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