Translated from 日本語 • View original Hello. This is Furuyama, an engineer. I had the opportunity to participate in Google Cloud Next, an event sponsored by Google. The members who participated this time are Ichihashi from sales, Kasuya as engineers, and Furuyama. A total of 4 days, 1 day of event for partners + 3 days for the general public. It was a luxurious 4 days of continuous exposure to Google Cloud information.
Even if you are in Japan, you can watch the keynote through YouTube
Google Cloud Next '18 Official Page
And information on various products is also published.
Google Cloud Next 2018 Summary (Thanks to @sinmetal)
In this situation, the exhaustive explanation will be thin and there is no point in my visit to the site, so I will announce the top 10 information that I was concerned about due to my dogma and prejudice!
10th place: San Francisco's shower operation is too difficult
GCP, sorry. I unknowingly forgot to take a picture of the shower in question, so I took an Airbnb to see the appearance of the accommodation.
A lazy picture of waiting for an Uber in front of the inn in the morning
I'll also put a link to Airbnb. If there are more than 3 people, a hotel (average 30,000 units per night?) I recommend it cheaper.
Gorgeous & Updated 2 Bedroom in Cow Hollow
However, in the shower in San Francisco, although the shower head has an outstanding presence, even if you operate the lever in front of you, the hot water just drips from the faucet to store hot water in the bathtub, and the shower is neither good nor bad. Even if you look around, you can't find a button or lever that seems to be coming out of the shower.
Stupid...
Speaking of San Francisco, it is a promised land full of affordance, which has created a number of services that will take the world by storm with UI/UX. There is no need for language, and if there is a willingness to ask for it, it should be easy for even a three-year-old child to realize the demand. That's just twisting hot water out of the shower, and you can't do it!
The three IT men who are staying at the inn I took on Airbnb are messing around with each other, but there is no sign of hot water coming out at all. Does this mean that I have no choice but to spend 5 days without a shower? While expressing despair in three ways, I suddenly noticed the existence of a smartphone.
Well, it's now an Internet society. All difficulties have already been experienced, and the solution is public! All you have to do is search for that method on Google, which organizes information about the world! So, this is the article that became a hit. How to take a shower in the bath! !
Well, it's a really convenient world. When I looked around, I found that the faucet under it was not the shower, but the key. When I pulled the mouth of the faucet down tightly with the hot water on full (this point), the hot water overflowed from the shower, which had remained completely silent.
Thanks Google. I had already benefited from this even before participating in the conference. It has nothing to do with the cloud. Anyway, why is this operation? It's a devastating UI and there's no affordance. It's not in a shape that makes you want to pull it. I don't know if I can pull it in the first place. I wonder if it can be structurally simplified.
9th place: GKE On-Prem is also GKE.
I don't fear misunderstanding, but as someone who has been exposed to AWS for a long time, I think GCP is still far from AWS in terms of details. For example, you can't put a CloudSQL instance in a VPC. Well, I think that security is guaranteed by connecting via a proxy, but it is not intuitive and increases the time. Also, for PostgreSQL, CloudSQL is still only 9.6 and 10 is not supported. This is naturally supported by AWS RDS. There is a big gap between 10 and 9.x in terms of table partitioning functions, so I want to use 10. In the first place, the world is about to hear the sound of 11 footsteps.
I can see and hide the feeling that there is no emphasis on these RDBs, the so-called relational databases. Google should have a lot of super good engineers. I'm sorry to stick to RDB, but I think this is a normal thing for someone who makes a web service. WordPress, GitLab, and Rails all use RDB. To be honest, I want you to put more effort into RDB. But even if you put a lot of effort into RDB, you have no choice but to become the second best of AWS, which is ahead of you.
Speakers also appear in containers
In this situation, how are you trying to beat AWS, which is the de facto player in the cloud world? I felt that the answer prepared by Google to this difficult problem was this, that is, to push all containers.
Kubernetes is usually operated with kubectl, which is a command-line tool, but the ease of access is different if a web console is prepared. Especially around the cluster, which is the lower part of the kubenetes. This is a solution that can be handled in an integrated manner with GKE's UI as if it were a cluster in the cloud.
On-premise and cloud can be handled in the same way. A service that leads customers who cannot abandon their on-premise assets to the cloud. To be honest, I was shocked that this was the case.
It seems to be a service for customers with a large amount of on-premise assets. I guess it's a mega bank. In that sense, I feel that it is still too early in Japan, but at the global level, it seems that customers who seem to be slow to move are moving to the cloud.
8: npm's CTO was a purple-haired woman
It was about the keynote on the last day.
In the stage of introducing Google's startup partner, a purple-haired lady (sorry!) suddenly appeared. ）。
I heard that all the people who run the website use her company's products. Is that possible? Are you making it with a browser? The shocking fact that confronted me when I was thinking about something that was off the mark. She was the CTO of NPM, Inc.
CJ Silverio
npm is the node.js package manager. Even if all websites are too good, there is no doubt that almost all sites are indebted to you. Rather, I was shocked that a company that handles such a super important tool is still called a startup. No, I'm really surprised.
7: Cloud Functions is GA
It was a conference where the word "serverless" came and went, but when it comes to serverless, it is AWS Lambda. Cloud Functions is a head-on opponent to Lambda. Azure also has an equivalent service called Azure Functions. Announcement that Cloud Functions has finally been GA. By the way, GA is an abbreviation for Generally Available, and it has been officially released, which is common among engineers in the sense, but it was difficult to be interpreted at the same time, perhaps because it is not a general term. There may be a conference that says that it is easier to understand without translation.
As for me, eh, haven't you GA yet? I was surprised. Or rather, on the Japanese page, as of August 6, 2018, it is still marked as beta. Is it okay?
There are many advertisements for GCNext around the venue.
However, it seems that many companies are still operating in a production environment at this time. Does that mean that even if it is a beta, it is a safe and reliable Google quality? The SLA is a 99.5% monthly uptime guarantee, so there is a possibility of 3.6 hours of downtime per month. Hmm, I guess it's a bit harsh for critical service. I think it's batch processing.
6th place: The greatness of Kavehi, which Mr. Kasuya immediately became a fan of.
Every day the conference starts with a keynote, but whether it was to reward those who came a little early or to avoid irritating the people who gathered at the keynote, which was difficult to start, I invited artists and did something like a mini live every day until the keynote started. On the first day of public release, she appeared as a cute girlfriend, Kavehi. To be honest, I didn't know at all.
It was amazing. I forgot to take a picture, so from youtube
I live far from music, so it can't be helped, but Mr. Kasuya, who I went with seemed to be quite a music connoisseur. He was an artist I didn't know even if I had him, so I think he was a person who only knew him. However, Mr. Kasuya quickly became a fan and became the background music of the inn every day. If you watch YouTube, you can see what's amazing, but it's a skill that can do everything from voice percussion to keyboard play by yourself, mix it on the spot, and make it into heavy music. Call people and "one-man orchestra".
Click here for the youtube video
Amazing. It's too amazing. There are amazing people in the world. I think there are many people who have become fans through this conference. I hope this will lead to a major event.
5: AutoML announced
ML, or Machine Learning, is Tensorflow. Tensorflow is a difficult thing that requires a high level of mathematical knowledge to write in Python. If you don't do it eventually, it will have an impact that will cause you to lose your job, but the threshold is too high to understand. Disbanded. That was my image of ML. I thought it was just me, but it seems that Google and those around it also thought that ML was too difficult and difficult to approach. This AutoML has emerged as a product of Google Cloud.
It consists of three products: VISION for image recognition, Natural Language for language processing, and Translation for translation. All of these are the easiest fields that come to mind when you want to do ML.
How easy is it to get used to? I tried using it because I didn't know until I used it.
I tried using Cloud AutoML Vision (just used it)
My impressions are **easy! ** This is good! If we increase the data for training, the accuracy will increase. It seems to be recommended for those who want to use ML easily.
So the first half was up to 5th place. Please look forward to the second half!
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