Mar 1, 2016
In the fifteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Varun Talwar. Varun is a product manager in charge of gRPC, an open source project created at Google that helps you build distributed systems like we do internally at Google.
About Varun
Varun is a product manager in Google Cloud team and has recently taken on gRPC. Prior to this he was responsible for Google Cloud Launcher, a launchpad to easily spin up popular software images on Google Compute Engine. He is a long time Googler who has previously worked on YouTube, Maps and Adsense.
Follow Varun on Twitter @varungyan.
Cool thing of the week
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
Interview
Resources:
- grpc.io
- gRPC on GitHub
- Mailing list for gRPC: grpc-io@googlegroups.com
- Take a REST with HTTP/2, Protobufs, and Swagger blog
- Protocol Buffers docs
- etcd: distributed key-value store with grpc/http2 blog
- Flatbuffers docs
- Game on! Flatbuffers video
- thrift docs
Question of the week
Special guests Sara Robinson and David East.