Mark and Melanie are your hosts again this week as we talk with Steren Giannini and Stewart Reichling discussing what’s new with App Engine. Particularly its new second generation runtime, allowing headless Chrome, and better language support! And automatic scalability to make your life easier, too. App Engine also has an interesting way of inspiring new Google products. Tune in to learn more!



Steren Giannini

Steren Giannini is a Product Manager on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He graduated from École Centrale Lyon, France and then was CTO of a startup that created mobile and multi-device solutions. After joining Google, Steren launched Stackdriver Error Reporting and now focuses on GCP’s serverless offering. Recently, Steren has been working on upgrading App Engine’s auto scaling system and bringing Node.js to App Engine standard environment.

Stewart Reichling

Stewart Reichling is a Product Manager on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and has worked across Strategy, Marketing and Product Management at Google. He currently works on bringing new runtimes (Python, Node.js, +more to come!) to App Engine and Cloud Functions.

Cool things of the week


Robot dance party: How we created an entire animated short at Next ‘18 blog
What’s happening in BigQuery: integrated machine learning, maps, and more blog
Protecting against the new “L1TF” speculative vulnerabilities blog


Interview


App Engine site
Deploying Node.js on App Engine standard environment video
Introducing headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine blog
Node 8 site
Python 3.7.0 site
App Engine PHP 7.2 Runtime Environment Beta site
Headless Chrome site
GCPPodcast Episode 23: Humble Bundle with Andy Oxfeld podcast
Google Cloud Datastore site
App Engine Task Queue site
Ubuntu site
gVisor site
Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime blog
App Engine Documentation site
gcloud app deploy site
To send feedback, email stewartr@google.com or steren@google.com
App Engine Google Group forum
Operating Serverless Apps with Google Stackdriver video
App Engine’s new auto scaling system - scheduler blog


Question of the week

What does it mean when the recommendation is to update your image?


Getting Image Vulnerabilities site
Updating Managed Instance Groups site
Node Images site


Where can you find us next?

Melanie will be at Deep Learning Indaba and Strangeloop.

Mark will be at Pax Dev and Pax West starting August 28th. In September, he’ll be at Tokyo NEXT and Strangeloop.