Today Francesc and
Mark have the honor to be joined
by Alim Jaffer and
Mo Firouz from Heroic Labs to
discuss their open source framework for social and realtime
apps and games.



About Alim Jaffer

A member of the founding team, Alim joined Heroic Labs in 2016 as
the VP of Product after having worked in startups focused in the
games and health verticals.

He is based in Vancouver, Canada and San Francisco.

About Mo Firouz

Mo cofounded Heroic Labs and is part of the core engineering team.
Mo has worked on various products in Heroic Labs including the core
Nakama server as well as Heroic Managed Cloud where he was primarily
responsible for automating server provisioning and the monitoring
stack with Kubernetes. Mo previously worked as a system architect
in VisualDNA and built scalable big-data analytics systems, and
prior to that built realtime high frequency trading systems.

Cool things of the week


CRE life lessons: What is a dark launch, and what does it do for me? blog post

Cloud Dataproc is now even faster and easier to use for running Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop announcement

Canary Deployments using Istio blog post


Interview


Heroic Labs heroiclabs.com
Heroic Labs on GitHub repository
Heroic Labs Documentation
Google Container Engine
CockroachDB






Question of the week

Accessing Cloud SQL instances from Cloud Functions?

Use SQL Proxy, as for the Managed Instance Group, which we cover on episode 81.


Connecting MySQL Client from Compute Engine
About the Cloud SQL Proxy
CloudSQL Proxy GitHub repo


Where can you find us next?

Francesc just released a justforfunc episode on Contributing to the Go project. He’ll be soon taking some well deserved holidays!

Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.