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Pokémon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic
Pokémon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic
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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Jan 18, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
We’re back! And we’re bringing a seriously cool interview about Pokémon GO with Edward Wu,
Director of Software Engineering at Niantic.
In this interview your co-hosts Francesc and Mark
chat with Ed about the whole history of Pokémon GO,
from the inception of Niantic to the amazing success and the scaling challenges they faced.
About Ed
Ed Wu is a Director, Software Engineering at Niantic who leads the
engineering team of Pokémon GO as well as the Niantic Seattle site.
Before helping to lead Niantic from its successful spin-out from Google, Dr. Wu was a Staff Software
Engineer at Google where he developed machine learning models in ads quality.
He received his PhD from Stanford in Physics in 2009 applying Bayesian parameter estimation models to cosmological data
he collected from three visits to Antarctica and the South Pole.
Cool thing of the week
How we secure our infrastructure: a white paper blog post
Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview docs
Google Cloud Platform icons and sample architectural diagrams, for your designing pleasure blog post
Solution Icons for Architectural Diagrams link
Continuous Deployment to Google Cloud Platform with Drone NYTimes
You can read all the source code in:
Drone
Drone GKE
Drone GAE
Interview
Pokémon GO homepage
Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog post
Leveraging the Google Cloud Platform niantic
Ingress homepage
Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog post
‘Pokémon GO’ Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android Forbes
Pokémon GO logo owned by The Pokémon Company (from Wikipedia)
Pokémon GO stack:
Java on Container Engine docs
Cloud Datastore docs
Cloud Bigtable docs
(and more)
Question of the week
I have these keys that I want to use for encrypting my data at rest.
Managing encryption keys in the cloud: introducing Google Cloud Key Management Service blog post
Google Cloud Key Management docs
Different solutions for different security needs
Director of Software Engineering at Niantic.
In this interview your co-hosts Francesc and Mark
chat with Ed about the whole history of Pokémon GO,
from the inception of Niantic to the amazing success and the scaling challenges they faced.
About Ed
Ed Wu is a Director, Software Engineering at Niantic who leads the
engineering team of Pokémon GO as well as the Niantic Seattle site.
Before helping to lead Niantic from its successful spin-out from Google, Dr. Wu was a Staff Software
Engineer at Google where he developed machine learning models in ads quality.
He received his PhD from Stanford in Physics in 2009 applying Bayesian parameter estimation models to cosmological data
he collected from three visits to Antarctica and the South Pole.
Cool thing of the week
How we secure our infrastructure: a white paper blog post
Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview docs
Google Cloud Platform icons and sample architectural diagrams, for your designing pleasure blog post
Solution Icons for Architectural Diagrams link
Continuous Deployment to Google Cloud Platform with Drone NYTimes
You can read all the source code in:
Drone
Drone GKE
Drone GAE
Interview
Pokémon GO homepage
Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog post
Leveraging the Google Cloud Platform niantic
Ingress homepage
Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog post
‘Pokémon GO’ Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android Forbes
Pokémon GO logo owned by The Pokémon Company (from Wikipedia)
Pokémon GO stack:
Java on Container Engine docs
Cloud Datastore docs
Cloud Bigtable docs
(and more)
Question of the week
I have these keys that I want to use for encrypting my data at rest.
Managing encryption keys in the cloud: introducing Google Cloud Key Management Service blog post
Google Cloud Key Management docs
Different solutions for different security needs
Released:
Jan 18, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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