Morgan McLean's guest appearances

Morgan McLean

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Dave Elliott

Andrew Walker

Peter Norvig

Eric Anderson

John Bohannon

Manuel Lima

Margaret Mitchell

Jessie Frazelle

Joanna Smith

Juliet Hougland

Michelle Casbon

Jesse Houston

Mark Chmarny

Ville Aikas

Dale Markowitz

OwlTail

Nimesh Bhagat

First time co-host Jan Kleinert joins Mark Mirchandani this week to talk about database observability and the cool tools that make it possible. Morgan McLean and Nimesh Bhagat describe database observability, which uses metrics, logs, and other tools to help users understand the health of your database. We talk about Object Relational Mappers and the challenges with using these for debugging database performance. SQL Commenter helps database observability in two ways: it is both a library and a standard, Nimesh tells us. He describes the process for us, detailing exactly how SQL Commenter effects projects. Recently, SQL Commenter was donated to OpenTelemetry to augment the observability offerings, create an application standard, and make it easier for developers to use a variety of different tools and languages. Engineers can get end-to-end traces no matter which database technologies they use. Morgan tells us about Splunk and how information from SQL Commenter is taken into Splunk and used. Backend data like metrics from Cloud Monitoring and client libraries can be correlated together with SQL Commenter and brought into Splunk for full stack observability. Nimesh offers client examples to help us understand how these useful tools integrate for optimal observability. He tells us about the databases and ORMs supported by SQL Commenter. Our guests and co-host Jan give tips to help our listeners get started with SQL Commenter and talk about what they’re looking forward to in the future of observability. Nimesh Bhagat Nimesh is a product manager at Google Cloud, he leads Database Observability. He has worked across engineering and product roles, building highly available and high performance enterprise infrastructure used by Fortune 500 companies. His passion lies in combining powerful infrastructure with simple user experience so that every business and developer can build software at scale and velocity. Morgan McLean Morgan is ​​Director of Product Management at Splunk and co-creator of OpenCensus / OpenTelemetry. Cool things of the week  Google Cloud Innovators site Redesigning the Cloud SDK + CLI for easier development  blog   GCP Podcast Episode 291: Redesigning the Cloud SDK and CLI with Wael Manasra and Cody Oss  podcast   What is Active Assist? video   GCP Podcast Episode 235: Active Assist with Chris Law + MariaDB SkySQL with Robert Hedgepeth  podcast    Interview  SQL Commenter site Sequelize site SQL Alchemy site ADO.net  site GCP Podcast Episode 247: Cloud SQL Insights with Nimesh Bhagat  podcast OpenTelemetry site Splunk site Cloud Monitoring site Cloud Spanner site Cloud SQL site Cloud Trace site Sqlcommenter now extending the vision of OpenTelemetry to databases  blog  Hosts Mark Mirchandani and Jan Kleinert

First time co-host <a href="https://twitter.com/jankleinert" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jan Kleinert</a> joins <a href="https://twitter.com/markmirch" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark Mirchandani</a> this week to talk about database observability and the cool tools that make it possible. Morgan McLean and Nimesh Bhagat describe database observability, which uses metrics, logs, and other tools to help users understand the health of your database. We talk about Object Relational Mappers and the challenges with using these for debugging database performance. SQL Commenter helps database observability in two ways: it is both a library and a standard, Nimesh tells us. He describes the process for us, detailing exactly how SQL Commenter effects projects. Recently, SQL Commenter was donated to OpenTelemetry to augment the observability offerings, create an application standard, and make it easier for developers to use a variety of different tools and languages. Engineers can get end-to-end traces no matter which database technologies they use. Morgan tells us about Splunk and how information from SQL Commenter is taken into Splunk and used. Backend data like metrics from Cloud Monitoring and client libraries can be correlated together with SQL Commenter and brought into Splunk for full stack observability. Nimesh offers client examples to help us understand how these useful tools integrate for optimal observability. He tells us about the databases and ORMs supported by SQL Commenter. Our guests and co-host Jan give tips to help our listeners get started with SQL Commenter and talk about what they’re looking forward to in the future of observability. Nimesh Bhagat Nimesh is a product manager at Google Cloud, he leads Database Observability. He has worked across engineering and product roles, building highly available and high performance enterprise infrastructure used by Fortune 500 companies. His passion lies in combining powerful infrastructure with simple user experience so that every business and developer can build software at scale and velocity. Morgan McLean Morgan is ​​Director of Product Management at Splunk and co-creator of OpenCensus / OpenTelemetry. Cool things of the week <ul> <li>Google Cloud Innovators <a href="https://cloud.google.com/innovators" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Redesigning the Cloud SDK + CLI for easier development <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/redesigning-the-cloud-sdk-cli-for-easier-development" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> <li> <ul> <li>GCP Podcast Episode 291: Redesigning the Cloud SDK and CLI with Wael Manasra and Cody Oss <a href="https://gcppodcast.com/post/episode-291-redesigning-the-cloud-sdk-and-cli-with-wael-manasra-and-cody-oss/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>What is Active Assist? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2VgO5N_B7g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a></li> <li> <ul> <li>GCP Podcast Episode 235: Active Assist with Chris Law + MariaDB SkySQL with Robert Hedgepeth <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-235-active-assist-with-chris-law-and-skysql-with-robert-hedgepeth/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> Interview <ul> <li>SQL Commenter <a href="https://google.github.io/sqlcommenter/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Sequelize <a href="https://sequelize.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>SQL Alchemy <a href="https://www.sqlalchemy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li><a href="http://ADO.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ADO.net</a> <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/ado-net-overview" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> site</a></li> <li>GCP Podcast Episode 247: Cloud SQL Insights with Nimesh Bhagat <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-247-cloud-sql-insights-with-nimesh-bhagat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> podcast</a></li> <li>OpenTelemetry <a href="https://opentelemetry.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Splunk <a href="https://www.splunk.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud Monitoring <a href="https://cloud.google.com/monitoring" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud Spanner <a href="https://cloud.google.com/spanner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud SQL <a href="https://cloud.google.com/sql" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Cloud Trace <a href="https://cloud.google.com/trace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Sqlcommenter now extending the vision of OpenTelemetry to databases <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/sqlcommenter-merges-with-opentelemetry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> </ul> Hosts Mark Mirchandani and Jan Kleinert

SQL Commenter with Nimesh Bhagat and Morgan McLean

Product Manager Morgan McLean and Software Engineer JBD join Melanie and Mark this week to discuss the new open source project OpenCensus, a single distribution of libraries for metrics and distributed tracing with minimal overhead that allows you to export data to multiple backends. Morgan McLean Morgan McLean is the Product Manager for Tracing, Debugging, and Profiling at Google, including OpenCensus JBD JBD leads the OpenCensus Go and our integrations with other projects. Cool things of the week  Introducing Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting built on Kubernetes  blog github TensorFlow 1.6 release summit TensorFlow Object Detection on iOS  youtube Optimizing your Cloud Storage performance: Google Cloud Performance Atlas  blog Introducing GCP’s new interactive CLI  blog docs   Interview  OpenCensus site docs Github Organisation github How Google uses Census internally  blog The value of OpenCensus  blog Tracing  Zipkin site Stackdriver site docs jaeger github   Metrics  Stackdriver docs Prometheus site   Google Summer of Code  site   OpenCensus  Question of the week I heard there are abilities to natively extend Kubernetes - what does that mean, and also how do I do that?  Custom Resource Definitions  reference  guide Sample Controller github TGIK Custom Controller video series github youtube youtube youtube An Introduction to Extending Kubernetes with CustomResourceDefinitions  blog memcached-operator etcd-operator  Where can you find us next? Mark will be at the Game Developer’s Conference | GDC in March. You can find him via the Google at GDC 2108 site.

Product Manager Morgan McLean and Software Engineer <a href="https://twitter.com/rakyll" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JBD</a> join <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Melanie</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark</a> this week to discuss the new open source project <a href="https://opencensus.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenCensus</a>, a single distribution of libraries for metrics and distributed tracing with minimal overhead that allows you to export data to multiple backends. Morgan McLean Morgan McLean is the Product Manager for Tracing, Debugging, and Profiling at Google, including OpenCensus JBD <a href="https://twitter.com/rakyll" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JBD</a> leads the OpenCensus Go and our integrations with other projects. Cool things of the week <ul> <li>Introducing Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting built on Kubernetes <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Agones-open-source-multiplayer-dedicated-game-server-hosting-built-on-Kubernetes.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a> <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/agones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">github</a></li> <li>TensorFlow 1.6 <a href="https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.6.0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">release</a> <a href="https://www.tensorflow.org/dev-summit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">summit</a></li> <li>TensorFlow Object Detection on iOS <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uXMgLIlXoE&amp;index=17&amp;list=PLIivdWyY5sqJxnwJhe3etaK7utrBiPBQ2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> youtube</a></li> <li>Optimizing your Cloud Storage performance: Google Cloud Performance Atlas <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/optimizing-your-Cloud-Storage-performance-Google-Cloud-Performance-Atlas.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> <li>Introducing GCP’s new interactive CLI <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-GCPs-new-interactive-CLI.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/alpha/interactive" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a> </li> </ul> Interview <ul> <li>OpenCensus <a href="https://opencensus.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a> <a href="https://opencensus.io/docs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>Github Organisation <a href="https://github.com/census-instrumentation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">github</a></li> <li>How Google uses Census internally <a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/03/how-google-uses-opencensus-internally.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> <li>The value of OpenCensus <a href="http://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/03/the-value-of-opencensus.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> <li>Tracing <ul> <li>Zipkin <a href="https://zipkin.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> <li>Stackdriver <a href="https://cloud.google.com/trace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>jaeger <a href="https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">github</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Metrics <ul> <li>Stackdriver <a href="https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>Prometheus <a href="https://prometheus.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Google Summer of Code <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5240153879085056/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> site</a></li> </ul> <a href="https://opencensus.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> OpenCensus Question of the week I heard there are abilities to natively extend Kubernetes - what does that mean, and also how do I do that? <ul> <li>Custom Resource Definitions <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/api-extension/custom-resources/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> reference</a> <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/extend-api-custom-resource-definitions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> guide</a></li> <li>Sample Controller <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/sample-controller" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">github</a></li> <li>TGIK Custom Controller video series <a href="https://github.com/jbeda/tgik-controller" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">github</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xo_ghCIOSY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">youtube</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWkK-zsFtlU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">youtube</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqhKCiGsf1Y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">youtube</a></li> <li>An Introduction to Extending Kubernetes with CustomResourceDefinitions <a href="https://blog.heptio.com/an-introduction-to-extending-kubernetes-with-customresourcedefinitions-76deb675b27a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ianlewis/memcached-operator" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">memcached-operator</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/coreos/etcd-operator" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">etcd-operator</a></li> </ul> Where can you find us next? Mark will be at the <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Game Developer’s Conference | GDC</a> in March. You can find him via the Google at GDC 2108 <a href="https://events.withgoogle.com/google-gdc-2018/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">site</a>.

OpenCensus with Morgan McLean and JBD

Sharat Shroff and Morgan McLean, Product Managers at Google Cloud, cover with your cohosts Francesc and Mark some of the Stackdriver tools at your disposal when you’re investigating an issue on your application. About Sharat Sharat is a product manager working on developer infrastructure for Google Cloud. He works on application monitoring and diagnostics. About Morgan Morgan is the product manager for Stackdriver Trace, and has spent much of his career working on web services and web frameworks prior to his recent arrival at Google. Morgan works out of the Kirkland, Washington office, and enjoys mountain biking and hiking in his free time. Cool thing of the week  Adventures in SRE-land: Welcome to Google Mission Control  blog post Inside Google’s Cloud solutions with Miles Ward | The Apps Show YouTube  Interview  Stackdriver docs Stackdriver Error Reporting docs Stackdriver Trace docs Stackdriver Debugger docs Stackdriver Logging docs Cloud Source Repositories docs Installing the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent (for GCE and AWS) docs Stackdriver Trace Analysis Reports docs GCPNext: Spend Less Time Diagnosing And More Time Developing YouTube   Question of the week What are all the ways you can set environment variables?  App Engine Environment Variables Go, Python, Java, and PHP Kubernetes ConfigMap docs Kubernetes Secrets user guide Storing and Retrieving Instance Metadata  docs 

<a href="https://twitter.com/sharats" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sharat Shroff</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/morganmclean" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Morgan McLean</a>, Product Managers at Google Cloud, cover with your cohosts <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Francesc</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/neurotic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark</a> some of the <a href="https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stackdriver</a> tools at your disposal when you’re investigating an issue on your application. About Sharat <a href="https://twitter.com/sharats" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sharat</a> is a product manager working on developer infrastructure for Google Cloud. He works on application monitoring and diagnostics. About Morgan <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/morganmclean" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Morgan</a> is the product manager for <a href="https://cloud.google.com/trace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stackdriver Trace</a>, and has spent much of his career working on web services and web frameworks prior to his recent arrival at Google. Morgan works out of the Kirkland, Washington office, and enjoys mountain biking and hiking in his free time. Cool thing of the week <ul> <li>Adventures in SRE-land: Welcome to Google Mission Control <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/adventures-in-SRE-land-welcome-to-Google-Mission-Control.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> blog post</a></li> <li>Inside Google’s Cloud solutions with <a href="https://twitter.com/milesward" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Miles Ward</a> | The Apps Show <a href="https://youtu.be/xVu_bDlE3N8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li> </ul> Interview <ul> <li>Stackdriver <a href="https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>Stackdriver Error Reporting <a href="https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>Stackdriver Trace <a href="https://cloud.google.com/trace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>Stackdriver Debugger <a href="https://cloud.google.com/debugger/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>Stackdriver Logging <a href="https://cloud.google.com/logging/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>Cloud Source Repositories <a href="https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>Installing the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent (for GCE and AWS) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/install-agent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>Stackdriver Trace Analysis Reports <a href="https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/analysis-reports" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>GCPNext: Spend Less Time Diagnosing And More Time Developing <a href="https://youtu.be/AUW4ZEhhk_w" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a></li> </ul> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Question of the week What are all the ways you can set environment variables? <ul> <li>App Engine Environment Variables <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/go/config/appref" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Go</a>, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appref" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Python</a>, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/appref" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Java</a>, and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/php/config/appref" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PHP</a></li> <li>Kubernetes ConfigMap <a href="http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/configmap/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">docs</a></li> <li>Kubernetes Secrets <a href="http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/secrets/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">user guide</a></li> <li>Storing and Retrieving Instance Metadata <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> docs</a></li> </ul>