Cloud Firestore with Dan McGrath and Alex Dufetel

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.