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Our guest today is Reverend Kenn Blanchard. Kenn was once known internationally as the Black Man With A Gun. Before Google and Facebook existed, he played a monumental role in laying the groundwork for national concealed carry, the Heller Decision, and HR 218, the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act. Today, he is a musician and caregiver for his wife. He has a new book called Finding Joy in the Blues available on Amazon. 1) You were our very first guest on GFR, and much has happened in the past ten years since we first met. But, one thing hasn't changed, and that is that you have been Serving others your entire life. From your time in the Military, law enforcement, 2A Advocacy, and now your wife in her time of health needs. What drives you to show up in all of these roles? 2) Your wife is still recovering from a brain tumor. Your retirement years have not worked out the way you planned. Yet, you write a book about joy. Tell us about that. 3) One of the chapters in your book is called “A Preacher and a Rabbi”. In a time when some are trying to sew division based on every conceivable metric – race, class, religion, political ideology, etc – you two found an amazing connection and friendship. What was your common bond? 4) Where does 2A Advocacy fit in your life nowadays? 5) Having already planned for a future that didn't quite work out, how do you now make plans for what is next? 6) How do people follow you and buy your books? Originally Aired 5.16.25

Corey Quinn chats with Miles Ward, CTO of SADA, about SADA's recent acquisition by Insight and its impact on scaling the company's cloud services. Ward explains how Insight's backing allows SADA to take on more complex projects, such as multi-cloud migrations and data center transitions. They also discuss AI's growing role in business, the challenges of optimizing cloud AI costs, and the differences between cloud-to-cloud and data center migrations. Corey and Miles also share their takes on domain registrars and Corey gives a glimpse into his Raspberry Pi Kubernetes setup.Show Highlights(00:00) Intro(00:48) Backblaze sponsor read(2:04) Google's support of SADA being acquired by Insight(2:44) How the skills SADA invested in affects the cases they accept (5:14) Why it's easier to migrate from one cloud to another than from data center to cloud(7:06) Customer impact from the Broadcom pricing changes(10:40) The current cost of AI(13:55) Why the scale of AI makes it difficult to understand its current business impact(15:43) The challenges of monetizing AI(17:31) Micro and macro scale perspectives of AI(21:16) Amazon's new habit of slowly killing of services(26:55) Corey's policy to never use a domain registrar with the word “daddy” in their name(32:46) Where to find more from Miles and SADAAbout Miles WardAs Chief Technology Officer at SADA, Miles Ward leads SADA's cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization; reinforcing our engineering culture; and engaging with customers on their most complex and ambitious plans around Google Cloud.Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Cloud. He founded the Google Cloud's Solutions Architecture practice, launched hundreds of solutions, built Style-Detection and Hummus AI APIs, built CloudHero, designed the pricing and TCO calculators, and helped thousands of customers like Twitter who migrated the world's largest Hadoop cluster to public cloud and Audi USA who re-platformed to k8s before it was out of alpha, and helped Banco Itau design the intercloud architecture for the bank of the future.Before Google, Miles helped build the AWS Solutions Architecture team. He wrote the first AWS Well-Architected framework, proposed Trusted Advisor and the Snowmobile, invented GameDay, worked as a core part of the Obama for America 2012 “tech” team, helped NASA stream the Curiosity Mars Rover landing, and rebooted Skype in a pinch.Earning his Bachelor of Science in Rhetoric and Media Studies from Willamette University, Miles is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur who also plays a mean electric sousaphone.LinksProfessional site: https://sada.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milesward/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mileswardSponsorBackblaze: https://www.backblaze.com/   

Michael Margolis, UX Research Partner at Google Ventures, breaks down the Bullseye Customer Sprint methodology and how it helps startups quickly identify what to build and who to target. Learn how to use the “5 and 3 in 1 formula”—five bullseye customers, three prototypes, in one day—to accelerate learning and de-risk product decision-making.Gain practical strategies for streamlining customer discovery so you can build the right products, faster. Michael shares how to define your bullseye customers, prioritize the key questions to focus on, and avoid common pitfalls in early product development.About Michael: Michael Margolis joined Google Ventures in 2010 as the venture industry's first UX research partner. With over 30 years of experience, he's conducted 300 research sprints with GV portfolio companies across diverse sectors. His work has helped hundreds of companies boost conversions, test new concepts, streamline workflows, and define bullseye customers. Michael joined Google as a staff user experience researcher, where he conducted research for Gmail, led the UX research team for Google Apps, and managed Google's UX team in Seattle. Before Google, he spearheaded user research at Walmart.com and produced educational software at Electronic Arts. Michael earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in anthropology from Stanford University and is the author of Learn More Faster.Connect with Michael:You can follow Michael on LinkedIn or check out his articles on Medium.Resources: Learn More Faster by Michael MargolisConduct stellar user research even faster by Michael MargolisResearch Practice by Gregg BernsteinDisco Conf 2024, the global research and discovery conference by MazeUnpacking User Interviews: Turning Conversations into Insight by Maze Follow Maze on Social Media:X: @mazedesignHQInstagram: @mazedesignHQLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mazedesignTo get notified when new episodes air, subscribe at maze.co/podcast.See you next time!

Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google's Effective Founders Project, a global research program that uses people analytics to uncover what makes the best startup founders succeed and shares their success formula with the world. He has run leadership courses for thousands of tech startup founders across seventy countries in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. He is a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship, organization design, and people analytics at Stanford, Wharton, and INSEAD. He is also the author of the bestselling book, The Bonfire Moment: Bring Your Team Together to Solve the Hardest Issues Startups Face. Martin is a principal of organization and leadership development at Google. He works with Google's senior leaders to shape team culture, develop their people, and expand their leadership, so they can build cool things that matter. In his ten years there, he's worked with leaders across Google Research, DeepMind, Technology & Society, Responsible AI, Pixel, Fitbit, YouTube, Search, Maps, Android, and Chrome, to name a few.  In 2023, The Aspen Institute recognized him as a First Movers Fellow, honoring his pioneering work at Google. In 2024, he was featured on the Thinkers50 Radar List, a prestigious recognition dubbed the "Oscars of management thinking" by the Financial Times, highlighting emerging thinkers expected to significantly influence future management thinking. Before Google, he was a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and a product manager at Johnson & Johnson.  Martin has studied organizational psychology and behavioral science at Columbia University and the London School of Economics. He's a serial immigrant, having lived and worked in New York, Jakarta, Singapore, Taipei, and Manila, where he is originally from. Today, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Bea, and three kids: Noelle, Jaime, and Andrea.A Quote From This Episode"Startups have a people problem."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeWebsite/Book - The Bonfire Moment Book - Creative Construction by Gary PisanoAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Register for ILA's 26th Global Conference in Chicago, IL - November 7-10, 2024.About  Scott J. AllenWebsiteWeekly Newsletter: The Leader's EdgeBlogMy Approach to HostingThe views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.

In this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, we're revisiting our conversation with Miles War — perhaps the closest thing Google Cloud has to Corey Quinn. With a wit and sharpness at hand, and an entire backup retinue of trumpets, trombones, and various brass horns, Miles is here to join the conversation about what all is going on at Google Cloud. Miles breaks down SADA and their partnership with Google Cloud. He goes into some details on what GCP has been up to, and talks about the various areas they are capitulating forward. Miles talks about working with Thomas Kurian, who is the only who counts since he follows Corey on Twitter, and the various profundities that GCP has at hand.Show Highlights:(0:00) Intro(1:38) Sonrai Security sponsor read(2:40) Reliving Google Cloud Next 2021(7:24) Unlikable, yet necessary change at Google(11:41) Lack of Focus in the Cloud(18:03) Google releases benefitting developers(20:57) The rise of distributed databases(24:12) Backblaze sponsor read(24:41) Arguments for (and against) going multi-cloud(26:49) The problem with Google Cloud outages(33:01) Data transfer fees(37:49) Where you can find more from MilesAbout Miles WardAs Chief Technology Officer at SADA, Miles Ward leads SADA's cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization; reinforcing our engineering culture; and engaging with customers on their most complex and ambitious plans around Google Cloud.Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Cloud. He founded the Google Cloud's Solutions Architecture practice, launched hundreds of solutions, built Style-Detection and Hummus AI APIs, built CloudHero, designed the pricing and TCO calculators, and helped thousands of customers like Twitter who migrated the world's largest Hadoop cluster to public cloud and Audi USA who re-platformed to k8s before it was out of alpha, and helped Banco Itau design the intercloud architecture for the bank of the future.Before Google, Miles helped build the AWS Solutions Architecture team. He wrote the first AWS Well-Architected framework, proposed Trusted Advisor and the Snowmobile, invented GameDay, worked as a core part of the Obama for America 2012 “tech” team, helped NASA stream the Curiosity Mars Rover landing, and rebooted Skype in a pinch.Earning his Bachelor of Science in Rhetoric and Media Studies from Willamette University, Miles is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur who also plays a mean electric sousaphone.Links:SADA.com: https://sada.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/mileswardEmail: miles@sada.comOriginal episode:https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/gcp-s-many-profundities-with-miles-ward/SponsorsSonrai Security: sonrai.co/access24Backblaze: backblaze.com 

Scott served as the recent Head of Innovation for Customer Engineering at Google. He worked at the company from 2015 through 2024 in the Ads Data Platforms, Analytics and Google Cloud product areas in ANZ and APAC. Before Google, Scott worked with Adobe on digital strategy and transformation. Scott is a also recent graduate of the VC catalyst program delivered by The Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship. This episode is brought to you in partnership with The Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship. Check out their award winning VC Catalyst Program.Hosted by Vidit Agarwal, Founder of Curiosity Center and The High Flyers Podcast.It's now time to explore your curiosity. If you're keen to discuss sponsorship and partnering with us, email us at vidit@thehighflyerspodcast.com today! ***CLICK HERE to read show notes from this conversation. Please enjoy!***Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or TwitterGet in touch with our Founder and Host, Vidit Agarwal directly hereContact us via our website to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests or share feedback, we love hearing how to improve! Thank you for rating / reviewing this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, it helps others find us and convince guests to come on the show! ***The High Flyers Podcast re-imagines the traditional notion of a "high flyer" and is a premier product of the Curiosity Center. The podcast showcases the journeys of relatable role models from their sunrise (childhood) to today. Listeners love the unique and direct inside access to these relatable role models, companies and industries in every walk of life to help us all be 1% better everyday, together.170+ guests have joined Vidit Agarwal on the show from around the world including Heads of state, Olympians, Business and cultural leaders, Social Advocates, Investors, Entrepreneurs and more. Past guests include: Anil Sabharwal, Mark Suster, Ahmed Fahour, Holly Ransom, Daniel Petre, Paul Bassat, Simon Holmes a Court, Michael Traill, Osher Gunsberg, Ed Cowan, Carol Schwartz, Wyatt Roy, Jack Zhang, Martijn Wilder, Holly Kramer and more.The Curiosity Center is your on-demand intelligence hub for knowledge, connections and growth to achieve your potential, everyday. Join 200,000+ Investors, Founders, Decision Makers and Emerging Leaders. Learn with the world's best at www.curiositycenter.xyz***

Shantanu Sinha is the VP and GM of Google for Education. In addition to bringing Google products like Workspace to schools, Shantanu and his team build educational products such as Google Classroom, which helps over 150 million students, teachers and education leaders across classrooms around the world, and new experiences such as Practice Sets and Read Along, that demonstrate the power of artificial intelligence for teaching and learning.Before Google, Shantanu was the founding President and Chief Operating Officer at Khan Academy, where he teamed up with college roommate Sal Khan to build an organization that helped make personalized learning globally accessible and free. Shantanu is also a founding board member of Khan Lab School, where all three of his children attend school.Shantanu has leveraged his strategy and operations expertise from his time at McKinsey & Company, along with his background in computer science, math, and brain cognitive sciences from MIT, to make an impact in an area he is most passionate about: education. Follow @ShantanuKSinha.Recommended Resources:

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Stacie Chan is the Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at 1BStories, an AI storytelling company. She spent eight and a half years at Google leading product partnerships on Google's 1 billion user consumer products including Google News, Search, Web and Assistant. Before Google, she was an award-winning journalist in Silicon Valley, managing a team of 10 reporters for AOL's Patch.com. But that's not the most interesting part about Stacie. Fun fact: She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her voiceover acting work.Topics:[00:01:06] - Meet Stacie Chan[00:04:43] - Parental Support in Acting Career[00:07:34] - Expanding Horizons Through Animated Roles[00:10:49] - Navigating Career Changes and Unexpected Opportunities[00:19:49] - AOL's Patch[00:29:48] - Global Opportunities at Google[00:33:58] - Building a Company With Charismatic Vision[00:38:44] - Navigating the Fundraising Landscape[00:41:53] - Lessons From Big Tech to Startups[00:52:33] - Career Sacrifices and FulfillmentLike the show? Subscribe to the BackScoop newsletter to stay updated with the latest news in Southeast Asian startups in minutes: backscoop.com.Visit BackScoop's social media pages and show your support!BackScoop (Linkedin): https://www.linkedin.com/company/backscoop/BackScoop (Twitter): https://twitter.com/BackScoopHQBackScoop (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/BackScoopBackScoop (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/backscoopVisit Amanda Cua's social media pages:Amanda (Linkedin): https://ph.linkedin.com/in/amanda-cuaAmanda (Twitter): https://twitter.com/itsAmandaCuaVisit Stacie Chan's social media pages:Stacie (Twitter): https://twitter.com/staciechan?lang=en 1 Billion Stories (Website): https://www.1bstories.com/#home Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

About This EpisodeCara Shortsleeve, CEO of The Leadership Consortium, exemplifies the delicate balance between strength and vulnerability in leadership. Her early lessons of inclusion and empowerment growing up have translated into a leadership style that's as inclusive as it is decisive. Throughout this episode, she delves into the importance of trust and transparency as a leader as well as the significance of self-evaluation. Cara describes how The Leadership Consortium, co-founded by Frances Frei and Anne Morris, came about as a leadership development platform for high potential and diverse leaders that aims to proactively cultivate cultural excellence. Tune in for an insightful episode around authentic leadership, including how to foster confidence, vulnerability, and trust for yourself and your team. About Cara ShortsleeveCara Shortsleeve is the CEO at The Leadership Consortium (TLC), a leadership development platform for high potential and diverse leaders. Cara joined Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei and Thinkers50 author Anne Morriss to launch and scale the business in 2018. Since that time, TLC has forged strong enterprise partnerships with 80+ companies (including Google, Walmart, IBM, ServiceNow, L'Oreal, State Farm, the NBA, and dozens more) in 50+ countries. The ROI for clients is real: TLC has accelerated 4,500+ leaders, 97% of whom say TLC increased their confidence and 99% of whom report increased goodwill toward their employer. Prior to joining TLC, Cara spent 10+ years in various leadership roles at Google and YouTube- most recently focusing on commercial and product strategy as a Global Director for GTM at YouTube. Previously, she helped launch and scale Google's east coast, mid-market sales presence in Boston, MA. Before Google, Cara managed the US running apparel business at New Balance, served as a Sales Director for Hind/Saucony, and spent three years with Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division. Cara received her BA from Williams College and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She lives near Boston with her husband and three children. Additional ResourcesWebsite: www.theleadershipconsortium.orgLinkedIn: @CaraShortsleeve

Kristen Leone, a leading authority in Digital Transformation and Strategy at Google, empowers the company's major clients with innovative insights, enhancing consumer experiences through strategic digital approaches. Kristen is a strategic leader celebrated for her entrepreneurial growth mindset. I was delighted to interview her, and in this podcast, we delve into:The divergence of purpose and workEvolving job fit and the Fit DeltaChanging desires and organizational needs Career decision frameworkMentioned on the Show: Learned Optimism, Martin SeligmanThinking Fast and Slow, Daniel KahnemanThe Extended Mind, Annie Murphy PaulShow GuestKristen Leone is a Digital Transformation and Strategy expert at Google.  She concurrently serves as Head of Industry for the Home and Consumer Services category, partnering with advertisers in the automotive, real estate, and home security industries to drive transformative impact for their businesses. Before Google, Kristen led Sales Strategy teams at The Weather Company/An IBM Business and WebMD. She co-founded the venture-backed startup Joor, the premier digital platform for wholesale management in contemporary fashion. And she honed her skills as a classically trained brand manager at General Mills. Kristen holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Princeton University. Follow her on LinkedIn  Support the showJill Griffin is committed to improving workplace life through leadership guidance, well-being, and impactful strategies. Her executive coaching, workshop facilitation, and innovation have driven multi-million-dollar revenues for top agencies, startups, and renowned brands. Her strategic acumen and perceptive insights contribute to individual and organizational success. Collaborating with individuals, teams, and organizations, Jill fosters high-performance cultures and facilitates growth for leaders. Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on: Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making Keynote Speaking Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE Follow @jillGriffinOffical on Instagram for daily inspiration Connect with and follow Jill on LinkedIn

Do you HAVE to work 16-hour days in order to achieve success?Meet Eric Ehrlich!Eric Nehrlich is an Executive Leadership Coach and former Chief of Staff at Google. He helps empower high performers to become better leaders. He also apportions part of his time to Pro Bono Coaching in order to help previously marginalized communities. Eric is a catalyst for personal growth who helps his clients find the path towards their dream selves. By integrating learnings from across his dozens of clients, he helps identify the pitfalls and opportunities on their path. Before becoming a coach, he advised the leaders of Google for over 10 years, including 6 years leading business strategy and operations for the search ads team as the Chief of Staff to the Product VP of AdWords. Before Google, he was an engineer and product manager at several technology startups.Eric is certified as a coach by the International Coach Federation, is a New Ventures West Integral Coach and also certified with the Leadership Circle Profile 360 assessment. Outside of coaching, he mostly spend his time dad-ding his 2 kids. He has always been passionate about connecting people and ideas.Eric recently published his bestseller, 'You Have A Choice' on how he redesigned his life to be more meaningful and impactful after burning out. This book will provide you with the tools you need to find a new path with purpose—one where you define what success means to you.On this episode, he shares his experiences as he went from being burned out and asking himself the necessary questions that led to a more fulfilling, successful life.Key Points- How he suffered Burnout- Are you questioning your Choices and Outlook?- What Belief Systems have you adopted?- What boxes are you keeping yourself in as a Leader?- What creates a High-performing Team- The Cost of not Communicating clearly- How to present to Non-Technical Audiences- What does Success mean to you?- The power of NO...and so much more!Connect with Eric:Website: https://www.toomanytrees.comWebsite: https://www.toomanytrees.com/bookLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nehrlich/Additional Resources:"You Have A Choice" by Eric Nehrlich on AmazonListen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-have-a-choice-w-eric-nehrlich/id1614151066?i=1000638453276Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zpkv2lMYwhj4IU2sFFFKAYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wG6GznJQ08

Wendy Wu's motto is: Where there's a will, there's a way. It's taken her far—from Microsoft to Google, and now to software developer SailPoint, where she is the Chief Marketing Officer.Wendy believes that “you have to be the owner of your own career,” and that means defining what you want outside of your current role. She tells us about the time she did just that at Microsoft when her position was eliminated and she had to create a new position for herself.“Oftentimes a job description just tells you the status quo for today,” says Wendy, who grew up in China. “It doesn't tell you what's going to be next for you, so always extend yourself into other areas that may set you up for longer-term success.” We chat about three keys to defining your career and Wendy encourages us to seek help along the way!Theme: Know What You WantEpisode Highlights:Work life blend vs work life balanceAlways give your best effort at work and lifeGo beyond the job descriptionCreate your own opportunitiesTalk to others about their jobsTry out a role and pivoting as necessaryBe aware of how you feel Volunteer to develop new skillsAsk for help along the wayWendy's Bio:Wendy Wu brings over 20 years of experience in B2B enterprise marketing to her role at SailPoint as the company's Chief Marketing Officer. At SailPoint, she's focused on accelerating the company's growth through modern, digital marketing, elevating SailPoint's brand recognition, driving product adoption, and helping to deliver against the company's business goals worldwide.Prior to joining SailPoint, Wendy was Vice President of Marketing at Box, where she led the global demand generation team to fuel the growth of the business as a leading content cloud platform. Before Box, Wendy spent eight years at Google Cloud. While there, she built the demand generation team for the Google Cloud Platform, eventually scaling the global marketing programs to support a multi-billion-dollar business. Before Google, Wendy held various product marketing and marketing leadership roles at Microsoft and other global companies.Wendy received her bachelor's degree in English from Fudan University and her master's degrees in Public Policy and Cultural Anthropology from Duke University.Connect with us on our social media: Instagram and LinkedInJoin our LinkedIn community where we discuss rule-breaking strategies for multicultural women.More from Alisa Manjarrez: Instagram and LinkedInMore from Courtney Copelin: Instagram and LinkedInMore from Dr. Merary Simeon: Instagram and LinkedInLearn more at www.whatrulespodcast.com.

Thoughtfully designed products can promote efficacy, success, and joy – but that's only one side of the coin. Bad design is everywhere, and poorly designed products cause more than mere discomfort; they can anger, sadden, exclude, and even kill the people who use them. From a bad interface that ended a young cancer patient's life to product designs that exclude minority groups, Jonathan Shariat has seen his fair share of dangerous designs during his decade-long career as a senior designer – a trend he's determined to rectify.  Jonathan is an international speaker, former podcast host, design leader at Google, and author of Tragic Design: The Impact of Bad Product Design. He is passionate about using design as a tool to improve our world, with over a decade of experience working as a senior designer for companies like Intuit, Project Ronin, and Hightail. In this episode, Dart and Jonathan discuss:- The high stakes of bad design- Incorporating accessibility and the human experience into design- Transforming pessimism into innovation- What types of design anger, sadden, and kill customers - Accidental dark patterns at work and how to fix them- How company values slowly impact design, products, and business success- The importance of qualitative research - And other topics…Jonathan Shariat is an international speaker, podcast host, and senior interaction design leader at Google. Jonathan is passionate about doing right by others and using design as a tool to improve the world we live in, with over a decade of experience working in design with startups to large companies. Before Google, Jonathan worked as a senior designer for Project Ronin, Intuit, and Hightail, as well as a product director for Therapydia.Jonathan's insights and passion for ethical and helpful design are shared in his latest book, Tragic Design: The Impact of Bad Product Design and How to Fix It. He is also the author of a #1 most recommended article on Medium titled “How Bad UX Killed Jenny.” Resources mentioned:Tragic Design, by Jonathan Shariat and Cynthia Savard Saucier: https://www.amazon.com/Tragic-Design-Impact-Bad-Product/dp/149192361X Connect with Jonathan:www.Jonathanshariat.com

Abe Murray is a visionary founder, accomplished builder, and distinguished product engineering lead with a remarkable track record in the tech industry. Currently serving as a General Partner at AlleyCorp Robotics, Abe leverages his expertise to drive innovation and excellence in the field of robotics and technology. Abe was previously a product and engineering leader at Alphabet. He launched Play Books and Magazines at Android, delivered $XXXM in business while building the Verily Life Science product teams and Boston office, and shipped AI /ML/computer vision across Google while building the Google Research product team. Before Google, he built a Web 2.0 startup and worked on UAVs in the defense industry.  Abe has some shiny degrees (HBS MBA, WPI MS EE, URI BS Comp Eng) but says he learned the most when he dropped out of high school to run fishing boats and factory lines in the family aquaculture business. In his free time, Abe enjoys being a parent and partner, building all kinds of things with his kids, and staying as healthy as he's able. About VSC Ventures: For 20 years, our award-winning ⁠⁠PR agency VSC⁠⁠ has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building. Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds. Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like ⁠⁠Ample⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Actual⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Sesame Solar⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Synop⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Vibrant Planet⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Zume⁠⁠ among many others.

Kvon is the Co-Founder and CEO of Consciously, a purpose-driven firm that helps executives and organizations do work with more purpose. Until early this year, Kvon was the Global Head of Leadership Development at Google. What were some of the lessons you learned about leadership, coaching Fortune 500 executives at Amazon, Netflix, and Google? Could you describe the difference in cultures at these Fortune 500 companies? How do you develop leadership presence by using your body, feelings, and emotions? What tips are there to a develop contemplative practice? Why leaders need to lead with purpose and how can they develop purpose statements. Kvon Tucker Kvon is the Co-Founder and CEO of Consciously, a purpose-driven firm that helps executives and organizations do work with more purpose. Until early this year, Kvon was the Global Head of Leadership Development at Google. Part of his job at Google involved coaching top executives to be better leaders as they help grow the company. Before Google, Kvon worked at Amazon and Netflix, where he also coached leaders on how to adapt to hyper-growth and tremendous scale. Kvon has also had the opportunity to coach Apple, Tesla, Facebook/Meta, and LinkedIn executives. He holds a Master's in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (M.S. I-O) and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC). Excellent Executive Coaching Podcast If you have enjoyed this episode, subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. We would love for you to leave a review. The EEC podcasts are sponsored by MKB Excellent Executive Coaching that helps you get from where you are to where you want to be with customized leadership and coaching development programs. MKB Excellent Executive Coaching offers leadership development programs to generate action, learning, and change that is aligned with your authentic self and values. Transform your dreams into reality and invest in yourself by scheduling a discovery session with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC to reach your goals. Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of www.mkbconseil.ch a company specialized in leadership development and executive coaching.

In 2017, Britannica celebrated 100 years of existence. However, that doesn't translate to popularity, as encyclopedias have lost their appeal. The introduction of technology gradually phased out the need for physical books and paper trails. Before Google and Safari, every school student knew that the encyclopedias in the library held the answers to every research question they had. However, today, anyone with access to the internet can easily get that information without leaving the comfort of their homes. This evolution of technology has generally led to an inevitable phasing out of printed books, including encyclopedias hence the reduced market value. You can purchase an antique encyclopedia for as low as $10 to $50 apiece and no more than $100 for a set. This guide has detailed information on antique encyclopedias, from the history to the current market value, types, and restoration. Keep reading for the answers you seek. Check Images: Valuable Antique Detector(https://www.txantiquemall.com/are-old-encyclopedias-worth-anything/) Pin: https://www.pinterest.com/valuableantiquedetector/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/valuableantiquedetector/ TW: https://twitter.com/antiquedetector Ins: https://www.instagram.com/valuableantiquedetector/   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Tom Chi is the Founding Partner at At One Ventures based in San Francisco. At One Ventures focuses on backing early-stage startups that use deep technology to reduce planetary footprint.  Tom has worked in a wide range of roles from astrophysical researcher to designer to corporate executive developing new hardware/software products and services. He's played a significant role in established projects with global reach (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Search, Google), and scaled new projects from conception to significance. Tom spent several successful years at Google X as Head of Product Experience, where he and his team developed Google Glass and Google's self-driving car. Before Google, Tom was Senior Director of Product and User Experience at Yahoo and was instrumental in scaling Yahoo Answers from 0 to 90 million users. Tom holds a Master's of Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and is currently utilizing his passion for climate to mentor social entrepreneurs and help the next generation of climate tech startups scale.  About VSC Ventures: For 20 years, our award-winning PR agency VSC has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building. Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds. Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like Ample, Actual, Sesame Solar, Synop, Vibrant Planet, and Zume among many others.

Google Cloud announced four new and updated AI technologies to help retailers transform their in-store operations and e-commerce experiences.We got the chance to chat with Amy Eschliman, Managing Director of Retail at Google Cloud. Amy is responsible for shaping our Americas Retail solution strategy. Before Google, Amy has extensive experience in retail, focused primarily on e-commerce and customer engagement. Most recently, Amy was at Sephora, where she served as the SVP of Client Engagement and previously as the SVP of E-commerce.In this podcast, Amy discussed the recent announcements and how retailers are using AI and machine learning to advance online and in-store shopping experiences for Canadians. 

In episode 54 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks with Pete Florence.Note: this was recorded 2 months ago. Andrey should be getting back to putting out some episodes next year. Pete Florence is a Research Scientist at Google Research on the Robotics at Google team inside Brain Team in Google Research. His research focuses on topics in robotics, computer vision, and natural language -- including 3D learning, self-supervised learning, and policy learning in robotics. Before Google, he finished his PhD in Computer Science at MIT with Russ Tedrake.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast:  Apple Podcasts  | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00:00) Intro* (00:01:16) Start in AI* (00:04:15) PhD Work with Quadcopters* (00:08:40) Dense Visual Representations * (00:22:00) NeRFs for Robotics* (00:39:00) Language Models for Robotics* (00:57:00) Talking to Robots in Real Time* (01:07:00) Limitations* (01:14:00) OutroPapers discussed:* Aggressive quadrotor flight through cluttered environments using mixed integer programming * Integrated perception and control at high speed: Evaluating collision avoidance maneuvers without maps* High-speed autonomous obstacle avoidance with pushbroom stereo* Dense Object Nets: Learning Dense Visual Object Descriptors By and For Robotic Manipulation. (Best Paper Award, CoRL 2018)* Self-Supervised Correspondence in Visuomotor Policy Learning (Best Paper Award, RA-L 2020 )* iNeRF: Inverting Neural Radiance Fields for Pose Estimation.* NeRF-Supervision: Learning Dense Object Descriptors from Neural Radiance Fields.* Reinforcement Learning with Neural Radiance Fields* Socratic Models: Composing Zero-Shot Multimodal Reasoning with Language.* Inner Monologue: Embodied Reasoning through Planning with Language Models* Code as Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe

Kvon is the Co-Founder and CEO of Consciously, a purpose-driven firm that helps executives and organizations do work with more purpose. Until early this year, Kvon was the Global Head of Manager and Leadership Development at Google. Part of his job at Google involved coaching top executives to be better leaders as they help grow the company. Before Google, Kvon worked at Amazon and Netflix, where he also coached leaders on how to adapt to hyper-growth and tremendous scale. Kvon has also had the opportunity to coach Apple, Tesla, Facebook/Meta, and LinkedIn executives. He holds a Master's in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (M.S. I-O) and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC). On the podcast, Kvon would love to talk about: Lessons he learned about leadership, coaching Fortune 500 executives. Leadership presence and practical tips c-suite executives can use to develop presence. Why leaders need to lead with purpose, and how they can develop purpose statements. Social Media Links: https://consciously.one/

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Stephanie Wong. Stephanie is a 3x Webby award-winning Head of Developer Engagement. She is a global keynote speaker, engineer, and content creator with a mission to blend storytelling and technology to inspire developers. She has created hundreds of pieces of content, including the Google Cloud Youtube series Networking End-to-End, Season of Scale, and Discovering Data Centers, and is host of the weekly Google Cloud Podcast. Before Google she helped businesses implement cloud technologies at Oracle. Born and raised in San Francisco, Stephanie's active in her community, supporting women in tech and mentoring students. She's a former pageant queen, hip hop dancer, and has an unhealthy obsession with dogs. You can find her online at @stephr_wong. In this episode we learn about how Stephaine was able to create her own unique role at the intersection of her interests, how she manages imposter syndrome with the pancake principle, and seemingly unrelated experiences like pageants can improve the value you create at work.Stephanie's links:stephrwong.comhttp://www.twitter.com/stephr_wonghttp://www.linkedin.com/in/stephrwonghttps://www.youtube.com/@stephr_wong

Until early 2022, Kvon Tucker was the Global Head of Manager and Leadership Development at Google. Part of his job at Google involved coaching top executives to be better leaders as they help grow the company.Before Google, Kvon worked at Amazon and Netflix, where he also coached leaders on how to adapt to hyper-growth and tremendous scale. Kvon has also had the opportunity to coach Apple, Tesla, Facebook/Meta, and LinkedIn executives. Now he is the CEO of Consciously...More Info: www.consciously.oneSponsors: Master Your Podcast Course: MasterYourSwagFree Coaching Session: Masterleadership.orgSupport Our Show: Click HereSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/masterleadership. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I started digital advertising with my e-commerce site in 2003 B.G. (Before Google). Perry Marshall was one of my early mentors and overtime I mastered PPC and AdWords. Perry began to recommend me to clients. I evolved from just managing my e-commerce site to forming Clients and Clients an agency to help more businesses succeed online. To date we have managed over $100,000,000 in ad spend for our clients. Managing over $25,000,000 in Google ads and over $75,000,000 in Facebook ads has taught us that every piece of the puzzle needs to be firing to get a significant ROI on a digital ad spend. Ad Copy, images, landing pages, email, lead follow-up and more. We are analytics obsessed! We dissect every component of a campaign to ensure your advertising dollars are not being wasted, and then quickly scale the winning campaigns. The clients we have the most experience working with consist of: 1. Real estate education and services 2. Personal injury attorneys 3. Insurance (auto, auto warranties, health, home) 4. Personal financing/loans 5. Luxury boutique travel 6. Thought leaders 7. Event and seminar leaders Our clients choose us because we are laser-focused on: - Delivering cutting edge advertising methods, as we always remain ‘in the know' as to what is working best today - Generating more qualified buyers while reducing the cost per buyer - Eliminating wasted advertising dollars - Scaling campaigns quickly that are making money vs. getting cheap leads - Helping our clients to outperform their competitors - Looking beyond the cost per lead, to the more critical metric, the cost per buyer, lifetime value and return on ad spend. We are experienced in managing ad spends for individual clients in the tens of thousands up to multi-million dollars campaigns. If you would like to maximize your results with your digital advertising spend, I would be happy to share some insights on how we can help. Email me at clients@clicksandclients.com

BioGinny was most recently Director, Executive Recruiting at Google from August 2016 until November 2020. In this role, she led the Diversity, Non-tech Recruiting, and the Leadership Internal Mobility teams. Before Google, Ginny was a Partner at Spencer Stuart, the global executive search firm, where she co-founded and led the firm's Global Diversity Practice.  Currently, Ginny runs Ginny Clarke, LLC, her own talent and leadership consulting business. She is also an active keynote speaker, host and creator of podcast Fifth Dimensional Leadership, and the author of Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work (2011).Connect with Ginny Clarke!Website: http://www.ginnyclarke.comEmail: ginny@ginnyclarke.comTwitter: @GinnyClarkeFacebook: Ginny.Clarke.5Instagram: @ginny_clarkePinterest: @ginnyann8LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginnyclarke/

This week, Max Saltonstall and Stephanie Wong go behind the scenes at Google Cloud with Gabe Weiss and Anita Kibunguchy-Grant to learn how new products move from idea to market. To start, our guests walk us through a typical end-to-end life cycle as Google creates new and exciting products for users. Starting with a problem sometimes brought to light by users, a solution is workshopped, and a team is brought together to tackle the issue. Once the product is workable, Gabe and his team step in to evaluate and pass it on to Anita for market launch. With examples like BigQuery Omni and AlloyDB, Anita and Gabe walk us through a real launch scenario, from naming the product to promotion and observing the satisfying impacts of a product solving real-world problems. Anita details the three phases of a product launch and which teams are involved. The phases are pre-launch, during launch, and post-launch. In pre-launch, things like naming and messaging are crafted, priority is assigned via tier assignment, and plans are made to interact with various promotional and other teams who may need to be involved with the launch. Launch day activities are coordinated next as various marketing avenues are leveraged for maximum visibility and development teams work together to make the technical side successful. Post-Launch involves some debriefing on the success of the marketing as well as analysis of use, press coverage, page views, revenue, sentiment among users, and enabling sales teams for success. Gabe talks about the importance of his team in the process as they test products for customer usability and QA before launch as well. He and Anita elaborate on the differences with Google launches versus other companies, including the stages involved in launch and the naming of these stages. Many launches are done at big Google Cloud events, like Google I/O, Anita points out as a unique feature of Google, which can be a gift and a curse. Challenges are addressed as our guests talk us through possible problems and the ways launch teams address them. Anita and Gabe emphasize empathy and communication in product launching and the importance of clear, productive feedback. Anita Kibunguchy-Grant Anita Kibunguchy-Grant is a Product Marketing Lead at Google with extensive experience across Data Analytics and Databases products and solutions. Before Google, she led awareness and go-to-market programs at VMware. She has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and is passionate about helping customers use data and technology to transform their businesses. Gabe Weiss Gabe leads the database advocacy team for the Google Cloud Platform team ensuring that developers can make awesome things, both inside and outside of Google. Prior to Google he's worked in virtual reality production and distribution, source control, the games industry, and professional acting. Cool things of the week Leveling up your data analysis skills as a student blog Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude site How Google Cloud blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack at 46 million rps blog Interview BigQuery site Datastream site Database Migration Services site Cloud SQL site AlloyDB site PostgreSQL site Google I/O site Qwiklabs site Agones site Databases blog What's something cool you're working on? Max is wrapping up his hosting of summer interns and getting ready for vacation! He plans to play a lot of board games and video games! Steph also enjoyed hosting interns this summer! Hosts Stephanie Wong and Max Saltonstall

I started digital advertising with my e-commerce site in 2003 B.G. (Before Google). Perry Marshall was one of my early mentors and overtime I mastered PPC and AdWords. Perry began to recommend me to clients. I evolved from just managing my e-commerce site to forming Clients and Clients an agency to help more businesses succeed online. To date we have managed over $100,000,000 in ad spend for our clients. Managing over $25,000,000 in Google ads and over $75,000,000 in Facebook ads has taught us that every piece of the puzzle needs to be firing to get a significant ROI on a digital ad spend. Ad Copy, images, landing pages, email, lead follow-up and more. We are analytics obsessed! We dissect every component of a campaign to ensure your advertising dollars are not being wasted, and then quickly scale the winning campaigns. The clients we have the most experience working with consist of: 1. Real estate education and services 2. Personal injury attorneys 3. Insurance (auto, auto warranties, health, home) 4. Personal financing/loans 5. Luxury boutique travel 6. Thought leaders 7. Event and seminar leaders Our clients choose us because we are laser-focused on: - Delivering cutting edge advertising methods, as we always remain ‘in the know' as to what is working best today - Generating more qualified buyers while reducing the cost per buyer - Eliminating wasted advertising dollars - Scaling campaigns quickly that are making money vs. getting cheap leads - Helping our clients to outperform their competitors - Looking beyond the cost per lead, to the more critical metric, the cost per buyer, lifetime value and return on ad spend. We are experienced in managing ad spends for individual clients in the tens of thousands up to multi-million dollars campaigns. If you would like to maximize your results with your digital advertising spend, I would be happy to share some insights on how we can help. Email me at clients@clicksandclients.com

Greg Czajkowski (SVP of Engineering @ Snowflake) shares some of the secrets he's learned about great teams! We discuss the power of eliminating hierarchy, “going direct,” reducing energy dissipation in your team, removing friction in your org, and creating “higher innovation per time unit.” Plus dilemmas balancing velocity & quality, what to do when team size is used as proxy for power, and how to know your eng org is operating at peak output!ABOUT GREG CZAJKOWSKIGrzegorz (Greg) Czajkowski, a distributed systems and organizations scaling expert, is Senior Vice President of Engineering and Support at Snowflake. Prior to Snowflake, Greg spent 13 years at Google, where he was VP of Engineering responsible for a broad portfolio of Google Cloud data analytics and machine learning products and for internal services addressing data analytics needs of all of Google's businesses. Before Google, Greg spent six years at Sun Microsystems, working on Java runtime environments and operating systems. Greg has a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree from AGH Krakow, Poland. He holds over 50 patents."What I learned at Snowflake is  really practicing "Go Direct."  If there's something you don't like, you'd like to fix, you have to go to the person who made the decision.Usually you learn much more about the decision. There's a good conversation. Sometimes you convince the owner of the decision to do something different.I think nothing beats going direct, because any other means of trying to change a certain decision, certain point of view indirectly, is ineffective causes, frictions, and ultimately energy gets dissipated.- Greg Czajkowski   This episode is brought to you by PlusPlusPlusPlus is an all-in-one technical onboarding and internal knowledge platform that fast-tracks productivity.Learn more & sign up at plusplus.co/elcCheck out our friends at Shortcut!Shortcut is an issue tracker that offers all the functionality, without most of the complexity making it easier for you to plan, collaborate, build, and measure success.Right now, listeners of our show can get 2-months free on any paid plan.Learn more & sign up at shortcut.com/elcSHOW NOTES:Qualities and characteristics Greg's observed in great teams (2:02)Why Greg joined Snowflake (3:46)“Go direct” and other secrets to great teams (5:27)Balancing "go direct" and the chain of command (7:35)Eliminating hierarchy (9:21)Creating higher innovation per time unit in engineering teams (11:21)How do you know your eng org is operating at peak output? (13:41)Balancing business expectations and removing the dilemma between velocity & quality (15:36)Energy dissipation (18:21)Removing team friction at scale (21:20)How Snowflake's small team units optimize for intimacy, learning & dev happiness (23:50)How small teams scale up & interact across the eng org (25:56)How to address when team size is used as proxy for power & career progression (28:35)Rapid Fire Questions (30:37)

We invite our friend, Ginny Clarke, to Hacker Valley this week to talk about conscious leadership and self-awareness as a way to take our organizations to the next level. Using her prior experience at tech giants like Google and her five dimensions of leadership, Ginny explains how we can better hold the leaders in our lives accountable, what will benefit our civilization the most for future generations in the workplace, and where we should focus our efforts for diversity, equity, and inclusion.   Timecoded Guide: [05:34] Losing her parents at a young age, connecting to a spiritual guide to cope with grief and stress, and getting back in touch with ourselves in order to connect with others   [12:03] Seeing and validating the past experiences of our fellow humans, healing ourselves in order to heal organizations, and acknowledging the role of mental health in the health of our companies   [16:34] Understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion beyond just hiring, and stopping yourself from waiting for an organization to step up to an opportunity that belongs to underrepresented communities   [22:38] Shifting the metrics of how we value organizations and leadership, and seeing where the accountability issues of CEOs for what they really are   [27:48] Leaving a legacy through creativity and inspiring others to recognize how they have the power to change the world   Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsors Axonius and Uptycs for bringing this episode to life!   Life is complex. But it's not about avoiding challenges or fearing failure. Just ask Simone Biles — the greatest gymnast of all time. Want to learn more about how Simone controls complexity? Watch her video at axonius.com/simone.   With Uptycs, modern defenders can prioritize, investigate and respond to threats across the entire attack surface—all from a common solution: uptycs.com.    How do we move current leadership statistics to something much healthier?   With a depth of experience in recruiting executive leaders in a variety of organizations, Ginny shares a striking and horrifying statistic with us: 18% of leaders are considered good. Only 18% feels incredibly low, especially when a large portion of companies claims to hire the best leaders based on pedigree-level qualifications. In Ginny's opinion, leaders are not held to a high enough standard in the workplace, and aren't measured on their performance beyond basic financials. With so much more at stake, Ginny warns that companies are only as strong as their leaders, and are even weaker when they never hold those leaders accountable.   “That's why we have organizations that are, I dare say, quite fragile. It's because of the lack of leadership. They might have a lot of money, they might have really intelligent, well-educated people, but to the extent, those organizations don't have actual leaders for whom they are holding accountable for their leadership competencies.”   How do we show up better for others and really see the whole human?   We cannot improve our society as long as we continue to see ourselves as completely separate from it. This, among other world-changing views, guides Ginny towards seeing people beyond just their outward appearance, viewing them as a whole human, composed of all of their experiences. There is so much fear, anxiety, and bias, especially in the world of hiring and recruiting, and Ginny hopes to show up better for others through better accountability for our leaders and a stronger connection to ourselves.   “We, as a civilization, can't fix it as long as we're seeing it as separate from ourselves. So, that's where the self-love comes from, and the support and the sharing and the non-dualistic orientation, which defies everything about tech, right? Tech is all about the binary, the ones and zeros, and here, I'm talking about something that is far more inclusive than that.”   What have you learned from this big effort that we have going on with diversity, equity, and inclusion?   Ginny, much like many of us in tech, cares about efforts of diversity, equity, and inclusion, but believes that many companies talk the talk without ever walking the walk. When working with recruiters in large companies, Ginny discovered that many don't understand how to implement diversity in an impactful way in their organizations, beyond appearances and statistics. Encouraging colleagues to be true to their authentic selves in the workplace, she believes that now is the time to embrace diversity at work beyond the limitations of waiting for company leaders to embrace them.   “I think there's been organizational malpractice as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion. I think you got a lot of people who actually don't want to understand it, they're not going to the root cause. They're throwing money at it, they're hiring a chief diversity officer and saying, ‘Okay, you fix it.'”   What do you think people can do today to start to make an impact and move the world in a positive direction?   The secret to changing the world? Ginny believes that it's acknowledging that you have the power to change it at all. On her own spiritual journey, Ginny has discovered there's so much more to our impact on our surroundings beyond our everyday actions at work. Using examples of heightened vibrations, inspired creativity, and personal accountability, Ginny explains that your ability to change the world has never been as powerful as it is right now, as our society and civilization continue to shift towards new forms of leadership and new developments in organizations are the world.    “I want to activate and stimulate people's imagination. You know, young kids have imagination and that creativity, that spawns, that manifests, that takes hold, that becomes real, and that's how we change the world, so that it's good for all and that becomes the objective. That's my legacy. It's creating good for all.”   Guest Bio: Ginny was most recently Director of Executive Recruiting at Google from August 2016 until November 2020. In this role, she led the Diversity, Non-tech Recruiting, and the Leadership Internal Mobility teams. Before Google, Ginny was a Partner at Spencer Stuart, the global executive search firm, where she co-founded and led the firm's Global Diversity Practice.  Currently, Ginny runs Ginny Clarke, LLC, her own talent and leadership consulting business. She is also an active keynote speaker, host and creator of podcast Fifth Dimensional Leadership, and the author of Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work (2011).    --------------- Links: Stay in touch with Ginny Clarke on her website, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram   Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter   Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter   Purchase a HVS t-shirt at our shop   Continue the conversation by joining our Discord   Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Cara Shortsleeve is the CEO at The Leadership Consortium (TLC), a leadership development platform for high potential leaders with a specific expertise on accelerating women and people of color. Cara joined TLC in 2018 to launch and scale the business. Since that time, TLC has forged a strong partnership with professors at the Harvard Business School, attracted best-in-class clients (including Google, Walmart, IBM, P&G, GE, SAP and dozens more), and enabled 3,000+ executives to lead stronger teams and businesses. Prior to joining TLC, Cara spent 10+ years in various leadership roles at Google and YouTube -- most recently focussing on commercial and product strategy as a Global Director for GTM at YouTube. Previously, she helped launch and scale Google's east coast, mid-market sales presence and then led the North American mid market sales teams for Financial Services and Healthcare. Before Google, Cara managed the US running apparel business at New Balance, served as a Sales Director for Hind/Saucony, and spent three years with Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division. Cara received her BA from Williams College and her MBA from Harvard Business School. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/farah-bernier/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/farah-bernier/support

Stephanie Wong and Debi Cabrera are learning all about BigLake from guests Gaurav Saxena and Justin Levandoski of the BigQuery team. BigLake offers unified data management from both data warehouses and data lakes. What exactly is the difference between a data warehouse and a data lake? Justin explains what a data lake is, how they came to be, and the benefits. Each data option has its cons too, like the limitations of data lakes for enterprise use. Enter BigLake built on BigQuery, which helps enterprise clients manage and analyze their data from both data warehouses and data lakes. The best features of BigQuery are now available for Google Cloud Storage and across multi-cloud solutions. Guarav describes BigLake behind the scenes and how the principles of BigQuery's data management can now be used for open file formats in BigLake. It's BigQuery for more data formats, Justin explains. BigLake solves many data problems quickly with a special emphasis on improving security. Our guests talk specifically about clients who gain the most from using BigLake, especially those looking to analyze distributed data and those who need easy and fast security and compliance solutions. With tightened security, BigLake offers access delegation and secure APIs that work over object storage. We hear about the user experience and how easy it is to get started, especially for customers already familiar with and using other GCP products. Google's advocacy of open source projects means many clients are coming in with workloads built with open source software. BigLake supports multi-cloud projects so that tables can be built on top of any data system. No matter the format of your data, you can run analytics with BigLake. We talk more about the security features of BigLake and how easy it is to unify data warehouses and data lakes with optimal data security. The customers have helped shape BigLake, and Gaurav describes how these clients are using this data software. We hear about integration with BigQuery Omni and Dataplex and how BigLake is different. In the future, Google will continue to make simple, effective solutions for data management and analytics, building further off of BigQuery. Gaurav Saxena Gaurav Saxena is a product management lead at Google BigQuery. He has 12+ years of experience building products at the intersection of cloud, data and AI. Before Google, Gaurav led product management at Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services for some of the most widely used cloud offerings in storage and data. Justin Levandoski Justin is a tech lead/manager in BigQuery leading BigLake and other projects pushing the frontier of BigQuery. Prior to Google, just worked on Amazon Aurora and was part of the Database research group at Microsoft Research. Cool things of the week Your ultimate guide to Speech on Google Cloud blog Announcing the Climate Innovation Challenge—grants to support cutting-edge earth research blog Interview BigLake site BigQuery site Cloud Storage site Spark site Apache Ranger site BigQuery Omni docs Apache Iceberg site Delta Lake site Presto site TensorFlow site Dataplex site What's something cool you're working on? Debi is working on a series about automatic DLP. Cloud Data Loss Prevention is now automatic and allows you to scan data across your whole org with the click of one button! Hosts Stephanie Wong and Debi Cabrera

Today, we're going to talk about Google Alerts. It's a free tool that I've been using for many, many years now. Before Google, I had to pay for this service and you can use it for reputation management, publicity, tracking competitors and making your hobbies tax deductible, which if you've been listening to me for a while, you know I harp on that. So I'm going to tell you how to set up Google Alerts, what you can use it for, and I'll give you some cool tricks to better target your results. Screw The Commute Podcast Show Notes Episode 576 How To Automate Your Business - https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/ Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Higher Education Webinar – https://screwthecommute.com/webinars See Tom's Stuff – https://linktr.ee/antionandassociates 00:23 Tom's introduction to Google Alerts 02:15 Publicity 04:43 Keeping track of your brand 06:28 Keeping track of your competitors 07:11 Use for business sales presentations and speeches 08:17 Blog posting 09:10 Maybe you've invented some fire safety device 11:13 Hobbies 13:30 Celebrities Entrepreneurial Resources Mentioned in This Podcast Higher Education Webinar - https://screwthecommute.com/webinars Screw The Commute - https://screwthecommute.com/ Screw The Commute Podcast App - https://screwthecommute.com/app/ College Ripoff Quiz - https://imtcva.org/quiz Know a young person for our Youth Episode Series? Send an email to Tom! - orders@antion.com Have a Roku box? Find Tom's Public Speaking Channel there! - https://channelstore.roku.com/details/267358/the-public-speaking-channel How To Automate Your Business - https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/ Internet Marketing Retreat and Joint Venture Program - https://greatinternetmarketingtraining.com/ KickStartCart - http://www.kickstartcart.com/ Copywriting901 - https://copywriting901.com/ Disabilities Page - https://imtcva.org/disabilities/ Scam Brigade - https://scambrigade.com/ Refining web searches - https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 Creating Google Alerts - https://www.google.com/alerts Email Tom: Tom@ScrewTheCommute.com Internet Marketing Training Center - https://imtcva.org/ Related Episodes Keyword Research - https://screwthecommute.com/1/ Voice Search - https://screwthecommute.com/130/ Hobbies - https://screwthecommute.com/169/ David Meerman Scott - https://screwthecommute.com/402/ Genesis Amaris Kemp - https://screwthecommute.com/575/ More Entrepreneurial Resources for Home Based Business, Lifestyle Business, Passive Income, Professional Speaking and Online Business I discovered a great new headline / subject line / subheading generator that will actually analyze which headlines and subject lines are best for your market. I negotiated a deal with the developer of this revolutionary and inexpensive software. Oh, and it's good on Mac and PC. Go here: http://jvz1.com/c/41743/183906 The Wordpress Ecourse. Learn how to Make World Class Websites for $20 or less. https://screwthecommute.com/wordpressecourse/ Join our Private Facebook Group! One week trial for only a buck and then $37 a month, or save a ton with one payment of $297 for a year. Click the image to see all the details and sign up or go to https://www.greatinternetmarketing.com/screwthecommute/ After you sign up, check your email for instructions on getting in the group.

In this podcast, Before Google, Megan Owen from Newcastle Libraries and Effie Karageorgos and Chip Van Dyke, Lecturers in History from the University of Newcastle will discuss what impact the internet and Apps have had on their fields of expertise. Be reminded, or discover, where we found recipes, phone numbers, music and self-diagnosed our illnesses before the magic of Google fell into our palms. This is a Newcastle Libraries REAL Production produced by Newcastle Podcast Station  Producers: Melanie Sargeant & Fyona Smith.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you need to find something on the Web, it's as simple as going to Google and typing whatever you're looking for. You don't even think twice about whether or not you'll get useful results. Heck, you don't even think twice about whether or not the Google webpage will actually load. But early search engines weren't nearly as reliable.Before Google perfected web search, lots of search engines were trying to figure out the best way to help people find what they needed online, and they weren't always reliable. To help solve that problem, a graduate student at the University of Washington named Erik Selberg developed a different type of search engine. It was a search engine that searched other search engines -- a "metasearch engine" -- aggregating results across the different platforms and pulling them together in one place. For users, this meant if one search engine wasn't working or giving good results, they could still find what they needed.Sure, the idea of a metasearch engine seems strange today, but MetaCrawler solved a critical problem in the early days of the Web. On this episode of Web Masters, you'll learn how -- and why -- Erik built it.For a complete transcript of the episode, click here.

Welcome back to the Verified Geek podcast ! This week, my guest is Glenn Jacobs. Glenn has an incredible journey in Tech, starting from a young age by learning how to code using magazines. He created the first Spice Girls website while studying computer science at university! He eventually found out that the website was ranking no 1 in Atlavista. Yes! Before Google! Eventually, he started his own agency doing websites and e-commerce services. Glenn's latest creation is GetCandy. What is it?  and how can you use it for your own benefit? What is Laravel? Enjoy!You can find Glenn on linkedin as Glenn Jacobs and take a look at GetCandy at https://getcandy.io/

The best careers are ones that include twists, turns, barriers, and breakthroughs. And today we get to chat with Michelle Holko, a strategic innovator working at the intersection of biology, technology, and security. She has built a career integrating security into biotechnology and health to promote innovations in biomedical research. In our conversation, we chat about the incredible work she has been able to contribute to over the course of her career. Subscribe to the Titus Talks newsletter! Michelle is currently a Principal Architect and Scientist at Google working as the technical lead with the Google Cloud healthcare and life sciences team. Before Google, she served in government as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF), where she worked with the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of Defense (DoD) Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP), the NIH's All of Us Research Program, HHS BARDA, OSTP, and NSC. Whew, that was all at one job! Prior to joining the PIF program, she worked with DARPA and HHS BARDA, and was a fellow in the 2018 cohort of Johns Hopkins University's Center for Health Security's Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative where I first met Michelle. Michelle was trained in genomics and bioinformatics, and she has worked on pandemic prevention and preparedness, infectious diseases, cancer, biosurveillance, biosecurity, data science, emerging technologies, health technologies, precision medicine, cybersecurity, and machine learning/artificial intelligence. Basically, if it's been a hot topic, she's worked on it! Her advice for our listeners? Lean into experiences that scare you, pay attention to what you don't like just as much as what you do like, let your good work speak for you, and try to be like water. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did! Find Michelle on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-holko/ Read more about the PIF program - https://presidentialinnovationfellows.gov/ Check out Michelle's PIF profile - https://presidentialinnovationfellows.gov/fellows/michelle-holko/

Today's guest is Neha Palmer, CEO of TeraWatt Instructure.TeraWatt Infrastructure is building tomorrow's permanent EV charging infrastructure through a robust combination of property assets, financing vehicles, and deep energy expertise. The company designs, operates and owns on-site distributed energy systems that take the cost and complexity out of EV charging infrastructure while providing market protection and upside opportunities through capital backing and ownership. Neha brings two decades of leadership experience in the energy industry to her role at TeraWatt. Most recently, she led energy strategy for Google's global data centers. As the first hire focused on data center energy, Neha built out and led the team developing electric infrastructure and electricity procurement for the global fleet, covering dozens of sites over four continents. Before Google, Neha held leadership roles at Pacific Gas & Electric and worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. She holds an MBA in Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS in Civil Engineering from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.In this episode, Neha shares what led her to focus on energy, her role as CEO at TeraWatt, and the startup's business model and customer base. We also compare the progress between transportation fleets and passenger vehicles, how Neha thinks about private v public EV charging infrastructure, and the way government can accelerate the EV revolution. This is a must-listen episode for those interested in understanding more about the future of electrifying transportation.Enjoy the show!You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 or @mcjpod and email at info@myclimatejourney.co, where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Episode recorded January 10th, 2022To learn more about TeraWatt Infrastructure, visit: https://terawattinfrastructure.com/To learn more about this episode, visit: https://myclimatejourney.co/ctss-episodes/terawatt-infrastructure

In their lifetime, the average American works 90,000 hours. That astonishing amount exemplifies why it's critical to pick a career that fulfills both your passion and your purpose. But what if you don't know what that career should be? In this episode of PCTY Talks, Ginny Clarke and host Shari Simpson discuss how you define for yourself what your career looks like through self-reflection, competencies and resume writing techniques. Guest: Ginny Clarke, CEO | Talent Strategist | Organizational Builder Ginny Clarke was Director, Executive Recruiting at Google from August 2016 until November 2020. In this role, she led the Diversity, Internal Mobility and the Non-tech Recruiting teams. Her team of North American recruiters found and hired senior leaders (Directors +) for finance, sales, marketing and other G&A functions across Google. Before Google, Ginny was a Partner at Spencer Stuart, the global executive search firm, based in Chicago. For 12 years, she worked in the firm's Financial Services and Financial Officer Practices, and co-founded and led Spencer Stuart's Global Diversity Practice. She left Spencer Stuart to write a book titled Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work, which was published in 2011. The book provides a framework that empowers individuals to plot and assess their professional competencies, and strategically navigate their careers. After the book was published, Ginny ran her own executive search and talent management firm for 3 years before becoming a Senior Partner for Executive Search in the U.S. at Knightsbridge, a Canadian human capital solutions firm. Mentioned in the episode: Website: GinnyClarke.com Book: Career Mapping Podcast: Fifth Dimensional Leadership

About MilesAs Chief Technology Officer at SADA, Miles Ward leads SADA's cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization; reinforcing our engineering culture; and engaging with customers on their most complex and ambitious plans around Google Cloud.Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Cloud. He founded the Google Cloud's Solutions Architecture practice, launched hundreds of solutions, built Style-Detection and Hummus AI APIs, built CloudHero, designed the pricing and TCO calculators, and helped thousands of customers like Twitter who migrated the world's largest Hadoop cluster to public cloud and Audi USA who re-platformed to k8s before it was out of alpha, and helped Banco Itau design the intercloud architecture for the bank of the future.Before Google, Miles helped build the AWS Solutions Architecture team. He wrote the first AWS Well-Architected framework, proposed Trusted Advisor and the Snowmobile, invented GameDay, worked as a core part of the Obama for America 2012 “tech” team, helped NASA stream the Curiosity Mars Rover landing, and rebooted Skype in a pinch.Earning his Bachelor of Science in Rhetoric and Media Studies from Willamette University, Miles is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur who also plays a mean electric sousaphone.Links: SADA.com: https://sada.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/milesward Email: miles@sada.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: It seems like there is a new security breach every day. Are you confident that an old SSH key, or a shared admin account, isn't going to come back and bite you? If not, check out Teleport. Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all of your infrastructure. The open source Teleport Access Plane consolidates everything you need for secure access to your Linux and Windows servers—and I assure you there is no third option there. Kubernetes clusters, databases, and internal applications like AWS Management Console, Yankins, GitLab, Grafana, Jupyter Notebooks, and more. Teleport's unique approach is not only more secure, it also improves developer productivity. To learn more visit: goteleport.com. And not, that is not me telling you to go away, it is: goteleport.com.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Redis, the company behind the incredibly popular open source database that is not the bind DNS server. If you're tired of managing open source Redis on your own, or you're using one of the vanilla cloud caching services, these folks have you covered with the go to manage Redis service for global caching and primary database capabilities; Redis Enterprise. To learn more and deploy not only a cache but a single operational data platform for one Redis experience, visit redis.com/hero. Thats r-e-d-i-s.com/hero. And my thanks to my friends at Redis for sponsoring my ridiculous non-sense.  Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. I am joined today, once again by my friend and yours, Miles Ward, who's the CTO at SADA. However, he is, as I think of him, the closest thing the Google Cloud world has to Corey Quinn. Now, let's be clear, not the music and dancing part that is Forrest Brazeal, but Forrest works at Google Cloud, whereas Miles is a reasonably salty third-party. Miles, thank you for coming back and letting me subject you to that introduction.Miles: Corey, I appreciate that introduction. I am happy to provide substantial salt. It is easy, as I play brass instruments that produce my spit in high volumes. It's the most disgusting part of any possible introduction. For the folks in the audience, I am surrounded by a collection of giant sousaphones, tubas, trombones, baritones, marching baritones, trumpets, and pocket trumpets.So, Forrest threw down the gauntlet and was like, I can play a keyboard, and sing, and look cute at the same time. And so I decided to fail at all three. We put out a new song just a bit ago that's, like, us thanking all of our customers and partners, covering Kool & the Gang “Celebration,” and I neither look good, [laugh] play piano, or smiling, or [capturing 00:01:46] any of the notes; I just play the bass part, it's all I got to do.Corey: So, one thing that I didn't get to talk a lot about because it's not quite in my universe, for one, and for another, it is during the pre re:Invent—pre:Invent, my nonsense thing—run up, which is Google Cloud Next.Miles: Yes.Corey: And my gag a few years ago is that I'm not saying that Google is more interested in what they're building and what they're shipping, but even their conference is called Next. Buh dum, hiss.Miles: [laugh].Corey: So, I didn't really get to spend a lot of attention on the Google Cloud releases that came out this year, but given that SADA is in fact the, I believe, largest Google Cloud partner on the internet, and thus the world—Miles: [unintelligible 00:02:27] new year, three years in a row back, baby.Corey: Fantastic. I assume someone's watch got stuck or something. But good work. So, you have that bias in the way that I have a bias, which is your business is focused around Google Cloud the way that mine is focused on AWS, but neither of us is particularly beholden to that given company. I mean, you do have the not getting fired as partner, but that's a bit of a heavy lift; I don't think I can mouth off well enough to get you there.So, we have a position of relative independence. So, you were tracking Google Next, the same way that I track re:Invent. Well, not quite the same way I track re:Invent; there are some significant differences. What happened at Cloud Next 2021, that the worst of us should be paying attention to?Miles: Sure. I presented 10% of the material at the first re:Invent. There are 55 sessions; I did six. And so I have been at Cloud events for a really long time and really excited about Google's willingness to dive into demos in a way that I think they have been a little shy about. Kelsey Hightower is the kind of notable deep exception to that. Historically, he's been ready to dive into the, kind of, heavy hands-on piece but—Corey: Wait, those were demos? [Thought 00:03:39] was just playing Tetris on stage for the love of it.Miles: [laugh]. No. And he really codes all that stuff up, him and the whole team.Corey: Oh, absol—I'm sorry. If I ever grow up, I wish to be Kelsey Hightower.Miles: [laugh]. You and me both. So, he had kind of led the charge. We did a couple of fun little demos while I was there, but they've really gotten a lot further into that, and I think are doing a better job of packaging the benefits to not just developers, but also operators and data scientists and the broader roles in the cloud ecosystem from the new features that are being launched. And I think, different than the in-person events where there's 10, 20,000, 40,000 people in the audience paying attention, I think they have to work double-hard to capture attention and get engineers to tune in to what's being launched.But if you squint and look close, there are some, I think, very interesting trends that sit in the back of some of the very first launches in what I think are going to be whole veins of launches from Google over the course of the next several years that we are working really hard to track along with and make sure we're extracting maximum value from for our customers.Corey: So, what was it that they announced that is worth paying attention to? Now, through the cacophony of noise, one announcement that [I want to note 00:04:49] was tied to Next was the announcement that GME group, I believe, is going to be putting their futures exchange core trading systems on Google Cloud. At which point that to me—and I know people are going to yell at me, and I don't even slightly care—that is the last nail in the coffin of the idea that well, Google is going to turn this off in a couple years. Sorry, no. That is not a thing that's going to happen. Worst case, they might just stop investing it as aggressively as they are now, but even that would be just a clown-shoes move that I have a hard time envisioning.Miles: Yeah, you're talking now over a dozen, over ten year, over a billion-dollar commitments. So, you've got to just really, really hate your stock price if you're going to decide to vaporize that much shareholder value, right? I mean, we think that, in Google, stock price is a material fraction of the recognition of the growth trajectory for cloud, which is now basically just third place behind YouTube. And I think you can do the curve math, it's not like it's going to take long.Corey: Right. That requires effectively ejecting Thomas Kurian as the head of Google Cloud and replacing him with the former SVP of Bad Decisions at Yahoo.Miles: [laugh]. Sure. Google has no shyness about continuing to rotate leadership. I was there through three heads of Google Cloud, so I don't expect that Thomas will be the last although I think he may well go down in history as having been the best. The level of rotation to the focuses that I think are most critical, getting enterprise customers happy, successful, committed, building macroscale systems, in systems that are critical to the core of the business on GCP has grown at an incredible rate under his stewardship. So, I think he's doing a great job.Corey: He gets a lot of criticism—often from Googlers—when I wind up getting the real talk from them, which is, “Can you tell me what you really think?” Their answer is, “No,” I'm like, “Okay, next question. Can I go out and buy you eight beers and then”— and it's like, “Yeah.” And the answer that I get pretty commonly is that he's brought too much Oracle into Google. And okay, that sounds like a bad thing because, you know, Oracle, but let's be clear here, but what are you talking about specifically? And what they say distills down to engineers are no longer the end-all be-all of everything that Google Cloud. Engineers don't get to make sales decisions, or marketing decisions, or in some cases, product decisions. And that is not how Google has historically been run, and they don't like the change. I get it, but engineering is not the only hard thing in the world and it's not the only business area that builds value, let's be clear on this. So, I think that the things that they don't like are in fact, what Google absolutely needs.Miles: I think, one, the man is exceptionally intimidating and intentionally just hyper, hyper attentive to his business. So, one of my best employees, Brad [Svee 00:07:44], he worked together with me to lay out what was the book of our whole department, my team of 86 people there. What are we about? What do we do? And like I wanted this as like a memoriam to teach new hires as got brought in. So, this is, like, 38 pages of detail about our process, our hiring method, our promotional approach, all of it. I showed that to my new boss who had come in at the time, and he thought some of the pictures looked good. When we showed it to TK, he read every paragraph. I watched him highlight the paragraphs as he went through, and he read it twice as fast as I can read the thing. I think he does that to everybody's documents, everywhere. So, there's a level of just manual rigor that he's brought to the practice that was certainly not there before that. So, that alone, it can be intimidating for folks, but I think people that are high performance find that very attractive.Corey: Well, from my perspective, he is clearly head and shoulders above Adam Selipsky, and Scott Guthrie—the respective heads of AWS and Azure—for one key reason: He is the only one of those three people who follows me on Twitter. And—Miles: [laugh].Corey: —honestly, that is how I evaluate vendors.Miles: That's the thing. That's the only measure, yep. I've worked on for a long time with Selipsky, and I think that it will be interesting to see whether Adam's approach to capital allocation—where he really, I think, thinks of himself as the manager of thousands of startups, as opposed to a manager of a global business—whether that's a more efficient process for creating value for customers, then, where I think TK is absolutely trying to build a much more unified, much more singular platform. And a bunch of the launches really speak to that, right? So, one of the product announcements that I think is critical is this idea of the global distributed cloud, Google Distributed Cloud.We started with Kubernetes. And then you layer on to that, okay, we'll take care of Kubernetes for you; we call that Anthos. We'll build a bunch of structural controls and features into Anthos to make it so that you can really deal with stuff in a global way. Okay, what does that look like further? How do we get out into edge environments? Out into diverse hardware? How do we partner up with everybody to make sure that, kind of like comparing Apple's approach to Google's approach, you have an Android ecosystem of Kubernetes providers instead of just one place you can buy an outpost. That's generally the idea of GDC. I think that's a spot where you're going to watch Google actually leverage the muscle that it already built in understanding open-source dynamics and understanding collaboration between companies as opposed to feeling like it's got to be built here. We've got to sell it here. It's got to have our brand on it.Corey: I think that there's a stupendous and extreme story that is still unfolding over at Google Cloud. Now, re:Invent this year, they wound up talking all about how what they were rolling out was a focus on improving primitives. And they're right. I love their managed database service that they launched because it didn't exist.Miles: Yeah Werner's slide, “It's primitives, not frameworks.” I was like, I think customers want solutions, not frameworks or primitives. [laugh]. What's your plan?Corey: Yeah. However, I take a different perspective on all of this, which is that is a terrific spin on the big headline launches all missed the re:Invent timeline, and… oops, so now we're just going to talk about these other things instead. And that's great, but then they start talking about industrial IOT, and mainframe migrations, and the idea of private 5G, and running fleets of robots. And it's—Miles: Yeah, that's a cool product.Corey: Which one? I'm sorry, they're all very different things.Miles: Private 5G.Corey: Yeah, if someone someday will explain to me how it differs from Wavelength, but that's neither here nor there. You're right, they're all interesting, but none of them are actually doing the thing that I do, which is build websites, [unintelligible 00:11:31] looking for web services, it kind of says it in the name. And it feels like it's very much broadening into everything, and it's very difficult for me to identify—and if I have trouble that I guarantee you customers do—of, which services are for me and which are very much not? In some cases, the only answer to that is to check the pricing. I thought Kendra, their corporate information search thing was for me, then it's 7500 bucks a month to get started with that thing, and that is, “I can hire an internal corporate librarian to just go and hunt through our Google Drive.” Great.Miles: Yeah.Corey: So, there are—or our Dropbox, or our Slack. We have, like, five different information repositories, and this is how corporate nonsense starts, let me assure you.Miles: Yes. We call that luxury SaaS, you must enjoy your dozens of overlapping bills for, you know, what Workspace gives you as a single flat rate.Corey: Well, we have [unintelligible 00:12:22] a lot of this stuff, too. Google Drive is great, but we use Dropbox for holding anything that touches our customer's billing information, just because I—to be clear, I do not distrust Google, but it also seems a little weird to put the confidential billing information for one of their competitors on there to thing if a customer were to ask about it. So, it's the, like, I don't believe anyone's doing anything nefarious, but let's go ahead and just make sure, in this case.Miles: Go further man. Vimeo runs on GCP. You think YouTube doesn't want to look at Vimeo stats? Like they run everything on GCP, so they have to have arrived at a position of trust somehow. Oh, I know how it's called encryption. You've heard of encryption before? It's the best.Corey: Oh, yes. I love these rumors that crop up every now and again that Amazon is going to start scanning all of its customer content, somehow. It's first, do you have any idea how many compute resources that would take and to if they can actually do that and access something you're storing in there, against their attestations to the contrary, then that's your story because one of them just makes them look bad, the other one utterly destroys their entire business.Miles: Yeah.Corey: I think that that's the one that gets the better clicks. So no, they're not doing that.Miles: No, they're not doing that. Another product launch that I thought was super interesting that describes, let's call it second place—the third place will be the one where we get off into the technical deep end—but there's a whole set of coordinated work they're calling Cortex. So, let's imagine you go to a customer, they say, “I want to understand what's happening with my business.” You go, “Great.” So, you use SAP, right? So, you're a big corporate shop, and that's your infrastructure of choice. There are a bunch of different options at that layer.When you set up SAP, one of the advantages that something like that has is they have, kind of, pre-built configurations for roughly your business, but whatever behaviors SAP doesn't do, right, say, data warehousing, advanced analytics, regression and projection and stuff like that, maybe that's somewhat outside of the core wheelhouse for SAP, you would expect like, oh okay, I'll bolt on BigQuery. I'll build that stuff over there. We'll stream the data between the two. Yeah, I'm off to the races, but the BigQuery side of the house doesn't have this like bitching menu that says, “You're a retailer, and so you probably want to see these 75 KPIs, and you probably want to chew up your SKUs in exactly this way. And here's some presets that make it so that this is operable out of the box.”So, they are doing the three way combination: Consultancies plus ISVs plus Google products, and doing all the pre-work configuration to go out to a customer and go I know what you probably just want. Why don't I just give you the whole thing so that it does the stuff that you want? That I think—if that's the very first one, this little triangle between SAP, and Big Query, and a bunch of consultancies like mine, you have to imagine they go a lot further with that a lot faster, right? I mean, what does that look like when they do it with Epic, when they go do it with Go just generally, when they go do it with Apache? I've heard of that software, right? Like, there's no reason not to bundle up what the obvious choices are for a bunch of these combinations.Corey: The idea of moving up the stack and offering full on solutions, that's what customers actually want. “Well, here's a bunch of things you can do to wind up wiring together to build a solution,” is, “Cool. Then I'm going to go hire a company who's already done that is going to sell it to me at a significant markup because I just don't care.” I pay way more to WP Engine than I would to just run WordPress myself on top of AWS or Google Cloud. In fact, it is on Google Cloud, but okay.Miles: You and me both, man. WP Engine is the best. I—Corey: It's great because—Miles: You're welcome. I designed a bunch of the hosting on the back of that.Corey: Oh, yeah. But it's also the—I—well, it costs a little bit more that way. Yeah, but guess what's not—guess what's more expensive than that bill, is my time spent doing the care and feeding of this stuff. I like giving money to experts and making it their problem.Miles: Yeah. I heard it said best, Lego is an incredible business. I love their product, and you can build almost any toy with it. And they have not displaced all other plastic toy makers.Corey: Right.Miles: Some kids just want to buy a little car. [laugh].Corey: Oh, yeah, you can build anything you want out of Lego bricks, which are great, which absolutely explains why they are a reference AWS customer.Miles: Yeah, they're great. But they didn't beat all other toy companies worldwide, and eliminate the rest of that market because they had the better primitive, right? These other solutions are just as valuable, just as interesting, tend to have much bigger markets. Lego is not the largest toy manufacturer in the world. They are not in the top five of toy manufacturers in the world, right?Like, so chasing that thread, and getting all the way down into the spots where I think many of the cloud providers on their own, internally, had been very uncomfortable. Like, you got to go all the way to building this stuff that they need for that division, inside of that company, in that geo, in that industry? That's maybe, like, a little too far afield. I think Google has a natural advantage in its more partner-oriented approach to create these combinations that lower the cost to them and to customers to getting out of that solution quick.Corey: So, getting into the weeds of Google Next, I suppose, rather than a whole bunch of things that don't seem to apply to anyone except the four or five companies that really could use it, what things did Google release that make the lives of people building, you know, web apps better?Miles: This is the one. So, I'm at Amazon, hanging out as a part of the team that built up the infrastructure for the Obama campaign in 2012, and there are a bunch of Googlers there, and we are fighting with databases. We are fighting so hard, in fact, with RDS that I think we are the only ones that [Raju 00:17:51] has ever allowed to SSH into our RDS instances to screw with them.Corey: Until now, with the advent of RDS Custom, meaning that you can actually get in as root; where that hell that lands between RDS and EC2 is ridiculous. I just know that RDS can now run containers.Miles: Yeah. I know how many things we did in there that were good for us, and how many things we did in there that were bad for us. And I have to imagine, this is not a feature that they really ought to let everybody have, myself included. But I will say that what all of the Googlers that I talk to, you know, at the first blush, were I'm the evil Amazon guy in to, sort of, distract them and make them build a system that, you know, was very reliable and ended up winning an election was that they had a better database, and they had Spanner, and they didn't understand why this whole thing wasn't sitting on Spanner. So, we looked, and I read the white paper, and then I got all drooly, and I was like, yes, that is a much better database than everybody else's database, and I don't understand why everybody else isn't on it. Oh, there's that one reason, but you've heard of it: No other software works with it, anywhere in the world, right? It's utterly proprietary to Google. Yes, they were kind—Corey: Oh, you want to migrate it off somewhere else, or a fraction of it? Great. Step one, redo your data architecture.Miles: Yeah, take all of my software everywhere, rewrite every bit of it. And, oh all those commercial applications? Yeah, forget all those, you got, too. Right? It was very much where Google was eight years ago. So, for me, it was immensely meaningful to see the launch at Next where they described what they are building—and have now built; we have alpha access to it—a Postgres layer for Spanner.Corey: Is that effectively you have to treat it as Postgres at all times, or is it multimodal access?Miles: You can get in and tickle it like Spanner, if you want to tickle it like Spanner. And in reality, Spanner is ANSI SQL compliant; you're still writing SQL, you just don't have to talk to it like a REST endpoint, or a GRPC endpoint, or something; you can, you know, have like a—Corey: So, similar to Azure's Cosmos DB, on some level, except for the part where you can apparently look at other customers' data in that thing?Miles: [laugh]. Exactly. Yeah, you will not have a sweeping discovery of incredible security violations in the structure Spanner, in that it is the control system that Google uses to place every ad, and so it does not suck. You can't put a trillion-dollar business on top of a database and not have it be safe. That's kind of a thing.Corey: The thing that I find is the most interesting area of tech right now is there's been this rise of distributed databases. Yugabyte—or You-ji-byte—Pla-netScale—or PlanetScale, depending on how you pronounce these things.Miles: [laugh]. Yeah, why, why is G such an adversarial consonant? I don't understand why we've all gotten to this place.Corey: Oh, yeah. But at the same time, it's—so you take a look at all these—and they all are speaking Postgres; it is pretty clear that ‘Postgres-squeal' is the thing that is taking over the world as far as databases go. If I were building something from scratch that used—Miles: For folks in the back, that's PostgreSQL, for the rest of us, it's okay, it's going to be, all right.Corey: Same difference. But yeah, it's the thing that is eating the world. Although recently, I've got to say, MongoDB is absolutely stepping up in a bunch of really interesting ways.Miles: I mean, I think the 4.0 release, I'm the guy who wrote the MongoDB on AWS Best Practices white paper, and I would grab a lot of customer's and—Corey: They have to change it since then of, step one: Do not use DocumentDB; if you want to use Mongo, use Mongo.Miles: Yeah, that's right. No, there were a lot of customers I was on the phone with where Mongo had summarily vaporized their data, and I think they have made huge strides in structural reliability over the course of—you know, especially this 4.0 launch, but the last couple of years, for sure.Corey: And with all the people they've been hiring from AWS, it's one of those, “Well, we'll look at this now who's losing important things from production?”Miles: [laugh]. Right? So, maybe there's only actually five humans who know how to do operations, and we just sort of keep moving around these different companies.Corey: That's sort of my assumption on these things. But Postgres, for those who are not looking to depart from the relational model, is eating the world. And—Miles: There's this, like, basic emotional thing. My buddy Martin, who set up MySQL, and took it public, and then promptly got it gobbled up by the Oracle people, like, there was a bet there that said, hey, there's going to be a real open database, and then squish, like, the man came and got it. And so like, if you're going to be an independent, open-source software developer, I think you're probably not pushing your pull requests to our friends at Oracle, that seems weird. So instead, I think Postgres has gobbled up the best minds on that stuff.And it works. It's reliable, it's consistent, and it's functional in all these different, sort of, reapplications and subdivisions, right? I mean, you have to sort of squint real hard, but down there in the guts of Redshift, that's Postgres, right? Like, there's Postgres behind all sorts of stuff. So, as an interface layer, I'm not as interested about how it manages to be successful at bossing around hardware and getting people the zeros and ones that they ask for back in a timely manner.I'm interested in it as a compatibility standard, right? If I have software that says, “I need to have Postgres under here and then it all will work,” that creates this layer of interop that a bunch of other products can use. So, folks like PlanetScale, and Yugabyte can say, “No, no, no, it's cool. We talk Postgres; that'll make it so your application works right. You can bring a SQL alchemy and plug it into this, or whatever your interface layer looks like.”That's the spot where, if I can trade what is a fairly limited global distribution, global transactional management on literally ridiculously unlimited scalability and zero operations, I can handle the hard parts of running a database over to somebody else, but I get my layer, and my software talks to it, I think that's a huge step.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by my friends at Cloud Academy. Something special just for you folks. If you missed their offer on Black Friday or Cyber Monday or whatever day of the week doing sales it is—good news! They've opened up their Black Friday promotion for a very limited time. Same deal, $100 off a yearly plan, $249 a year for the highest quality cloud and tech skills content. Nobody else can get this because they have a assured me this not going to last for much longer. Go to CloudAcademy.com, hit the "start free trial" button on the homepage, and use the Promo code cloud at checkout. That's c-l-o-u-d, like loud, what I am, with a “C” in front of it. It's a free trial, so you'll get 7 days to try it out to make sure it's really a good fit for you, nothing to lose except your ignorance about cloud. My thanks again for sponsoring my ridiculous nonsense.Corey: I think that there's a strong movement toward building out on something like this. If it works, just because—well, I'm not multiregion today, but I can easily see a world in which I'd want to be. So, great. How do you approach the decision between—once this comes out of alpha; let's be clear. Let's turn this into something that actually ships, and no, Google that does not mean slapping a beta label on it for five years is the answer here; you actually have to stand behind this thing—but once it goes GA—Miles: GA is a good thing.Corey: Yeah. How do you decide between using that, or PlanetScale? Or Yugabyte?Miles: Or Cockroach or or SingleStore, right? I mean, there's a zillion of them that sit in this market. I think the core of the decision making for me is in every team you're looking at what skills do you bring to bear and what problem that you're off to go solve for customers? Do the nuances of these products make it easier to solve? So, I think there are some products that the nature of what you're building isn't all that dependent on one part of the application talking to another one, or an event happening someplace else mattering to an event over here. But some applications, that's, like, utterly critical, like, totally, totally necessary.So, we worked with a bunch of like Forex exchange trading desks that literally turn off 12 hours out of the day because they can only keep it consistent in one geographical location right near the main exchanges in New York. So, that's a place where I go, “Would you like to trade all day?” And they go, “Yes, but I can't because databases.” So, “Awesome. Let's call the folks on the Spanner side. They can solve that problem.”I go, “Would you like to trade all day and rewrite all your software?” And they go, “No.” And I go, “Oh, okay. What about trade all day, but not rewrite all your software?” There we go. Now, we've got a solution to that kind of problem.So like, we built this crazy game, like, totally other end of the ecosystem with the Dragon Ball Z people, hysterical; your like—you literally play like Rock, Paper, Scissors with your phone, and if you get a rock, I throw a fireball, and you get a paper, then I throw a punch, and we figure out who wins. But they can play these games like Europe versus Japan, thousands of people on each side, real-time, and it works.Corey: So, let's be clear, I have lobbied a consistent criticism at Google for a while now, which is the Google Cloud global control plane. So, you wind up with things like global service outages from time to time, you wind up with this thing is now broken for everyone everywhere. And that, for a lot of these use cases, is a problem. And I said that AWS's approach to regional isolation is the right way to do it. And I do stand by that assessment, except for the part where it turns out there's a lot of control plane stuff that winds up single tracking through us-east-1, as we learned in the great us-east-1 outage of 2021.Miles: Yeah, when I see customers move from data center to AWS, what they expect is a higher count of outages that lasts less time. That's the trade off, right? There's going to be more weird spurious stuff, and maybe—maybe—if they're lucky, that outage will be over there at some other region they're not using. I see almost exactly the same promise happening to folks that come from AWS—and in particular from Azure—over onto GCP, which is, there will be probably a higher frequency of outages at a per product level, right? So, like sometimes, like, some weird product takes a screw sideways, where there is structural interdependence between quite a few products—we actually published a whole internal structural map of like, you know, it turns out that Cloud SQL runs on top of GCE not on GKE, so you can expect if GKE goes sideways, Cloud SQL is probably not going to go sideways; the two aren't dependent on each other.Corey: You take the status page and Amazon FreeRTOS in a region is having an outage today or something like that. You're like, “Oh, no. That's terrible. First, let me go look up what the hell that is.” And I'm not using it? Absolutely not. Great. As hyperscalers, well, hyperscale, they're always things that are broken in different ways, in different locations, and if you had a truly accurate status page, it would all be red all the time, or varying shades of red, which is not helpful. So, I understand the challenge there, but very often, it's a partition that is you are not exposed to, or the way that you've architected things, ideally, means it doesn't really matter. And that is a good thing. So, raw outage counts don't solve that. I also maintain that if I were to run in a single region of AWS or even a single AZ, in all likelihood, I will have a significantly better uptime across the board than I would if I ran it myself. Because—Miles: Oh, for sure.Corey: —it is—Miles: For sure they're way better at ops than you are. Me, right?Corey: Of course.Miles: Right? Like, ridiculous.Corey: And they got that way, by learning. Like, I think in 2022, it is unlikely that there's going to be an outage in an AWS availability zone by someone tripping over a power cable, whereas I have actually done that. So, there's a—to be clear in a data center, not an AWS facility; that would not have flown. So, there is the better idea of of going in that direction. But the things like Route 53 is control plane single-tracking through the us-east-1, if you can't make DNS changes in an outage scenario, you may as well not have a DR plan, for most use cases.Miles: To be really clear, it was a part of the internal documentation on the AWS side that we would share with customers to be absolutely explicit with them. It's not just that there are mistakes and accidents which we try to limit to AZs, but no, go further, that we may intentionally cause outages to AZs if that's what allows us to keep broader service health higher, right? They are not just a blast radius because you, oops, pulled the pin on the grenade; they can actually intentionally step on the off button. And that's different than the way Google operates. They think of each of the AZs, and each of the regions, and the global system as an always-on, all the time environment, and they do not have systems where one gets, sort of, sacrificed for the benefit of the rest, right, or they will intentionally plan to take a system offline.There is no planned downtime in the SLA, where the SLAs from my friends at Amazon and Azure are explicit to, if they choose to, they decide to take it offline, they can. Now, that's—I don't know, I kind of want the contract that has the other thing where you don't get that.Corey: I don't know what the right answer is for a lot of these things. I think multi-cloud is dumb. I think that the idea of having this workload that you're going to seamlessly deploy to two providers in case of an outage, well guess what? The orchestration between those two providers is going to cause you more outages than you would take just sticking on one. And in most cases, unless you are able to have complete duplication of not just functionality but capacity between those two, congratulations, you've now just doubled your number of single points of failure, you made the problem actively worse and more expensive. Good job.Miles: I wrote an article about this, and I think it's important to differentiate between dumb and terrifyingly shockingly expensive, right? So, I have a bunch of customers who I would characterize as rich, as like, shockingly rich, as producing businesses that have 80-plus percent gross margins. And for them, the costs associated with this stuff are utterly rational, and they take on that work, and they are seeing benefits, or they wouldn't be doing it.Corey: Of course.Miles: So, I think their trajectory in technology—you know, this is a quote from a Google engineer—it's just like, “Oh, you want to see what the future looks like? Hang out with rich people.” I went into houses when I was a little kid that had whole-home automation. I couldn't afford them; my mom was cleaning house there, but now my house, I can use my phone to turn on the lights. Like—Corey: You know, unless us-east-1 is having a problem.Miles: Hey, and then no Roomba for you, right? Like utterly offline. So—Corey: Roomba has now failed to room.Miles: Conveniently, my lights are Philips Hue, and that's on Google, so that baby works. But it is definitely a spot where the barrier of entry and the level of complexity required is going down over time. And it is definitely a horrible choice for 99% of the companies that are out there right now. But next year, it'll be 98. And the year after that, it'll probably be 97. [laugh].And if I go inside of Amazon's data centers, there's not one manufacturer of hard drives, there's a bunch. So, that got so easy that now, of course you use more than one; you got to do—that's just like, sort of, a natural thing, right? These technologies, it'll move over time. We just aren't there yet for the vast, vast majority of workloads.Corey: I hope that in the future, this stuff becomes easier, but data transfer fees are going to continue to be a concern—Miles: Just—[makes explosion noise]—Corey: Oh, man—Miles: —like, right in the face.Corey: —especially with the Cambrian explosion of data because the data science folks have successfully convinced the entire industry that there's value in those mode balancer logs in 2012. Okay, great. We're never deleting anything again, but now you've got to replicate all of that stuff because no one has a decent handle on lifecycle management and won't for the foreseeable future. Great, to multiple providers so that you can work on these things? Like, that is incredibly expensive.Miles: Yeah. Cool tech, from this announcement at Next that I think is very applicable, and recognized the level of like, utter technical mastery—and security mastery to our earlier conversation—that something like this requires, the product is called BigQuery Omni, what Omni allows you to do is go into the Google Cloud Console, go to BigQuery, say I want to do analysis on this data that's in S3, or in Azure Blob Storage, Google will spin up an account on your behalf on Amazon and Azure, and run the compute there for you, bring the result back. So, just transfer the answers, not the raw data that you just scanned, and no work on your part, no management, no crapola. So, there's like—that's multi-cloud. If I've got—I can do a join between a bunch of rows that are in real BigQuery over on GCP side and rows that are over there in S3. The cross-eyedness of getting something like that to work is mind blowing.Corey: To give this a little more context, just because it gets difficult to reason about these things, I can either have data that is in a private subnet in AWS that traverses their horribly priced Managed NAT Gateways, and then goes out to the internet and sent there once, for the same cost as I could take that same data and store it in S3 in their standard tier for just shy of six full months. That's a little imbalanced, if we're being direct here. And then when you add in things like intelligent tiering and archive access classes, that becomes something that… there's no contest there. It's, if we're talking about things that are now approaching exabyte scale, that's one of those, “Yeah, do you want us to pay by a credit card?”—get serious. You can't at that scale anyway—“Invoice billing, or do we just, like, drive a dump truck full of gold bricks and drop them off in Seattle?”Miles: Sure. Same trajectory, on the multi-cloud thing. So, like a partner of ours, PacketFabric, you know, if you're a big, big company, you go out and you call Amazon and you buy 100 gigabit interconnect on—I think they call theirs Direct Connect, and then you hook that up to the Google one that's called Dedicated Interconnect. And voila, the price goes from twelve cents a gig down to two cents a gig; everybody's much happier. But Jesus, you pay the upfront for that, you got to set the thing up, it takes days to get deployed, and now you're culpable for the whole pipe if you don't use it up. Like, there are charges that are static over the course of the month.So, PacketFabric just buys one of those and lets you rent a slice of it you need. And I think they've got an incredible product. We're working with them on a whole bunch of different projects. But I also expect—like, there's no reason the cloud providers shouldn't be working hard to vend that kind of solution over time. If a hundred gigabit is where it is now, what does it look like when I get to ten gigabit? When I get to one gigabit? When I get to half gigabit? You know, utility price that for us so that we get to rational pricing.I think there's a bunch of baked-in business and cost logic that is a part of the pricing system, where egress is the source of all of the funding at Amazon for internal networking, right? I don't pay anything for the switches that connect to this machine to that machine, in region. It's not like those things are cheap or free; they have to be there. But the funding for that comes from egress. So, I think you're going to end up seeing a different model where you'll maybe have different approaches to egress pricing, but you'll be paying like an in-system networking fee.And I think folks will be surprised at how big that fee likely is because of the cost of the level of networking infrastructure that the providers deploy, right? I mean, like, I don't know, if you've gone and tried to buy a 40 port, 40 gig switch anytime recently. It's not like they're those little, you know, blue Netgear ones for 90 bucks.Corey: Exactly. It becomes this, [sigh] I don't know, I keep thinking that's not the right answer, but part of it also is like, well, you know, for things that I really need local and don't want to worry about if the internet's melting today, I kind of just want to get, like, some kind of Raspberry Pi shoved under my desk for some reason.Miles: Yeah. I think there is a lot where as more and more businesses bet bigger and bigger slices of the farm on this kind of thing, I think it's Jassy's line that you're, you know, the fat in the margin in your business is my opportunity. Like, there's a whole ecosystem of partners and competitors that are hunting all of those opportunities. I think that pressure can only be good for customers.Corey: Miles, thank you for taking the time to speak with me. If people want to learn more about you, what you're up to, your bad opinions, your ridiculous company, et cetera—Miles: [laugh].Corey: —where can they find you?Miles: Well, it's really easy to spell: SADA.com, S-A-D-A dot com. I'm Miles Ward, it's @milesward on Twitter; you don't have to do too hard of a math. It's miles@sada.com, if you want to send me an email. It's real straightforward. So, eager to reach out, happy to help. We've got a bunch of engineers that like helping people move from Amazon to GCP. So, let us know.Corey: Excellent. And we will, of course, put links to this in the [show notes 00:37:17] because that's how we roll.Miles: Yay.Corey: Thanks so much for being so generous with your time, and I look forward to seeing what comes out next year from these various cloud companies.Miles: Oh, I know some of them already, and they're good. Oh, they're super good.Corey: This is why I don't do predictions because like, the stuff that I know about, like, for example, I was I was aware of the Graviton 3 was coming—Miles: Sure.Corey: —and it turns out that if your—guess what's going to come up and you don't name Graviton 3, it's like, “Are you simple? Did you not see that one coming?” It's like—or if I don't know it's coming and I make that guess—which is not the hardest thing in the world—someone would think I knew and leaked. There's no benefit to doing predictions.Miles: No. It's very tough, very happy to do predictions in private, for customers. [laugh].Corey: Absolutely. Thanks again for your time. I appreciate it.Miles: Cheers.Corey: Myles Ward, CTO at SADA. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice and be very angry in your opinion when you write that obnoxious comment, but then it's going to get lost because it's using MySQL instead of Postgres.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

Our guest today is the Co-Founder & CTO of Armis Security, Nadir Izrael. Nadir guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect unmanaged and IoT devices. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, Nadir worked at Google as a senior software manager. Before Google, Nadir spent six years […] The post Ep. 189 – Armis Security Co-Founder & CTO, Nadir Izrael appeared first on COO Alliance.

Our guest today is the Co-Founder & CTO of Armis Security, Nadir Izrael. Nadir guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect unmanaged and IoT devices. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, Nadir worked at Google as a senior software manager. Before Google, Nadir spent six years […] The post Ep. 189 – Armis Security Co-Founder & CTO, Nadir Izrael appeared first on COO Alliance.

CCW Digital's Matt Wujciak and Google's Rob Lawson discuss how Google has turned Search, Maps and more into a conversational experience with Business Messages. Before Google, Rob started (and sometimes sold) companies focussed on mobile advertising, games, communities and messaging. In this fireside chat, you'll learn: -Different mobile commerce trends -Emerging consumer behaviors in messaging -How to meet customers where they are (and so much more). Rob also touches on how brands like Walmart, Vodafone, Dish, Levi's and JetBlue are successfully using business messaging for customer care, sales/acquisition, and marketing.

On the podcast this week, our guests Brian Schwarz and Sean Derrington discuss the ins and outs of the new storage launches with your hosts Stephanie Wong and Jenny Brown. Brian gives light introductions to the five facets of Google’s data storage portfolio, like the primary storage solutions for files, storage of backups of data, and data transfer software and hardware. Lately, the Google team has been enhancing existing data solutions and building new ones. Cloud Storage’s multi-region and custom dual-region options easily let customers keep data safe and accessible. Our guests explain what happens behind the scenes to make these features so effective. Brian and Sean describe the user experience, including how clients can see when data is being replicated and where. New capabilities like Turbo Replication allow more modernization for clients moving to the cloud as well. Sean talks about the new Filestore Enterprise, which allows companies to move critical apps to the cloud quickly and securely, and we learn why accurate, fast file and data replication is so important for these large customers. If there is corruption or accidental deletion of a file, Brian and Sean tell us about the fail-safes that are in place and the process for recovery. Filestore Enterprise, Filestore Basic, and GKE working together offer a more customized approach for large clients, allowing them to allocate their critical projects to Enterprise and other less important applications to Basic. Stateful applications in containers are becoming more popular as well, and our guests tell us how Backup for GKE is the easiest way to protect GKE workloads. Brian Schwarz Brian has had 20 years in product management in data center infrastructure. Before Google, he spent time at Veritas, Cisco, and most recently Pure Storage. Sean Derrington Sean has spent 20 years in storage product management. Before Google, he spent time at Veritas, Exablox, and StorageCraft. Cool things of the week Run code samples directly in the Google Cloud documentation blog Why representation matters: 6 tips on how to build DEI into your business blog Google Cloud announces new Cloud Digital Leader training and certification blog Google Cloud Next site Interview GKE site Google Cloud Storage site Filestore site Filestore Enterprise docs New storage features help ensure data is never lost blog Announcing Filestore Enterprise, for your most demanding apps blog Announcing Backup for GKE: the easiest way to protect GKE workloads blog Webinar: What’s New with Storage at Google Cloud site What’s something cool you’re working on? Jenny is working on Google Cloud Reader and further audio formats for all your favorite cloud content.

Before Google was the name of one of the world's biggest tech companies, "googol" was an obscure math term that meant "ten to the one hundredth power". Five decades before the founding of Google, the word "googol" emerged spontaneously out of a conversation between an American mathematician and his nephew. Click here to listen to this month's FREE bonus episode on Patreon.

“When you figure out your ‘why' everything else is smooth around you.” That's what Azra Khalfan-Kermali says is the secret to success when taking over a family business.  Her father, a commercial artist in Tanzania, was a successful sign maker. When he and his wife moved to Queens, NY, he opened a sign and plaque-making family business, naming it after his daughter, Plaques by Azra (https://www.azra.com/).  “I grew up watching [my father and mother] balancing company, community, and business.” she says. “They were passionate...They socialized a lot...They were part of the community. It was nice having that childhood.”  The business targets the muslim community. “This is one of the only Islamic award compan[ies] in the world,” Khalfan-Kermali says. Though she didn't grow up expecting to take over the family business, after a divorce from her first husband,  she decided to get her college degree, apply for the Goldman Sachs 10000 Small Business program and the Tori Burch foundation. She negotiated a price for the business from her parents (“so it was fair to my siblings”) and they accepted.  As a woman who observes the Islamic veil Khalfan-Kermali says her biggest challenge was deciding to show herself outside the home because it might lose clients. “I didn't want my parents to suffer a loss because I was going out to meetings,” she says. “Before Google, you can't find a picture of me. I would talk to clients and no one knew who you were or what you looked like. It was like that for a long time.”  FREE GIFT! Don't start your reinvention without downloading CoveyClub's starter guide called “31 Badass Tips for Launching Your Reinveintion Without Fear!”

Before Google or Facebook; prior to the days of snapping, tweeting, and texting....Yahoo was the original King of the Internet. But in the early days, Jerry Yang and David Filo weren't sure if it was even a valid business. In this episode, Mike Maples, Jr of Floodgate interviews Jerry Yang about what it was like to learn that what started out as a hobby was destined for business greatness.

Author of "Hold Successful Meetings" Show notes: https://www.markgraban.com/mistake85 My guest for Episode #85 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Caterina Kostoula. She is an executive coach and founder of The Leaderpath. Prior to The Leaderpath, Caterina was a Global Business Leader at Google where she managed some of the company's largest C-level partnerships. She was also an internal coach, awarded a 5-star-rating distinction from her coachees. Before Google, Caterina worked in advertising. Caterina has coached leaders from Google, Amazon, Vodafone, WPP, Ferrero, ArcelorMittal, Workable, and several entrepreneurs. She collaborates with INSEAD, coaching Executive MBAs and alumni. She is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. She is the author of the book, released today, Hold Successful Meetings, published by Penguin Business. Caterina has lived in more than seven countries across America, Europe, and Asia. She now lives in London. She writes about personal development on Forbes, Fast Company, and Thrive Global. In 2017, she was one of Medium's top writers on self-improvement, life lessons, and relationships. She holds an INSEAD MBA and an Executive Coaching Accreditation and MSc from Ashridge Business School. She has two young children and enjoys spending time with family and friends. Topics and questions: What is your favorite mistake? Mistake: kept generating and making all of the decisions as a solopreneur Lesson: Cannot make impact without a team – not just outsourcing Mentor asked: What kind of leader do you want to be? In theory, leaders want ideas… but there's subtle sabotage Team members though say they're scared Psychological safety – work on establishing this first Why write the book? Out of pain and frustration? What does “successful” mean in context of meetings? 4 reasons to have a meeting — 4Ds Common mistakes related to meetings? Mistakes with Virtual meetings? More tiring — make them shorter, take breaks every 45 min Interaction is harder – more interruption Meetings need more structure as a countermeasure Using breakouts Quiz – how successful are your meetings? TheLeaderPath.com/meetings --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support

Chris is the global industry lead at Google for Gambling. Before Google, Chris spent 7 years at Betfair working in various strategy, insight and marketing roles.

Brian Dorsey joins Stephanie Wong this week for an in-depth discussion on Workflows. Guests Kris Braun and Guillaume Laforge introduce us to Google Cloud Workflows, explaining that this fully managed serverless product helps connect services in the cloud. By facilitating the creation of an end-to-end schema, Workflows lets developers specify what microservices or other software respond when certain events occur in a detailed, visual format. Kris and Guillaume list the benefits of using Workflows and detail the many uses for this powerful tool. The ability to add detailed descriptors, for example, helps companies avoid errors in calling up other pieces of software. New employees have an easier time getting acquainted when the steps are clearly defined as well. Our guests use real-world examples to illustrate the three main uses for Workflows: event-driven, batch, and infrastructure automation. Workflows are flexible and customizable. Later, we hear about Cloud Composer and its relation to Workflows, and our guests help us understand which product is right for each client type. The Workflows team continues to expand offerings. More connectors are being added to allow developers to call other GCP services. Working with lists will soon be easier, allowing Workflows to run steps in parallel. And Kris details other exciting updates coming soon, including Eventarc. Kris Braun Kris Braun is the Product Manager for three Google Cloud products that connect services to build applications: Workflows, Tasks, and Scheduler. Before Google, Kris’ adventures include founding and growing startups, leading a team of network security researchers investigating threats like Stuxnet, and writing the original BlackBerry simulator for app development. He’s a passionate advocate for opening job opportunities to skilled refugees displaced by war and disaster. Guillaume Laforge Guillaume Laforge is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, focusing on serverless technologies. More recently, he dived head first in Workflows, and started presenting the product at online events, wrote articles, tips and tricks, and videos on the topic. Cool things of the week How sweet it is: Using Cloud AI to whip up new treats with Mars Maltesers blog Turbo boost your Compute Engine workloads with new 100 Gbps networking blog Benchmarking higher bandwidth VM instances docs Interview Workflows site Spanner site Cloud SQL site Cloud Composer site Pub/Sub site Cloud Run site Eventarc site Eventarc Documentation docs Workflows Insiders site Quickstarts site How-To Guides site Syntax Reference site Guillaume’s Workflow Tips and Tricks blog A first look at serverless orchestration with Workflows blog Orchestrating the Pic-a-Daily serverless app with Workflows blog Better service orchestration with Workflows blog Get to know Workflows, Google Cloud’s serverless orchestration engine blog 3 common serverless patterns to build with Workflows blog Introduction to serverless orchestration with Workflows codelab Pic-a-Daily Serverless Workshop codelab Pic-a-daily: Lab 6—Orchestration with Workflows codelab What’s something cool you’re working on? Brian is working on use cases around VMs. Stephanie has been writing about database migration.

Guest Cara Shortsleeve is the CEO at The Leadership Consortium (TLC), a leadership development platform designed to accelerate high potential and diverse leaders. Shortsleeve joined TLC in 2018 to launch and scale the business which has since forged relationships with Google, IBM, HubSpot, P&G, WPP and dozens more. Under Shortleeve’s leadership, TLC has enabled more than 2,000 executives to lead stronger teams and bring broader strategic mindsets to their business. Prior to joining TLC, Shortsleeve spent more than a decade in various leadership roles at Google and YouTube. Most recently, she served as a Global Director for GTM and commercialization at YouTube, focusing on product and commercial strategy. She was initially hired in 2007 to help launch and scale Google’s east coast, mid-market sales presence, after which she led the North American mid market sales teams for both Financial Services and Healthcare. Before Google, Shortsleeve managed the US running apparel business at New Balance, served as a Sales Director for Hind/Saucony, and spent three years with Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division.

David is an accomplished top enterprise practicing salesperson, currently in sales and business development and global strategic accounts at Adobe in New York. Despite his fast-paced and high pressure position he has managed to pen an excellent book “Game of Sales.” Prior to Adobe, at AdRoll, Amazon and Google, David helped major brands leverage advertising solutions spanning search, display, video, mobile, and emerging technologies.  Before Google, David was a Business Development Executive at IBM, where he built six strategic partnerships to deliver new enterprise offerings. Also at IBM, David was part of a small strategy consulting practice where he developed and delivered partnerships, go-to-market strategy, product strategy, competitive analysis, channel enablement, business model strategy, global solution design, consulting practice development, and growth strategy. In this episode we talk about the “Game of Sales” and David offers a lot of advice to salespeople on how to embrace and advance their careers in what is a challenging profession.  Key Points of This Discussion The history behind David’s book “Game of Sales” Tough conversations with customers and the “challenger sale” David’s approach to prioritisation and effective time management  How to build an “automatic pipeline”  The importance of understanding and mitigating risks in a sale The key foundations for a successful career in sales David’s advice on sales calls for new business How to avoid “Horrible Meetings” How to avoid a customer going “dark” after a successful meeting The dark side of sales - how to cope with uncertainty and change Check out David’s book “Game of Sales” and you can find David here on LinkedIn

On Episode 018, Garland interviews Ginny Clarke.Highlights of Episode 019:Ginny intro - 0:44Career Mapping - 9:50DEI is a Leadership Problem - 19:00Fifth Dimensional Leadership - 29:27Ginny’s Best Advice - 43:50The Ginny Clarke Experience - 49:35Inclusion and Equity Drive my Work - 51:45Life Coming Full Circle - 52:00Afterthoughts - 54:11Ginny Clarke was Director, Executive Recruiting at Google from August 2016 until November 2020. In this role, she led the Diversity, Internal Mobility and the Non-tech Recruiting teams. Her team of North American recruiters found and hired senior leaders (Directors +) for finance, sales, marketing and other G&A functions across Google. She recently left to pursue her own business of consulting, speaking, podcasting and writing. Her podcast, Fifth Dimensional Leadership is for leaders, thinkers and future-makers dedicated to creating the conscious workplace of tomorrow.Before Google, Ginny was a Partner at Spencer Stuart, the global executive search firm, based in Chicago. For 12 years, she worked in the firm’s Financial Services and Financial Officer Practices, and co-founded and led Spencer Stuart’s Global Diversity Practice. She left Spencer Stuart to write a book titled Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work, which was published in 2011. The book provides a framework that empowers individuals to plot and assess their professional competencies, and strategically navigate their careers.After the book was published, Ginny ran her own executive search and talent management firm for 3 years before becoming a Senior Partner for Executive Search in the U.S. at Knightsbridge, a Canadian human capital solutions firm. Ginny started her career in banking at First National Bank of Chicago (now Chase). After a short stint, she spent a number of years in the real estate investment management business with Jones Lang LaSalle (“JLL”) and Prudential Real Estate Investors. Her responsibilities included asset management, portfolio management, capital raising and client servicing. She earned her BA in French and Linguistics from the University of California at Davis, and her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School. Ginny is the single mother of an adult son, Julian, who works in the entertainment industry.Connect with Ginny:LinkedInWebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterBook: https://amzn.to/3urzYsX// Connect with and learn more about your host, Garland Fuller:Web: garlandfuller.comInstagram: @FullCircleWithGarlandLinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/garlandfullerSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/garland)

It used to be that only big companies with big budgets and professional videographers could use video for advertising. Now nearly anyone with a smartphone can make great videos, and nearly everyone has access to a high-speed internet connection and a device where they can watch videos any time. Furthermore, video is usually much more engaging than long pages of text. Because of this democratization of video, we've seen a huge tectonic shift towards video marketing. There is no other form of communication that trumps in person, face-to-face communication, but that kind of communication isn't always possible. Video is the next best option. It allows us to closely replicate face-to-face communication in many ways. We can see facial expressions and body language and bring those elements into the conversation in a scalable way. According to HubSpot, 78% of people watch online videos every week, and 55% view online videos every day. Some would even say that video is better than face-to-face communication because videos can be recorded once, uploaded to the Internet, and then be available nearly any time anywhere. This can give video communication much more reach than face-to-face communication, which is limited by our location and our time. Because of this reach and engagement of video, it is a force multiplier.  In this episode, I interviewed Benton Crane, who is the CEO of Harmon Brothers, the ad agency behind the most viral ads in internet history. In 2011, he was hired by Deloitte where he served as a consultant with various clients across the national intelligence community. He was the co-founder of VidAngel. In 2013, Benton joined the newly formed Harmon Brothers for a campaign to promote Poo-Pourri, an amazing ad that transformed the way products are marketed. Harmon Brothers went on to produce the most viral ads in internet history including Squatty Potty, FiberFix, Orabrush, Purple, and Poo-Pourri.  Success with Poo-Pourri The founder of Poo-Pourri saw what Jeff Harmon, a friend of Benton's and the future co-founder of Harmon Brothers, had done with Orabrush and reached out to him. He didn't take her seriously at the time, and she ended up sending samples to Jeff, and he really liked the samples. He called Benton, telling him that he was thinking about leaving Orabrush to do the Poo-Pourri campaign. Benton wanted to be a part of it because he had seen what they were doing at Orabrush and knew they were pioneering the future of advertising. He told Jeff to let him join up and he'd bring the data analytics side of the venture.  Benton left his stable job and moved his family across the country to work on this ad campaign. When the ad was ready, the first people he showed it to were his in-laws. They were appalled. They didn't laugh, and they didn't crack a smile. So Benton turned it off two minutes into the video, knowing that they weren't going to find it funny if they hadn't already. Luckily, the public reception was the exact opposite of how his in-laws had reacted. They ate it up and it took off like wildfire. Poo-Pourri's videos have now been viewed more than 350 million times collectively. Use Video to Tell a Story in a Unique and Approachable Way Squatty Potty was already a successful business when Harmon Brothers started doing their ad campaign; they were earning around $4 million per year. However, a large portion of their customers were women around 55 or older who had often embarrassing medical conditions. They were ashamed to talk about the Squatty Potty as a solution to their problems, and they would hide it away in the master bathroom. So Benton and his coworkers were faced with the question of how to make this taboo thing into something safe, something that could be talked about and laughed about.  They realized that in order to talk about this product they couldn't use anything real for the ad otherwise it would be seen as disgusting. So they came up with ice cream and the mythical unicorn and set it in a medieval land with a prince to further remove it from reality. They designed the unicorn to be cute and cuddly to make it approachable. In doing all these things, they took the taboo and grossness out of the subject and turned it into something funny.  After the ad went viral, their customers no longer had to hide the Squatty Potty in the master bathroom; they could put it in their guest bathroom and it would turn into a funny topic of conversation. Harmon Brothers used video to tell the story in a unique and funny way that made it safe and approachable. It massively expanded the audience of customers to whom Squatty Potty could sell these stools, and it fundamentally changed the business and the owners' lives while making customers' lives better. Pioneer the Video Ad Skip Button with YouTube More than 1.9 billion people, one-third of the internet, use YouTube (YouTube). Before Google bought YouTube, no one saw it as an advertising platform. It was just a place where people could share things like funny cat videos. Google bought it and turned it into a place for advertising. Now we can use this platform where people are finding joy to reach more customers through the ads before videos.  Around the same time Google bought YouTube, Benton's business partner, Jeff Harmon, created an ad that was about two and a half minutes long, but ads back then were either thirty-second TV ads or thirty-minute infomercials. Everyone was telling him this ad was too long, but he had an idea. He went to YouTube and said, "I want to try something out. Can you give me a skip button for this ad, so that people who want to watch the ad can and those that don't want to don't have to?" YouTube agreed to test this out, and they built in a skip button. This idea completely revolutionized the way we do ads. Don't Rely on Virality The Harmon Brothers are known as the viral video guys, but really only a handful of their videos have gone viral. If you look at all the different variations of the Squatty Potty video, it has been viewed about 300 million times. However, it probably would have reached only ten to fifteen million views if they had just put it out there and relied on the virality of it. The Harmon Brothers rely on a formula that says if their clients spend a dollar to drive advertising to this video, they should get back two dollars in revenue. It becomes a machine: money in, revenue out, at the same time generating awareness for the company. They can use that machine for weeks, months, or years to drive business results and awareness. This advertising model is how the Purple mattress video has been viewed over 500 million times, while never going viral. If we can get our ROAS (return on ad spend) to be double or triple what our advertising cost is, then we really don't have an advertising budget. We can have an almost unlimited advertising budget because we know that for each dollar we spend we get our money back and make a profit. Building an Effective Video Script An effective script will have all the elements of a great sale: a hook, problem, solution, and call to action. It will build credibility, overcome concerns, and finish with another call to action. The hook is very important; 33% of viewers will stop watching a video after 30 seconds, 45% by one minute, and 60% by two minutes (Ad Age).  The Harmon Brothers teach how to do research and behind the scenes work to make sure the right pieces end up in the script. The way to make sure the script is really effective is through research. We can ask ourselves, “What part of my message is it that really resonates with my audience?” Once we know the answer we must make sure the script focuses on the parts that resonate.  “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” -Peter Drucker, management consultant, educator, and author Focus Our Time on Things We Love One day when Benton was in high school, he was venting to his dad about how he wasn't finding school fulfilling. He felt like he was wasting his time and that high school was just daycare for teenagers. He wanted to be doing something more, something that he cared about. Benton expected his dad to say, "Stick it out. School is important," but his dad didn't. He said, "If you've got a problem with it, do something about it. If you don't like school, leave. Go do something better."  His dad's answer was like a slap across his face that woke him up. He started questioning what he wanted to be doing with his life, and the answer he came to was cars; working on cars was the thing in his life that he was most passionate about. He was always buying old cars, fixing them up, and selling them. He read every issue of Motor Trend magazine from cover to cover because he loved cars.  So Benton dropped out of high school and enrolled in the automotive repair courses at a local college. He absolutely loved it there. A professor saw his passion and urged him to compete. Benton did, winning at the school level, then the state level, and eventually they sent him to Kansas City where he took second place at the national level. From an outside viewpoint dropping out of high school seemed like throwing away a great opportunity and promising future and pursuing a dead-end career in repairing cars. In reality, though, instead of just going through the motions, he was pursuing his passion that was lighting a fire in him and causing him to excel. Key Takeaways Here are some of my key takeaways from this episode. Video marketing is a massive tectonic shift, and a huge opportunity for our businesses if we leverage it effectively. We may consider using video to tell the ad's story in a unique and funny way that makes the product or service safe, fun, and approachable. Try to create a viral ad, but don't rely just on virality. Instead, try to create an advertising money machine that earns you a profit on each dollar you spend, and gives you an almost unlimited advertising budget.   Ask “What part of my message is it that really resonates with my audience?” Make sure the script focuses on the parts that resonate. Focus your time on the things you love, and your chance of excelling will increase.  Want to be a Better Digital Monetizer? Did you like today's episode? Then please follow these channels to receive free digital monetization content: Get a free Monetization Assessment of your business Subscribe to the Monetization eMagazine. Follow the Monetization Nation Blog. Join our private Monetization Nation Facebook Group. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation YouTube channel. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher.  Connect with Nathan on Linkedin.  Follow Monetization Nation on Instagram.  Follow Monetization Nation on Twitter. Challenge If we desire monetization we have never before achieved, we must leverage strategies we have never before implemented. I challenge each of us to pick one thing that resonated with us from today's episode and schedule a time this week to implement it to help achieve our monetization goals. Share Your Story Do you have any tips and tricks about successful video marketing?  Please join our private Monetization Nation Facebook group and share your insights with other digital monetizers. Read more at: https://www.monetizationnation.com/7-video-marketing-secrets-from-one-of-the-creators-of-an-ad-with-300-million-views/  

MLOps community meetup #49! Last Wednesday we talked to Lak Lakshmanan, Data Analytics and AI Solutions, Google Cloud. // Abstract: Design patterns are formalized best practices to solve common problems when designing a software system. As machine learning moves from being a research discipline to a software one, it is useful to catalogue tried-and-proven methods to help engineers tackle frequently occurring problems that crop up during the ML process. In this talk, I will cover five patterns (Workflow Pipelines, Transform, Multimodal Input, Feature Store, Cascade) that are useful in the context of adding flexibility, resilience and reproducibility to ML in production. For data scientists and ML engineers, these patterns provide a way to apply hard-won knowledge from hundreds of ML experts to your own projects. Anyone designing infrastructure for machine learning will have to be able to provide easy ways for the data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to implement these, and other, design patterns. // Bio: Lak is the Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud. His team builds software solutions for business problems using Google Cloud's data analytics and machine learning products. He founded Google's Advanced Solutions Lab ML Immersion program and is the author of three O'Reilly books and several Coursera courses. Before Google, Lak was a Director of Data Science at Climate Corporation and a Research Scientist at NOAA. // Final thoughts Please feel free to drop some questions you may have beforehand into our slack channel (https://go.mlops.community/slack) Watch some old meetups on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG6qpjVnBTTT8wLGBygANOQ ----------- Connect With Us ✌️------------- Join our Slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Lak on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valliappalakshmanan/ Timestamps: [00:00] TWIML Con Debate announcement to be hosted by Demetrios on Friday [00:19] Should data scientists know about Kubernetes? Is it just one machine learning tool to rule them all? Or is it going to be the "best-in-class" tool? [00:35] Strong opinion of Lak about "Should data scientists know about Kubernetes?" [05:50] Lak's background into tech [08:07] Which ones you wrote in the book? Is the airport scenario yours? [09:25] Did you write ML Maturity Level from Google? [12:34] How do you know when to bring on perplexity for the sake of making things easier? [16:06] What are some of the best practices that you've seen being used in tooling? [20:09] How did you come up with writing the book? [20:59] How did we decide that these are the patterns that we need to put in the book? [24:14] Why did I get the "audacity" to think that this is something that is worth doing? [31:29] What would be in your mind some of the hierarchy of design patterns? [38:05] Are there patterns out there that are yet to be discovered? How do you balance the exploitable vs the explorable ml patterns? [42:08] ModelOps vs MLOps [43:08] Do you feel that a DevOps engineer is better suited to make the transition into becoming a Machine Learning engineer? [46:07] Fundamental Machine Design Patterns vs Software Development Design Patterns [49:23] When you're working with the companies at Google, did you give them a toolchain and a better infrastructure or was there more to it? Did they have to rethink their corporate culture because DevOps is often mistaken as just a pure toolchain?

Coffee Sessions #24 with Sara Robinson of Google, Machine Learning Design Patterns co-hosted by Vishnu Rachakonda. //Bio Sara is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, focusing on machine learning. She inspires developers and data scientists to integrate ML into their applications through demos, online content, and events. Before Google, she was a Developer Advocate on the Firebase team. Sara has a Bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University. When she’s not writing code, she can be found on a spin bike or eating frosting. --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aponteanalytics/ Connect with Vishnu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vrachakonda/ Connect with Sara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-robinson-40377924/ Timestamps: [00:00] Introduction to Sara Robinson [01:38] Sara's Background into tech [04:54] What were some things that jumped out at you right away with Machine Learning that is different? [07:44] Sara's Transition to the Machine Learning realm. [08:36] What is the role of a Developer Advocate? [11:41] Compared to traditional software developer advocacy, what stands out to you as being different, unique, perhaps more fun about working in the Machine Learning realm as a Developer Advocate? [13:40] "No one person has it right." [15:27] Given how new this space is, how did you go about writing a book? What leads you to write this book (Machine Learning Design Patterns)? [19:00] Process of deciding to write the book [21:46] What is it that made the focus of these design patterns? [25:07] Who's the reader that you think who's gonna have this book on their shelf as a reference? [26:42] How would you advise readers to go about reconciling this domain-based needs and the design patterns that you may suggest or identify? [31:20] Can you tell us about a time that some of the design patterns as you're learning with your co-authors has been useful to you? [36:50] Workflow Pipeline breakdown in the book [42:23] How do you think about that level of maturity in terms of thinking about the design patterns? [46:06] How do I communicate in design pattern? What if there is resistance to formalization or implementational structure because it might prevent creativity or reiteration? [49:32] Pre-bill and custom components of Pipeline Frameworks [51:28] How do we know to do the next step or stay in Feature Store patterns? [56:07] Are we going to see the convergence of tools and frameworks soon? Resources referenced in this episode: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/machine-learning-design/9781098115777/ https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Design-Patterns-Preparation/dp/1098115783 https://books.google.com.ph/books/about/Machine_Learning_Design_Patterns.html?id=djwDEAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y https://amzn.to/38tM22C https://sararobinson.dev/2020/11/17/writing-a-technical-book.html

Intro How's it working out for Randy, de-Googling himself? The hardest part • Realizing how much of my data they hold ○ And then planning to "take out" my data and place it somewhere as reliable. ○ Not likely as reliable, being that Google has 100's of thousands of dollars. • I feel like Google has weaponized Linux to fuel their surveillance machine. De-Googling is much harder than I had realized • There have been articles for a long time, regarding getting rid of Google from your life, long before I found this something I wanted to achieve. ○ I want to make clear that I think Google no longer a good company, who allegedly spies on their employees, discouraging worker organization - before firing them. I won't get into politics on unions or any of that stuff because I don't feel I'm the most educated person on that subject manner. The part about Google that bothers me is lack of privacy, knowing everything about a person by crawling for our data in order to survive. ○ There is a good write-up on How-To-Geek's site from Harry Guinness that touches on how removing Google from your life is nearly impossible. ○ Ads served to you are often from Google and it's hard to avoid - What I did about this is: § Pi-Hole. I think this is a good start for anyone that wants to shoo away Google a little bit, as a start. • Google also loves some good censoring on things they don't like, such as crushing negative stories about themselves, penalizing anti-Google articles. But, I thought that they would get me the information about things I really want to know - which should be everything, because we use google to search for everything, right? Not me anymore. I've removed all traces of Chrome browser. ○ There are countless demonstrations of Google censorship, and it doesn't matter which political party you're are part of - If Google doesn't like it, it may just magically, not exist. Top 10 Ways Google Does Evil - Listverse Free styling some ideas Off the top of my head, I'll share a couple things that I planning on doing in order to gradually taper off "the Google". Trying to not buy their products (more difficult than it sounds, since Alphabet buys out so many companies). Google is just one of the 13 subsidiaries of Alphabet Inc!. Before Google was under Alphabet, you may recall all of the mergers and acquisitions that happened. They own a lot, and these acquisitions will fuel their data collection domination.

In this episode, we compare submitting your work to setting up a profile on Tinder. How far can we take this metaphor? Too far. Much, much too far. As a Tinder virgin (metaphorically speaking), Alex is grilling the pros (not a metaphor, although they do get paid for it) on how to submit your work to agents and publishers.  How do you find them? How do you talk to them? When are you being too pushy? Do you split the bill? The questions are endless. Don't fret, the Word Docs are here with the ultimate dating guide for writers seeking long-term love in the industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we compare submitting your work to setting up a profile on Tinder. How far can we take this metaphor? Too far. Much, much too far. As a Tinder virgin (metaphorically speaking), Alex is grilling the pros (not a metaphor, although they do get paid for it) on how to submit your work to agents and publishers.  How do you find them? How do you talk to them? When are you being too pushy? Do you split the bill? The questions are endless. Don't fret, the Word Docs are here with the ultimate dating guide for writers seeking long-term love in the industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we compare submitting your work to setting up a profile on Tinder. How far can we take this metaphor? Too far. Much, much too far. As a Tinder virgin (metaphorically speaking), Alex is grilling the pros (not a metaphor, although they do get paid for it) on how to submit your work to agents and publishers.  How do you find them? How do you talk to them? When are you being too pushy? Do you split the bill? The questions are endless. Don't fret, the Word Docs are here with the ultimate dating guide for writers seeking long-term love in the industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What a fantastic conversation I had with Lucas Hirata! We covered a lot in this episode. We talked about the future of design, smart displays, voice UI, and some challenges when designing for hardware and physical devices. Lucas is one of the people behind the new Chromecast with Google TV. Before Google, he worked at Huge with many known brands like Apple, Coke, CNN, Hulu, Fox, FX, Lexus, Nintendo, Target, Toyota. If You Wanna Fly, YouTube Channel (In Portuguese) Cells and Pixels, every Tuesday 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET www.instagram.com/cells.and.pixels

Rubi Sanchez is a San Francisco native, Lowell High School alumna, UC Berkeley graduate, and currently a Product Manager at Google. She is passionate about AI powered technologies that create a lasting meaningful impact. Before Google, she co-founded a computer vision company that was recognized by President Obama at the first ever White House Demo Day.#RealCityAmbassadors #RCA #SanFrancisco #Frisco #LowellHighSchool #LatinasinTech 

Shishir Mehrotra is the Founder & CEO @ Coda, the startup that brings all of your words and data into a flexible all-in-one doc. To date, Shishir has raised over $140M from some great names including Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, NEA and Homebrew to name a few. Prior to founding Coda, Shishir spent an incredible 6 years at Google in a couple of different roles; first as Director of Product for Youtube Monetisation and then moving to Youtube VP of Engineering, Product and UX. Before Google, Shishir was with Microsoft for 6 years as a Director of Program Management. Shishir also serves on the board of Spotify. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Shishir made his way into the world of tech, came to be VP of Engineering, Product and UX @ Youtube and how it led to founding Coda? 2.) What is the No 1 quality of a good decision? How does Shishir think through reversible vs irreversible decisions? What are the 4 phases of decision-making? When should decisions be based on speed vs not? How can teams adjust questions to come to more productive outcomes? 3.) How does Shishir encourage debate and dissent within team discussions? How can leaders build deep trust with their teams? How can leaders create true democracy for idea sharing and meritocracy? Should ideas always be acted on immediately? What are the pros and cons? 4.) How does Shishir think about and evaluate his own operating cadence? How has this changed over time? How does Shishir approach time allocation? What have been his core learnings? How does Shishir divide his time between proactive and reactive tasks? 5.) How does Shishir approach OKR setting? What can leaders do to create aspirational and inspirational goals? How should goals be correctly communicated across orgs? How many OKRs should one team/person have? How should attribution across OKRs be given? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Shishir’s Fave Book: Switch: How to change things when change is hard  As always you can follow Harry and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.

“The thing about becoming a Tech Influencer is, content is Queen and consistency, quality and value matter. That’s the trifecta of creating content that sticks." In this episode, I had a fun conversation with Stephanie Wong, a Developer Advocate from Google Cloud. Stephanie is well known for her online developer contents ranging from YouTube videos, podcast and blog posts. She also hosts her own YouTube channel called “Steph You Should Know” where she talks about career, tech and productivity tips. Stephanie shared her story on how she started in technology even without technology education background and what led her to her current role. She also shared great tips on public speaking, storytelling, building a personal brand, and CV writing. She also gave her view on how to empower women to thrive in technology and dealing with imposter syndrome. Listen out for: Stephanie’s career journey and how she started in tech - [00:03:31] What DevRel is - [00:08:29] How to be a good Tech Influencer - [00:16:04] Tips on public speaking - [00:21:04] Importance of storytelling - [00:25:23] Tips on career advice and personal branding - [00:29:43] Women in technology and imposter syndrome - [00:33:28] Interesting DevRel experience - [00:40:29] Stephanie’s 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:42:18] _____ Stephanie Wong’s Bio Stephanie Wong is a speaker, writer, and architect with a mission to blend storytelling and technology to create remarkable online developer content. She is the creator of the Google Cloud Youtube series Networking End-to-End, Kubeflow 101, and Eyes on Enterprise, and the host of Google’s Next onAir broadcast. Before Google she helped businesses implement cloud technologies at Oracle. Born and raised in San Francisco, Stephanie’s active in her community, supporting women in tech and mentoring students. She hosts her own Youtube Channel called “Steph You Should Know” where you’ll find career, tech, and productivity tips and advice. She’s a former pageant queen, Hip Hop dance gold medalist, and has an unhealthy obsession with dogs. Follow Stephanie: Twitter – https://twitter.com/swongful LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/swongful/ Medium – https://medium.com/@swongful Website – https://www.stephrwong.com/ Our Sponsors Are you a startup in software development which is less than 5 years old? If yes, our sponsor at JetBrains has a 50% startup discount offer which allows Startups to purchase multiple products and subscriptions for up to 10 unique licenses over a period of months. To find out more, go to https://www.jetbrains.com/store/startups. Like this episode? Subscribe on your favorite podcast app and submit your feedback. Follow @techleadjournal on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Pledge your support by becoming a patron. For more info about the episode (including quotes and transcript), visit techleadjournal.dev/episodes/6.

Rutvik Doshi is the General Partner at Inventus Capital India, early stage Venture Capital firm that invests in Pre Series A and Series A. Rutvik has participated in India's fast emerging internet ecosystem since 2007, first with Google where he launched several products including Voice Search, Google Mobile App, SMS Channels and managed Google News globally, and most recently as the CEO of ecommerce startup Taggle in Bangalore. Before Google he spent 6 years in the US building internet management software for CA Technologies. Rutvik holds a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and an MBA from INSEAD, France. Follow Rutvik (@rutvik), host Akash Bhat (@bhatvakash) and our podcast (@thedesi_vc) on Twitter.. . .The Desi Startups of the Week:1. Project PIF: Project Pay-It-Forward is a cloud-based mentorship platform for graduate admissions2. Podium: Podium is a platform that brings people closer to have virtual conversations around social issues.. . .In this episode we will cover:. . . (Part 1) . . .1. Impact of COVID on fund dynamics and larger macro economic trends (5:24)2. How did LP's react to the pandemic (7:44)3: Investment strategy during Covid and plans for the future (13:11)4. How did Inventus India Capital build rapport with founders during the pandemic, in the absence of F2F meetings? (18:38)5. Rutvik's background and sequence of events leading up to Inventus (19:58)6. Evolution of VC in India (28:06)7. Investment thesis at Inventus (32:21)8. Importance of forging strong relationships with other VC firms in India (37:17). . . (Part 2) . . .9. Raising domestic capital –– Has India reached a point of comfort to invest in VC as an asset class? (42:51)10. Why is it better to have Indian investors than global? (44:44)11. What should emerging fund managers be prepared for when they speak to potential LP candidates? (49:02)12. How many calls do VC's have with potential LPs (53:53)13. How do the Partners split fundraising responsibilities (55:53)14. When will see a change in venture investing to bring more profitability? (1:00:09)15. Lobbying in India (1:02:41)16. Raising money from foreign investors or Indian? (1:05:42)17. Rapid fire (1:08:05)

Sam joined Lyft in 2018 as the Director of Sustainability, where he oversees Lyft’s sustainability and climate impact efforts. Lyft was one of the first companies to join former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “We Are Still In” movement to pledge its commitment to the Paris Climate Accord. Most recently in June 2020, Lyft made an industry-leading commitment to reach 100% electric vehicles on the Lyft platform by 2030. Prior to Lyft, Sam spent 10 years at Google as Senior Lead for Energy & Infrastructure, where he co-led Google's achievement of 100% renewable energy in 2017, making Google the largest non-utility purchaser of renewable energy on the planet to-date with over 3 GW of wind & solar energy under contract. Before Google, Sam earned a BA in Physics from Williams College and an MS in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley, where his research focused on wind energy and plug-in vehicles, respectively. https://www.lyft.com/ https://nexuspmg.com/

Chrisoula Kapelonis is a Design Strategist at Google Nest, working on crafting the future of the home. Her work lies in the intersection of cross-disciplinary design, innovation strategy and the built environment, and is in constant pursuit of reimagining the human-building experience. Previously she was on the Google Assistant team where she led work on 3P speakers, wearables and IoT. Before Google, Chrisoula was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, City Science Group where her work was focused on design research and responsive environments for home and work spaces. She is formally trained as an architect, with a Masters in Architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor's in Architecture from the City College of New York. She has also held design positions in other companies like IDEO, Harvard's REAL Lab, Wise Systems and BKSK Architects and has collaborated extensively with the design and architecture community on a variety of efforts. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachnick/support

Mark Mirchandani and Priyanka Vergadia are here this week to talk about some cool things that are going on. Then, Mark brings us an interesting interview all about documentation in development with Technical Writing Manager Riona Macnamara. Riona specializes in technical documentation for DevOps at Google. Having written technical documentation for both external and internal audiences, Riona starts the show comparing the two, explaining how the process can be very different. In external writing, she stresses the importance of engineers and technical writers working together. She details the challenges of documentation in code development culture and offers some solutions. Laying out goals can create better quality documents, while providing a simple documentation process for engineers can help bolster a culture of documenting. She talks about open source projects, stressing that documentation is possibly more necessary because of the diverse contributor base. We wrap up the interview learning how to get started creating and maintaining useful documentation. Better trumps best with documentation; a lot of decent documentation is better than very few documents no one can find or use! Riona Macnamara Riona is a 13-year Google veteran, and a documentation manager in Google Cloud. Previously at Google, she drove Google’s open source documentation strategy, led the team that developed Google’s internal engineering doc platform used by more than 20,000 projects, and supported Google’s Webmaster Tools (now Search Console). Before Google, she was a product manager at Amazon, and spent ten years at Microsoft as an editor on Encarta and mapping products, and a technical writer. She is a frequent speaker on documentation, open source, and diversity and inclusion, and is based in New York City. Cool things of the week Google Cloud VMware Engine is now generally available blog I built an AI-powered moderation bot for Discord video Interview Berlin Buzzwords 2019: Aizhamal Nurmamat Kyzy & Riona MacNamara - From User to Contributor video Documentation for Good: Knowledge as a tool for equity and inclusion video SREcon18 Asia/Australia - Do Docs Better: Practical Tips on Delivering Value to your Business video DevOps Days Galway videos Write the Docs Portland 2019 videos Write the Docs Austrailia 2019 videos Technical Writing Courses at Google site Docs Like Code on Amazon site Tip of the week This week, we learn how to authenticate a REST API. What’s something cool you’re working on? Riona will be the Keynote speaker for TCWorld India Priyanka’s been working on new episodes of Cloud Bytes. App Engine in a Minute is now up! She’s also working on her series GCP Comics.

Mark Mirchandani and Priyanka Vergadia host this week’s episode of the podcast, with a thorough discussion of Solutions Engineering at Google. Our guests, Grace Mollison and Ann Wallace, explain that the Solutions Engineering team is there to help customers choose appropriate products for things like security, analytics, data management, and more. The products are laid out in guides and blueprints so the client can easily understand why products are chosen and how to use them. Grace and Ann talk later in the podcast about the Solutions Engineering blueprints that Solutions Engineering Architects have begun creating. They describe how the idea came about, how they’re built, as well as the types of blueprints that are available and how to use them. The team is still working to create more blueprints and make them even easier to use. Grace Mollison Based in London, UK, Grace Mollison leads the Cloud Solutions Architect team in EMEA, where she helps customers to understand how to architect and deploy applications “safely” on the Google Cloud platform. In her spare time she spends time attempting to teach her international team how to speak the Queen’s English! Before Google, Grace was a Solutions Architect at AWS where she worked with the AWS ecosystem and customers to ensure well architected solutions. Ann Wallace Ann Wallace (she/her) is Security Solutions Manager for Google Cloud where she develops, designs, and packages security solutions for Enterprise Customers. She co-wrote Google’s guidance for running PCI compliant workloads on GKE. Before Google, Ann spent 14 years at Nike in various engineering and architecture roles. She volunteers and leads workshops with Women Who Code Portland. When not working, Ann can be found traveling and ultra-trail running with her dog, Cedar. Cool things of the week Father’s Day present of the past: 30 years of family videos in an AI archive blog GCP Podcast Episode 214: AI in Healthcare with Dale Markowitz podcast Open Match is now 1.0 and ready for deployment in production blog Google Data Center Security: 6 Layers Deep video Interview Cloud Solutions site Security blueprint: PCI on GKE site PCI and GKE Blueprint on GitHub site GCP Podcast Episode 116: Solution Architects with Miles Ward and Grace Mollison podcast GCP Podcast Episode 174: Professional Services with Ann Wallace and Michael Wallman podcast Terraform site Kubernetes site Anthos site Anthos security blueprint: Auditing and monitoring for deviation from policy site Anthos security blueprint: Enforcing policies site Anthos security blueprint: Enforcing locality restrictions for clusters on Google Cloud site OnlineBoutique on GitHub site Tip of the week How can I get introduced to key products? With Priyanka’s new video series! What’s something cool you’re working on? Our guests will be giving talks at virtual summits, including KubeCon and CISO Forum. Priyanka has been working on a new video series called Google Cloud Drawing Board, as well as a new animation series that will launch next week!

Saurabh Srivastava is a seasoned User-Centered Innovation Manager, Design Strategist and Mixed Method Researcher with over ten years of experience. Over the length of his professional career, He has played a vital role in over 15 user-centred innovation technologies, authored 40+ peer-reviewed research publications and holds 15+ filed/granted Patents. Saurabh presently works as Lead Researcher for Google Pay focussing on Growth and Monetization. He was responsible for Growth and Partnerships Research in an earlier project. Before Google, he worked as a Senior Scientist and Research Manager in Conduent Labs India and also HCI research in IBM Research. He has also been named as as "Innovators under 35" (MIT TR 35 under 35) by MIT Tech Review for the year 2015. On this episode, Saurabh shared his journey into design sharing his experiences in working for many research labs. We also discussed the way of approach to innovation along with classification and patterns in innovation. We shed some light on how being a designer its an added advantage to be an innovator. Takeaways: What are innovations, What are various types and patterns in innovation, Principles and Process of innovation Books recommended by Saurabh Srivastava Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Thank you for listening to this episode of Nodes of Design. We hope you are enjoying the Nodes of Design Podcast on your favourite podcast platforms- Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts. If this episode helped you to understand and learn something new, please share and rate us and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all as knowledge shouldn't hide behind paywalls. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Click on the link below to discover the #1 skill to making money with affiliate marketing. What do you think it is? http://www.trustthelink.com/ Hey, today I want to talk about what is a backlink in affiliate marketing. Backlinks are when another website links to your webpage. They put a link that directs their visitor to go to your site. They used to help with seo and getting your webpage found in the search engines. Now, they don't help all that much. Before Google became the number 1 search engine there was a lot of competition. This was the time when it was all about keyword stuffing. This determined who got to page 1 on the search engine, so it would be found. As you can guess people were sticking keywords all over the place to try to get to the top spot. Google was the first search engine to not only look at on page factors like keywords, but also who was linking to that page. This is called off page seo. This naturally led to people to spamming backlinks to get to the top spot. This was when I got started about 10 years ago, buying a program called Backlink Battleplan. It was all about building backlinks. Now, Google has come out with many updates like Panda, Penguin and many more. All these updates mean that building backlinks are not nearly as valuable as they once were. Some people still build backlinks, but your time is better spent doing other things. The only thing Google wants is the best user experience and they look at tons and tons of things, not just backlinks. Instead of trying to trick the machine, which I don't think is a good idea. I recommend targeting low competition keywords and giving someone the best user experience. That is it. If you are going to target keywords that are insanely competitive you are not going to get found. It's supply and demand, attention arbitrage. Just give Google what it wants. Be as helpful as you can, give the best user experience and naturally people will stick on your webpage, engage with it and you will get high in the search rankings getting more views. One more thing, make sure your keywords are as targeted as you can be. Whoever your target market is you want to be highly targeted to them. How do you find these keywords to target? I recommend going to Quora and searching your niche and see what questions people are asking. You could also go to forums in your niche. Also if you type your keyword into Google at the bottom of the page it says related searches and it gives you more ideas. Another point I have to make is don't just rely on Google for traffic. You can use many sources like podcasting, articles, Quora, Soundcloud for podcasting, Ebooks, TikTok anywhere you can communicate with someone can be a traffic source naturally. Basically I'll take one piece of content and promote it to places where it can be found like Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Linkedin and others. I'm not doing it for the backlink or the seo, I'm doing it for the traffic. You might be wondering how this relates to affiliate marketing. Well, affiliate marketing is promoting various products online. You don't want to promote products on a webpage. It's much better to get people to an optin page where they join a list. Then you send messages to the list promoting various products. The reason this is the best way is because nearly everyone doesn't purchase the first time they see something. When they are on your list you can sale more products to them. Search engines help your articles, posts or videos get found and when it is found you lead people to an optin page where they can join your list.

Back around 1995 or 1996, I was teaching my 8th grade class about vocations and the different religious orders. Their assignment was to research a particular religious order and write a report to share with the class. Now this was around 1996 B.G. Before Google. There was no Internet, no search engines, no Wikipedia, no email, and so I had given them a magazine that listed addresses for all the different religious orders in the United States. They got into groups, chose a religious community, did some encyclopedia...

Click on the link below to discover MY number 1 tip to help your affiliate business. What do you think it is? http://www.trustthelink.com/ Hey, today I'm going to share with you some of the best social media sites for Backlinks that can help your affiliate business and to make money online. The first product I purchased to improve my affiliate marketing was Backlink Battleplan by Shaun Mchlough. With those tools I could get nearly any webpage to the first few spots in Google. I was using blog networks and article spinning. That was 10 years ago. The reason Google took off as a search engine was because they looked at who was backlinking your page that you wanted to rank. Before Google everyone was stuffing keywords into there webpage. Now things have changed and Google has cracked down on backlinks. You can't really game the system like you could many years ago using black hat seo tactics. This is why they really cracked down on backlinks. Now, some people recommend email blogs begging for a link back. It just is not as productive as focusing on the end user. Here is an example with YouTube videos the more people who click on your video and continue to watch it the better the rankings will be. Now, everyone creates custom thumbnails, so more people click on their video and they can rank. Whatever makes your thumbnail stand out, will probably get it more clicks. If people comment, like and share your video this also can help. Same thing with a blog or article. Everything should be for the end user because they vote and this tells Google who should be ranked 1 or 100. Of course it also comes down to supply and demand. If you are targeting keywords, where there is this massive supply then it's going to be hard to compete. If you are targeting keywords that don't have a lot of competition then it's going to be easier. This is economics 101. It's better to go after keywords that are not very competitive and you know your video or article will get seen. All you have to do is make sure the keywords are in the title and a few sentences in your description and tags. If Backlinks don't work for ranking a blog, article or video should someone still do it? If that can increase the eyeballs on your content then yes. One of the best places is Pinterest because it's a search engine in itself. Reddit can be another great one because there are over a million subreddits that you can advertise into. You just have to be careful and each place has there own rules. Those are 2 big places another one I recommend is Yahoo question or Quora. You answer a question and then link back to your content. Twitter is something I definatly use. There is a right way to do Twitter and wrong way. There are a few social bookmarking sites that can help, but I don't go crazy with it. Digg, Bibsonomy, Google Bookmarks, Tumblr and Plurk to name a few. There are a lot more, just realize they are probably not going to do a lot to help your post or video to rank. I do it because it only takes a minute and it might help, but probably doesn't. Focus on the end user, which is what Google and all the websites are focusing on and you will do better. I hope you got some value from this post or video on best social media sites for backlinks, if you did then please hit the thumbs up button. Lastly, I've been doing affiliate marketing for around 10 years. If you want to discover my number 1 tip to help you grow your business click on the link below or check out my website at http://www.trustthelink.com/ Bye for now.

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We’re back! This week, Mark welcomes Gabi as his new co-host! Listen in as they discuss Knative with Mark Chmarny and Ville Aikas. So what is Knative? Mark and Ville explain that Knative is basically a way to simplify Kubernetes for developers. This way, developers can focus on writing good code without worrying about all the aspects of Kubernetes, such as deploying and autoscaling. Knative helps with these functions automatically. Knative also supports many languages which allows developers to bring their own stack. The day-to-day of developing doesn’t change, which is the beautiful thing about Knative! Knative is open source and easy to deploy. Developers can find installation guides online for any Kubernetes certified instance of service. A link to the installation guide for Knative on GKE is in our show notes. Mark Chmarny Mark is a Technical Program Manager for Serverless focusing on enabling customers to be successful with our serverless portfolio on GCP, and driving community awareness of our serverless products on GKE. Prior to that Mark lead the Partner Engineering team for Data, Analytics and ML at Google. Before Google, Mark was the Sr. Director of Datacenter Solutions Group at Intel. Ville Aikas Ville is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee for Knative, leads Knative Eventing, and (with Matt) conceived ducks for K8s. Previously, Ville worked on Helm, K8s Service Catalog and Kubernetes (before it was Kubernetes). Before the OSS stint Ville was a TL for Google Cloud Storage. Cool things of the week Let the sunshine in: opening the market for more renewable energy in Asia blog Get Go-ing with Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language blog Building Google’s Game of the Year with Cloud Text-to-Speech and App Engine blog Welcome to the service mesh era: Introducing a new Istio blog post series blog Interview Knative site Knative Blog blog Knative on GitHub site Kubernetes site MiniKube site GKE site Pub/Sub site Cloudevents site Knative Install on Google Kubernetes Engine site Knative Slack site Question of the week How long does it take for Cloud SQL to detect an outage and trigger High Availability failover? Where can you find us next? Gabi will be discussing the awesome new features of MySQL 8.0 at PHP UK - London and you will be also able to find her at Cloud NEXT Mark will be at GDC in March, Cloud NEXT, and ECG in April Our guests will be at Cloud NEXT and KubeCon Barcelona

Le'ts learn to get creative with video with ex Google Product Manager, video tool creator and Co Founder of Kapwing Julia Enthoven. Video is clearly where it’s at when it comes to online and social media marketing, but as an entrepreneur it’s not always a strength. What are the biggest challenges we face? What are some of the biggest mistakes people make when it comes to using video? Besides shooting a video and uploading, how can we be more creative to attract attention? What are your top 3 tools and how can they help us market our business to attract more customers? What is your favorite tool that you can NOT live without? What is coming up that you are working on? Julia is the co-founder and CEO of Kapwing, an online video editor for creative professionals. Julia left her job as a Google Product Manager to start Kapwing last July with Eric Lu, another X-Googler. Before Google, she graduated from Stanford in Mathematical Computer Science and loves running, playing volleyball, and exploring San Francisco!" www.Kapwing.com

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Before Google, Facebook, Apple & Amazon, who dominated headlines? Big bad invenstment banks were at the forefront, but now the tech industry is front and center. Are the big 4 tech companies too big to fail? And do they own us? Here's what we cover in this week's episode: - Are these companies ethical? How do we define evil? Is there a line that companies can cross? - How long will it take our government to catch up to these new leaders and begin to effectively regulate them? - These companies market themselves as "connection" platforms, even though they're really about monetization and collecting data. Can we see beyond the marketing? - How are all these companies integrated with each other? Who does it best? - What the future looks like: what's the business model when these platforms have amassed all our data? Will Facebook become less of a "requirement" down the line, or are these companies here to stay in some form? - What would happen if Facebook or Google went under? Plus, we discuss what's exciting us in the world of technology and innovation this week: Beefchain (blockchain for beef) and Wikibuy.

On this episode, I spoke with Amanda Peterson, formerly the Head of Naming and Leader of Brand Management at Google. While there, she helped establish Alphabet, Google's parent company, as well as sister companies like Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving car company. Before Google, Amanda headed up naming at HP—before I held that role—and also worked at Logitech and Landor. She recently left Silicon Valley and is now Head of Marketing and Communications at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Amanda and I go way back. I first met her when I was Director of Verbal Identity at Interbrand San Francisco and she was my client at HP. And then, funny enough, when she went to Google, I went over and took her place as Global Head of Naming at HP. Amanda and I talked about naming briefs, her approach to name generation, one of her favorite names (Bluetooth), her pet peeves in brand names, and what she likes most about being a namer.

This week, we dive into machine learning bias and fairness from a social and technical perspective with machine learning research scientists Timnit Gebru from Microsoft and Margaret Mitchell (aka Meg, aka M.) from Google. They share with Melanie and Mark about ongoing efforts and resources to address bias and fairness including diversifying datasets, applying algorithmic techniques and expanding research team expertise and perspectives. There is not a simple solution to the challenge, and they give insights on what work in the broader community is in progress and where it is going. Timnit Gebru Timnit Gebru works in the Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics (FATE) group at the New York Lab. Prior to joining Microsoft Research, she was a PhD student in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, studying computer vision under Fei-Fei Li. Her main research interest is in data mining large-scale, publicly available images to gain sociological insight, and working on computer vision problems that arise as a result, including fine-grained image recognition, scalable annotation of images, and domain adaptation. The Economist and others have recently covered part of this work. She is currently studying how to take dataset bias into account while designing machine learning algorithms, and the ethical considerations underlying any data mining project. As a cofounder of the group Black in AI, she works to both increase diversity in the field and reduce the impact of racial bias in the data. Margaret Mitchell M. Mitchell is a Senior Research Scientist in Google's Research & Machine Intelligence group, working on artificial intelligence. Her research involves vision-language and grounded language generation, focusing on how to evolve artificial intelligence toward positive goals. Margaret's work combines machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, social media, and insights from cognitive science. Before Google, Margaret was a founding member of Microsoft Research's “Cognition” group, focused on advancing artificial intelligence, and a researcher in Microsoft Research's Natural Language Processing group. Cool things of the week GPS/Cellular Asset Tracking using Google Cloud IoT Core, Firestore and MongooseOS blog GPUs in Kubernetes Engine now available in beta blog Announcing Spring Cloud GCP - integrating your favorite Java framework with Google Cloud blog Interview PAIR | People+AI Research Initiative site FATE | Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in AI site Fat* Conference site & resources Joy Buolamwini site Algorithmic Justice Leaguge site ProPublica Machine Bias article AI Ethics & Society Conference site Ethics in NLP Conference site FACETS site TensorFlow Lattice repo Sample papers on bias and fairness: Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification paper Facial Recognition is Accurate, if You're a White Guy article Mitigating Unwanted Biases with Adversarial Learning paper Improving Smiling Detection with Race and Gender Diversity paper Fairness Through Awareness paper Avoiding Discrimination through Casual Reasoning paper Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings paper Satisfying Real-world Goals with Dataset Constraints paper Axiomatic Attribution for Deep Networks paper Monotonic Calibrated Interpolated Look-Up Tables paper Equality of Opportunity in Machine Learning blog Additional links: Bill Nye Saves the World Episode 3: Machines Take Over the World (includes Margaret Mitchell) site “We're in a diversity crisis”: Black in AI's founder on what's poisoning the algorithms in our lives article Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographics with Timnit Gebru TWiML & AI podcast Security and Safety in AI: Adversarial Examples, Bias and Trust with Mustapha Cisse TWiML & AI podcast How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us TED PAIR Symposium conference Question of the week “Is there a gcp service that's cloud identity-aware proxy except for a static site that you host via cloud storage?” Answer between Mark & KF Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy site & docs Cloud Storage site & docs Hosting a Static Website on Cloud Storage site Google App Engine site & docs weasel repo Where can you find us next? Melanie will be at Fat* in New York in Feb. Mark will be at the Game Developer's Conference | GDC in March.

Have you ever wanted to know what powers BigQuery under the hood? Tino Tereshko and Jordan Tigani sit in front of the microphone with co-hosts Mark and Francesc to talk all about it! About Tino Tereshko Tino is the Big Data Lead for Office of the CTO at Google Cloud, focusing on building strategic relationships with the world's top Enterprises in the interest of sharing and accelerating technological innovation. Tino hails from the BigQuery team, where he solved difficult cloud-native product problems, enabled Googlers and customers, and built programs like BigQuery Pacific. In earlier years Tino held various positions of leadership in several Silicon Valley startups, and could be found working as a quant developer on the floor of the Chicago Board of Equities at a boutique market making firm. Tino holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from University of California - Davis. When not at work, you can usually find him playing beach volleyball, cycling, skiing, paddle boarding, or enjoying a nice glass of wine. About Jordan Tigani Jordan was one of the founding engineers on Google BigQuery, wrote the first book on the subject, and is now the engineering lead of the product. Before Google, he worked at a number of star-crossed startups, and also spent time at Microsoft in the Windows kernel team and MSR. Cool things of the week This week in Google Cloud Platform medium This week in Google Cloud — “Premium and Standard networking tiers, NYT Games on App Engine, Puppet for GCP, and a firewall for App Engine” blog Creating a GCP type provider in 6 (well 7) easy steps blog Aja Hammerly's Battleship blog series Interview BigQuery site docs BigQuery under the hood blog Dremel paper Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes podcast Question of the week I want to talk to to my phone like it's J.A.R.V.I.S. and make it do things. How can I build a bot to do this? Cloud Speech API site docs Cloud Natural Language Processing API site docs API.AI site docs Intents docs Go library github BigQuery Where can you find us next? Francesc will be presenting at Google Cloud Summit in Sydney and Google Cloud Summit in Chicago in September. In October, he'll be presenting at Velocity London, Google Cloud Summit Paris and Devfest Nantes Mark is speaking at Austin Game Conference and attending Strangeloop in September. He is also heading to Australia in October for GDG Devfest Melbourne and Game Connect Asia Pacific and will be hanging out at Unite Melbourne and PAX Australia.

Before Google images and digital cameras, drawing was taught as an essential skill for scientist. This was the most effective way to communicate and teach findings. In addition, this allowed scientist to enhance their observation and identify holes within the way they see structures of study. As clinicians we are commonly put in situations where we need to be able to recognize patterns, visual cues, and structures. The problem is recognition can only be as good as our initial exposure and perception to the source of interest. For example; when Paramedic students are studying the airway anatomy, the main object on their mind is the vocal cords. They commonly will bury their blade into the hypopharynx and quickly become lost in a sea of pink tissue. They aren't looking for the epiglottis, they are on a mission to find the vocal cords. Their initial perception was obscured by their procedural momentum. How Do We Fix This? A few years I incorporated something I call " Illustrative Competence" into my practice. This is the ability re-create something from scratch. All you need to test your knowledge of vital memory aided images is a blank piece of paper and pencil. Below are three experiments for you to try out. Do not become frustrated if this proves to be difficult at first. Remember you are not testing your ability to draw, but rather looking for holes in your cognitive gallery. Draw a normal 1 2 lead from scratch. Sketch out the anatomy of the airway. Illustrate the cardiac conduction cycle. Now check out the podcast!

Our guest this week is the talented Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst for Google Switzerland GmbH. Having worked for Google since 2011, Gary has dedicated his professional career to helping like-minded webmasters create better search experiences for users on quality sites. When not crunching data to find ways to improve web search, he also is a regular contributor to the Webmaster Central Blog, as well as the Google Webmaster Forums. Before Google, Gary taught online journalism in Romania and worked as a technical consultant for several high-profile media outlets. He studied IT at the University of Phoenix and holds an associate degree in journalism from the Ady Endre College of Journalism in Romania.We’re super excited to have Gary on with us, and he’s more than happy to answer your questions! To have your question featured on our show, just email us at robert@searchtalklive.com. And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and listen in our iHeartRadio app to keep up with all the latest STL news!

Our guest this week is the talented Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst for Google Switzerland GmbH. Having worked for Google since 2011, Gary has dedicated his professional career to helping like-minded webmasters create better search experiences for users on quality sites. When not crunching data to find ways to improve web search, he also is a regular contributor to the Webmaster Central Blog, as well as the Google Webmaster Forums. Before Google, Gary taught online journalism in Romania and worked as a technical consultant for several high-profile media outlets. He studied IT at the University of Phoenix and holds an associate degree in journalism from the Ady Endre College of Journalism in Romania. We’re super excited to have Gary on with us, and he’s more than happy to answer your questions! To have your question featured on our show, just email us at robert@searchtalklive.com. And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and listen in our iHeartRadio app to keep up with all the latest STL news!

This week, Mark and Francesc get a chance to talk directly to the Director of Customer Reliability Engineering himself, Luke Stone, all about CRE - where it came from, what it's goals are, and how it's been working with some big customers at Google Cloud Platform. About Luke Stone Luke is defining the customer experience of Google's new Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team. When he joined Google in 2002 he was the first technical support engineer for AdSense. He ran software engineering teams and started building on Google App Engine in 2009. Recently, he led the technical support team for Google Cloud Platform before becoming a founding member of the CRE team. Before Google, Luke was a system administrator and developer in academic and non-profit organizations, and studied computer science at Stanford. Cool things of the week Google Cloud announces Machine Learning Startup Competition blog Quantifying the performance of the TPU, our first machine learning chip blog DeepBreath: Preventing angry emails with machine learning blog github Interview Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog All the CRE blog posts blog Site Reliability Engineering book Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure chapter Question of the week Rokesh Jankie returns this week, with another question: What does it mean to have 99.99% availability. That's not 100%, what does it mean for customers who have mission critical applications? SRE II with Paul Newson podcast High Availability wikipedia Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes podcast Where can you find us next? Mark is going to be at and then on to East Coast Games Conference and Vector in April. He's also going to be hosting the Playcrafting + Extra Life Game Jame & Game Fest, raising money for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Finally he'll be in Sweden for Nordic Games Conference as well. Francesc will be presenting at Gophercon China in April, and will then be at the New York Google Developer Group for a Serverless event! Francesc has also released a new Just for Func episode, covering the Context package!

  My guest in this episode is Brett Crosby. Brett crafts the strategy, product and message behind PeerStreet and is responsible for product, marketing, PR, sales and business development. Previously, he was Director of Marketing at Google where his 10 year tenure spanned many of Google's most prominent products. Most notably, he co-founded Google Analytics, helped start Google's mobile advertising business, ran the founding marketing team that launched Google+ and most recently ran the marketing teams responsible for the dramatic growth of Chrome, Gmail, Docs and Drive. Before Google he co-founded Urchin Software Corporation, a web analytics service acquired by Google in 2005. Brett advises and invests in startups and is an active real estate investor. He graduated USC with degrees in international relations and political science, and furthered his education with programs at Georgetown, Michigan State and Semester at Sea. PeerStreet is an award-winning, Andreessen-Horowitz backed, platform focused on democratizing access to real estate debt. The company provides investments in high-yield, short term, real estate backed loans. PeerStreet's unique marketplace allows investors to diversify their capital in an asset class that has been traditionally difficult to access. Loans are sourced and curated from vetted private lenders throughout the United States who have local real estate expertise and borrower relationships. The model allows for more borrowers to access capital and improve their local communities, one house at a time. PeerStreet's platform is secure and intuitive with an easy-to-use interface, offering a wealth of information and tools for every level of investor. Share your thoughts with me on Twitter @mclaubscher and Instagram @cashflowninjapodcast Click To Tweet: Disrupting the Mortgage Finance and Securitization Market With Brett Crosby If you have enjoyed our podcast, please share with friends and family Please Subscribe, Rate, and Review on Itunes so more people can find us! so more people can find us! Interview Links: www.peerstreet.com Support Our Sponsors Joint Ops Properties, have designed a system to take any beginner to an experienced deal making investor in the least amount of time, offering opportunities from basic education, coaching, bridge investing to turn-key investments in the cash flowing market of St. Louis, MO. www.jointopsproperties.com International Coffee Farms, Sustainable Income Through Offshore Sustainable Agriculture www.internationalcoffeefarms.com Audible, download any audio book for FREE when you try Audible for 30 days  www.cashflowninjabook.com Thanks so much for joining me again this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post! Also, please leave an honest review for the Cashflow Ninja Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates, please follow me on twitter @mclaubscher and instagram, @cashflowninjapodcast. Until next time! Live a life of passion and purpose on YOUR terms, M.C. Laubscher