The Google Cloud Meetup #4 took place on 19 May 2020 for the first time on Google Meet. In Switzerland, it is currently still not allowed to meet with more than 5 people. Even though we couldn’t offer Pizza and Beer, we were able to have 40 people listening to our two topics.
Thomas Hug, CEO of nine introduces the speakers Jakob Ehrl of Google Cloud and Cyrill Troxler & Sebastian Nickel of Nine Internet Solutions AG.
Jakob Ehrl, Customer Engineer of Google Cloud Zürich, introduced us into his sandbox experiment with Cloud Run. Due to the current home office situation, he can’t travel to Google’s offices in Zürich by bike (15km). Together with his girlfriend, he decided to run every second day and log the activities to Strava. In order to play around with the gathered data, he shows in his uncommon painted presentation and lots of interaction with the audience, how the GPS data points from his watch get into BigQuery where he can analyze them. He presents a pipeline of entirely serverless building blocks including
He said it took him about a week to put the things together by mostly clicking on the Google Cloud Console - without counting the nights!
(The numbers in brackets refer to mm:ss in the recording below)
The 45min Q&A session about typical Kubernetes user questions with nine Kubernetes Engineers Sebastian Nickel and Cyrill Troxler started with survey questions. It showed that most of the attendees already have Kubernetes experience or are evaluating Kubernetes. They are using Raspberry Pi Clusters, Kube Flow or Minikube to mention a few.
Good starting points for GKE for people starting from zero are https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/tutorials or https://www.coursera.org/learn/gcp-fundamentals
Our next Google Cloud Meetup is planned for August 25, 2020 - hopefully in Zürich City again. With the very good experience doing an event online, but the lack of networking capabilities at the end, we want to combine the advantages of both, online and offline, as soon as it is allowed again. If you have an interesting project running on Google Cloud and think it could be interesting for others, feel free to contact us! We also very much appreciate suggestions for topics and possible speakers, by either meet-up-message, by using the contact form on our website, or via email to one of your contacts here at nine. We would like to keep things exciting. We look forward to seeing you again!
The Meetup link to the next Google Cloud Meetup #5 on August 25, 2020 (https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/google-cloud-zuerich/events/270878484/)
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