcast Episode 112: Percy.io with Mike Fotinakis podcast
  3. GCP Podcast Episode 146: Google AI with Jeff Dean podcast
  4. GCP Podcast Episode 127: SRE vs Devops with Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo podcast
  5. GCP Podcast Episode 128: Decision Intelligence with Cassie Kozyrkov podcast
  6. GCP Podcast Episode 113: Open Source TensorFlow with Yifei Feng podcast
  7. GCP Podcast Episode 88: Kubernetes 1.7 with Tim Hockin podcast
  8. GCP Podcast Episode 108: Launchpad Studio with Malika Cantor and Peter Norvig podcast
  9. GCP Podcast Episode 130: Data Science with Juliet Hougland and Michelle Casbon podcast
  10. GCP Podcast Episode 125: Open Source at Google Cloud Platform with Sarah Novotny podcast

• Top 10 most downloaded episodes for 2018!

  • Exact same list except Tim Hockin is not #7. Following episodes go up a number and we added to #10 spot.
  • GCP Podcast Episode 122: Project Jupyter with Jessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris Holdgraf podcast

• Mark’s favorite episodes

  • GCP Podcast Episode 129: Developer Relations with Mandy Waite podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 121: Kontributing to Kubernetes with Paris Pittman and Garrett Rodrigues podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 131: Actions on Google with Mandy Chan podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 148: Wellio with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 110: CPU Vulnerability with Matt Linton and Paul Turner podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 125: Open Source at Google Cloud Platform with Sarah Novotny podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 140: Container Security with Maya Kaczorowski podcast

• Melanie’s favorite episodes

  • GCP Podcast Episode 117: Cloud AI Fei-Fei Li was the Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 114: ML Bias & Fairness with Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 141: Accessibility in Tech podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 136: Robotics with Raia podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 150: Strange Loop, Remote Working, and Distributed Systems with KF podcast
  • DL Indaba
    • GCP Podcast Episode 147: DL Indaba: AI Investments in Africa podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 149: Deep Learning Research in Africa with Yabebal Fantaye & Jessica Phalafala podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 152: AI Corporations and Communities in Africa with Karim Beguir & Muthoni Wanyoike podcast
  • GCP Podcast Episode 157: NeurIPS and AI Research with Anima Anandkumar podcast

• Favorite announcements, products, and more at Google Cloud

  • Unity and Google Cloud Strategic Alliance blog
    • Open Match blog
  • Cloud TPU site
  • Google Dataset Search is in beta site
  • No tricks, just treats: Globally scaling the Halloween multiplayer Doodle with Open Match on Google Cloud blog
  • GKE On-Prem site
  • Open Source - Knative release, Skaffold, Istio updates, gVisor, etc.
  • Google in Ghana blog
  • Cloud NEXT blog
    • GCP Podcast Episode 137: Next Day 1 podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 138: Next Day 2 podcast
    • GCP Podcast Episode 139: Next Day 3 podcast
  • Unity and DeepMind partner to advance AI research blog
  • Introducing PyTorch across Google Cloud blog

What were your personal highlights for 2018?

• Mark

  • Agones
  • Introducing Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting built on Kubernetes blog github
  • The new website
  • Having Melanie join me on the podcast

• Melanie

  • Bringing Francesc back
  • Meeting Grace
  • GCP Podcast Episode 142: Agones With Mark Mandel and Cyril Tovena podcast

It’s the holidays!