Happy Holidays, everyone! Melanie and Mark wrap up a great year by reminiscing about some of their favorite episodes! We also talk about the big news of the year, our favorite articles, and what’s coming up for the GCP Podcast in 2019.



Cool things of the week


Kubernetes and GKE for developers: a year of Cloud Console blog
Reducing gender bias in Google Translate blog
Cloud Security Command Center is now in beta and ready to use blog


Main content


Podcast accomplishments!


We have awesome new intro and outro music, new website, new YouTube videos!
We hit 1 million and then 2 million downloads!
Mark and the podcast are celebrating their three year anniversary!


Top 10 most downloaded episodes of all time!


GCP Podcast Episode 111: Google Cloud Platform with Sam Ramji podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 112: Percy.io with Mike Fotinakis podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 146: Google AI with Jeff Dean podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 127: SRE vs Devops with Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 128: Decision Intelligence with Cassie Kozyrkov podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 113: Open Source TensorFlow with Yifei Feng podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 88: Kubernetes 1.7 with Tim Hockin podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 108: Launchpad Studio with Malika Cantor and Peter Norvig podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 130: Data Science with Juliet Hougland and Michelle Casbon podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 125: Open Source at Google Cloud Platform with Sarah Novotny podcast


Top 10 most downloaded episodes for 2018!


Exact same list except Tim Hockin is not #7. Following episodes go up a number and we added to #10 spot.
GCP Podcast Episode 122: Project Jupyter with Jessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris Holdgraf podcast


Mark’s favorite episodes


GCP Podcast Episode 129: Developer Relations with Mandy Waite podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 121: Kontributing to Kubernetes with Paris Pittman and Garrett Rodrigues podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 131: Actions on Google with Mandy Chan podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 148: Wellio with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 110: CPU Vulnerability with Matt Linton and Paul Turner podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 125: Open Source at Google Cloud Platform with Sarah Novotny podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 140: Container Security with Maya Kaczorowski podcast


Melanie’s favorite episodes


GCP Podcast Episode 117: Cloud AI Fei-Fei Li was the Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 114: ML Bias & Fairness with Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 141: Accessibility in Tech podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 136: Robotics with Raia podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 150: Strange Loop, Remote Working, and Distributed Systems with KF podcast
DL Indaba


GCP Podcast Episode 147: DL Indaba: AI Investments in Africa podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 149: Deep Learning Research in Africa with Yabebal Fantaye & Jessica Phalafala podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 152: AI Corporations and Communities in Africa with Karim Beguir & Muthoni Wanyoike podcast

GCP Podcast Episode 157: NeurIPS and AI Research with Anima Anandkumar podcast


Favorite announcements, products, and more at Google Cloud


Unity and Google Cloud Strategic Alliance blog


Open Match blog

Cloud TPU site
Google Dataset Search is in beta site
No tricks, just treats: Globally scaling the Halloween multiplayer Doodle with Open Match on Google Cloud blog
GKE On-Prem site
Open Source - Knative release, Skaffold, Istio updates, gVisor, etc.
Google in Ghana blog
Cloud NEXT blog


GCP Podcast Episode 137: Next Day 1 podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 138: Next Day 2 podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 139: Next Day 3 podcast

Unity and DeepMind partner to advance AI research blog
Introducing PyTorch across Google Cloud blog



Question of the week

What were your personal highlights for 2018?


Mark


Agones
Introducing Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting built on Kubernetes blog github
The new website
Having Melanie join m