Vancouver Tech Podcast

Episode 72: Mark Mandel, Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate Special Promotion Scott Bellware presents a Ruby Microservices workshop in Vancouver, April 29th and 30th: Retweet https://goo.gl/dTue29 with @vantechpodcast to be entered into a draw for a free ticket! (Drawing and winner announcement on April 22nd, 2017) Special Guest Mark Mandel, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform Our special guest this week, Mark Mandel tells us about Google Cloud Platform, some ridiculous(ly great) things you can do with cloud computing, such as create a take on rock-paper-scissors, called happy-angry-surprised, using Firebase and Cloud Vision API, where making funny faces into a webcam replaces making shapes with your hands. Ogryzek and Mandel discuss cross-cloud failovers, and the ability to run sets of containers across clusters of machines at scale with the Kubernetes container orchestration system. And being able to orchestrate using Federation across multiple data centers, regions or even clouds for hybrid