Colt McAnalis joins the podcast this week to talk about his Performance Atlas series where he dives into how to make Google Cloud applications faster and cheaper. In his words, his job is to help get someone promoted.



About Colt McAnlis

Colt McAnlis is a Developer Advocate at Google focusing on performance & compression. Before that, he was a graphics programmer in the games industry working at Blizzard, Microsoft (Ensemble), and Petroglyph. He’s been an Adjunct Professor at SMU Guildhall, a UDACITY instructor (twice), and a Book Author, (twice). When he’s not working with developers, Colt spends his time preparing for an invasion of giant ants from outer space.

Cool things of the week


With Multi-Region Support in Cloud Spanner, have your cake and eat it too blog
The State of Data Science & Machine Learning by Kaggle blog and podcast
Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!) blog


Interview


Performance Atlas series
Profiling App Engine (Standard) Boot Time video
TCP BBR site
Cloud Functions site docs
Understanding Compression book
Google SRE book
TCP/IP Illustrated book
Ilya Grigorik site
Perf Like a Pirate III site


Question of the week

What are the differences between sustained and committed use discounts?


Sustained Use Discounts docs
Committed Use Discounts docs


Where can you find us next?

Mark will be Montreal in December to speak at Montreal International Games Summit.