Google Cloud Summit Amsterdam 2018
General impression: it was more useful for enterprises considering moving to the cloud than for developers. Below are a few interesting notes.
Keynote:
- 1350 people in the room, 600 outside
- Google deploys 4 billion containers per week
- Everything is containers
- Cost is not a factor of the number of things, but the number of types of things
- Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability: Dijkstra
- GKE - they seemed a bit concerned about competitors using Kubernetes
- GKE has multi-node ingress
- Istio - microservices management
- Google adds 8 tons of disks/day
Bol:
- 20 million products
- 20k sellers
- sold 25 items/second peak
- 25x increase since 2010
- 400 developers
- 70 autonomous teams
- developers have the best tooling
- they are a retail platform, not an IT platform: can’t out-innovate
- considered building own private cloud but gave up
- ⅓ of sales are mid-November to end December
AI/ML:
- 10,000 deep learning specialists in the world
- 2 million data scientists
- 23 million developers
- 60% of data scientists’ work not used because of all “the other stuff”
- AutoML - AI so that you don’t need to be a data scientist
- most Google products use AI, eg Sheets uses AI so that you can ask a question in natural language
- TensorFlow OS ML
- Kubeflow OS - any cloud
APIs:
- an API should be presented like Lego: sell it as a product in a box with instructions
- 6 Lego bricks can be arranged in 100 million combinations