❯ Guillaume Laforge

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My favorite Cloud Next sessions

The schedule for Google Cloud Next was unveiled this week, and there’s lots of interesting sessions to attend. With the many parallel tracks, it’s difficult to make a choice, but I wanted to highlight some of the talks I’d like to watch! The Google Cloud Platform is a pretty rich one, with many options for your compute needs. How do you choose which one is best for your use case? Brian Dorsey covers this in detail in this session: Read more...

Deploy a Ratpack App on Google App Engine Flex

The purpose of this article is to deploy a Ratpack web application on Google App Engine Flex. For my demos at conferences, I often use frameworks like Ratpack, Grails or Gaelyk, which are based on the Apache Groovy programming language. In a previous article, I already used Ratpack, but on a slightly more complex use case, but this time, I want to share a quick Ratpack hello world, and deploy it on Flex. Read more...

New Features in the Google Cloud Natural Language Api Thanks to Your Feedback

The GA release of Cloud Natural Language API is easier to use, better at recognizing language nuances and adds additional support for Spanish and Japanese Earlier in November, we announced general availability for the Cloud Natural Language API and highlighted the key new improvements. This launch included many additions to the API like expanded entity recognition, granular sentiment analysis with expanded language support, improved syntax analysis with additional morphologies and more. Read more...

A poor-man assistant with speech recognition and natural language processing

All sorts of voice-powered assistants are available today, and chat bots are the new black! In order to illustrate how such tools are made, I decided to create my own little basic conference assistant, using Google’s Cloud Speech API and Cloud Natural Language API. This is a demo I actually created for the Devoxx 2016 keynote, when Stephan Janssen invited me on stage to speak about Machine Learning. And to make this demo more fun, I implemented it with a shell script, some curl calls, plus some other handy command-line tools. Read more...

Machine intelligence at Google scale, vision / speech APIs, Tensorflow, and Cloud Machine Learning

With my colleague Martin Görner, at the Devoxx conference in Belgium last month, we gave a talk on Machine Learning, on the various APIs provided by Google Cloud, the TensorFlow Machine Learning Open Source project, the Cloud ML service. I didn’t get a chance to publish the slides, so it’s time I fix that! Machine Intelligence at Google Scale: Vision/Speech API, TensorFlow and Cloud Machine Learning The biggest challenge of Deep Learning technology is the scalability. Read more...

Analyzing half a million Gradle build files

Gradle is becoming the build automation solution of choice among developers, in particular in the Java ecosystem. With the Github archive published as a Google BigQuery dataset, it’s possible to analyze those build files, and see if we can learn something interesting about them! This week, I was at the G3 Summit conference, and presented about this topic: I covered the Apache Groovy language, as per my previous article, but I expanded my queries to also look at Grails applications, and Gradle build files. Read more...

Binge streaming web APIs with Ratpack, Cloud Ednpoints, App Engine Flex and Streamdata.io

At Devoxx last week, I had the chance to do a joint tools-in-action with my talented friend Audrey Neveu, titled Binge streaming you Web API: In a fast-paced fashion, to keep you awake after long University sessions, Audrey and Guillaume will set you up to create a Web API using Google Cloud Endpoints, and stream the content of the API in real-time with Streamdata.io. After a quick introduction to both technologies, they’ll build together both the backend and the front-end to interact live with the audience, through the Web or via a mobile app. Read more...

Latest features of Google Cloud Platform

When you’re following a project, a company, a platform, you’re looking for the latest news, about the latest feature announcement, to take advantage of what’s coming up. Last time, I blogged about the gcloud command line tool, which nicely shows you the latest updates since the last time you updated its components. If you go to the Google Cloud Platform website, you’ll see dedicated release notes pages for pretty much all products. Read more...

Quick intro to Google Cloud Platform for the Paris Ansible meetup

Tonight, Google France was hosting the Paris Ansible meetup, and I had the chance to play the Master of Ceremony, by introducing the speakers for the evening, as well as give a brief introduction to the Google Cloud Platform, as well as outlining where Ansible users and DevOps engineers might be interested in learning more. Here’s my quick overview of the Google Cloud Platform:

Scaling a Swagger-based web API on Google Cloud Endpoints

I had the pleasure of presenting at the Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2016 in Stockholm this week. I enjoyed the conference a lot, with great speakers and content, flawless organization, and nice interactions with the audience. For the last keynote of the conference, I had the chance to present about Google Cloud Endpoints, Google’s take on API management. I worked on a little “pancake”-powered demo, deploying a Ratpack application, in a Docker container, on Google Container Engine. Read more...