GCDPotchas Podcast - Episode 5

The CEO and founder of Server Density, David Mytton, joins the podcast today to tell your co-hosts Mark and Francesc about their experience migrating from on-premise MongoDB to Cloud Bigtable.

Server Density provides an open source logging and monitoring solution running on Google Cloud Platform.

About David Mytton

David Mytton is founder and CEO of Server Density, a scalable infrastructure monitoring software company. He built the original version of the product and founded the HumanOps community to discuss and share how to improve the human aspects of running infrastructure following experiences being on-call 24⁄7 for the first few years of the company.

Cool things of the week

• TensorFlow and Deep Learning without a PhD part 1 and part 2
• Discover and redact sensitive data with the Data Loss Prevention API blog
• Digging deep on PHP 7.1 for Google App Engine

Interview

• Server Density homepage
• Mongo DB homepage
• Google Cloud Bigtable docs
• OpenTSDB: The Scalable Time Series Database docs
• Google Container Engine docs
• Apache Kafka project
• Designing your Bigtable schema docs
• HumanOps community
• Bigtable in action (Google Cloud Next '17) YouTube

Question of the week

What region should I use to optimize access from where I am?

• GCPing

Google Cloud Load Balancing docs

Where can you find us next?

Mark will be heading to Polyglot Vancouver Meetup in April, and then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector

Francesc just released the last episode of the Flappy Gopher miniseries of JustForFunc, and then will be presenting at Gophercon China in April.