In the eighteenth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Ian Lewis, a Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate based in Tokyo about Bigtable. About Ian Ian is a Developer Advocate on the Google Cloud Platform team working out of Tokyo. Ian loves Python and Go and helps run the largest Python event in Japan, PyCon JP. Ian is also interested in Docker and Kubernetes and hopes to help Google Cloud Platform users achieve their highest potential. Cool thing of the week We’re live at GCPNext with our mics! If you’re around come say hi, and if not follow the event from one of the many local viewing parties or via the live stream. Interview Resources: Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data pdf Google Cloud Bigtable docs Differences between the HBase and Cloud Bigtable APIs docs Cloud Bigtable Pricing Question of the week How to limit what users can do on the resources of your project? Google Cloud Identity and Access Management docs