Dan McGrath and
Alex Dufetel join Francesc and Mark in the studio this week to discuss
Cloud Firestore, the brand new, fully-managed NoSQL document database for mobile and web app development.



About Dan McGrath

Dan McGrath is the Product Manager for Cloud working on databases such as Cloud Firestore. Dan has spent the last decade working in product & engineering for large scale database systems. He has a background in banking software, databases, and information security.

About Alex Dufetel

Alex Dufetel is a Product Manager for the Firebase team at Google, working on Backend-as-Service products such as the Realtime Database and Cloud Firestore. Alex was previously Director of Products at Fuze, a video conferencing and enterprise communications provider and, before that, a co-founder of LiveMinutes, a real-time team collaboration app.

Cool things of the week


Extending per second billing in Google Cloud blog
PHP 7.1 for Google App Engine is generally available blog
Java 8 on App Engine standard environment is now generally available blog migration
Kubernetes 1.8: Security, Workloads and Feature Depth blog
Google Container Engine - Kubernetes 1.8 takes advantage of the cloud built for containers blog
Announcing Cloud IoT Core public beta blog


Interview


Cloud Firestore announcement site docs
Cloud Firestore server sdks docs
Extend Cloud Firestore with Cloud Functions docs
Cloud Firestore for Realtime Database Developers blog
Firestore Discuss google-group
Firestore Realtime Database site docs






Question of the week

How do I import/export data from my Cloud Datastore?


Exporting and Importing Entities docs
Scheduling an Export docs


Where can you find us next?

Francesc just released a new #justforfunc and he’ll be presenting at Go Meetup London, Velocity London, Google Cloud Summit Paris and Devfest Nantes

He is heading to Australia for GDG Devfest Melbourne and Game Connect Asia Pacific and will be hanging out at Unite Melbourne and PAX Australia.