In this second episode of the year we’ll talk Java!

Ray Tsang and Rajeev Dayal tell your co-hosts Mark and
Francesc everything there is to know about Java on Google Cloud Platform.
You will learn about what you can currently as a Java developer on Google Cloud Platform,
but also what to expect on the future.



About Ray

Ray is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. Ray had extensive hands on
cross-industry enterprise systems integration delivery and management experiences during
his time at Accenture, managed full stack application development, DevOps, and ITOps.
Ray specialized in middleware, big data, and PaaS products during his time at Red Hat
while contributing to open source projects, such as Infinispan. Aside from technology,
Ray enjoys traveling and adventures.

About Rajeev

Rajeev Dayal is an Engineering Manager at Google New York that manages the Cloud SDK and Java on GCP efforts.
He’s been in the developer tools space for nearly 10 years, previously working on the Google Plugin for Eclipse and
GWT (where he still has nightmares about browser quirks with Internet Explorer 6) at Google’s Atlanta office.

Cool thing of the week


A 3-hour crash course on deep-learning, TensorFlow and more. blog post
Build a Slack bot that uses the Cloud ML Natural Language API github
Google Cloud Audit Logging now available across the GCP stack blog post


Interview


Java on Google Cloud docs
Java on App Engine Standad docs
Java and Dataflow docs
Google Cloud Tools for Eclipse Documentation docs
Google Cloud Stackdriver docs
Using Stackdriver Trace with Zipkin docs
Stackdriver Debugger docs


Question of the week


I want to move data from S3 to cloud storage - is there an easy way to do this?


Yes! This is the best way to do it docs.
You might also want to check out Minio.

Were will we be?

Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he’ll be speaking at
Cloud Next, both in San Francisco.

Francesc is doing a European tour, after speaking at golab
he’ll speak at GolangBCN.
The week after he’ll be in Paris and right after he’ll be in the Go Devroom at
FOSDEM. A bit later he’ll also be at Cloud Next.