You’ve certainly interacted with webhooks at some point: with a Github commit webhook, for Slack or Dialogflow chatbots, for being notified of Stripe payments, or when you receive an SMS via Twilio. The concept is fairly well known, but there are some roadblocks along the way, whether you implement a webhook handler (the URL being called) or a webhook backend (the service notifying URLs). It’s not necessarily as trivial as it may first seem. Read more...

Last week, I was in Tokyo for the first time, to speak at the Google Cloud Next conference. During the DevDay, I spoke about Google App Engine and its 2nd generation runtimes, and I also presented Cloud Run on how to deploy and run containers in a serverless fashion. It’s been awesome to visit Japan for the first time and get a chance to meet developers there. Here are the slides I presented: Read more...

At DataXDay 2019, last week, I had the chance to present an updated version of my introductory talk on the serverless compute options on Google Cloud Platform. There’s always something new to cover! For instance, if I put my Java Champion hat on, I’d like to mention that there are new runtimes for App Engine standard, like the beta for Java 11, and there’s twice the amount of memory as before. Read more...

Last week at the Google Cloud Next conference, I had the chance to speak about the Java developer’s journey through the “serverless” offering of Google Cloud Platform, with my colleague Vinod Ramachandran (Product Manager on some of our serverless products): Serverless Java in 2019 is going to be ubiquitous in your favorite cloud. Well, it’s actually been 10 years since you could take advantage of Java on Google App Engine. But now you can run your apps on the brand-new Java 11 runtime. Read more...

At GR8Conf Europe last year, I talked about how to take advantage of the Google Cloud machine learning APIs using Apache Groovy. With Groovy, you can call the Vision API that recognises what’s in your pictures, or reads text. You can invoke the Natural Language API to understand the structure of your text. With the Speech-To-Text API, you can get transcriptions of what’s been said in an audio stream, or with Text-To-Spech, you can also generate human-like voices from your own text. Read more...

At Voxxed Days Microservices, in Paris, I talked about the latest development in serverless solutions on Google Cloud Platform, to deploy functions, apps and even containers. I answered an interview on the theme of microservices, and how this maps to the Google cloud products. And the video of my presentation was published on YouTube: Here’s the abstract of the session: Plenty of novelties in the Serverless offering of Google Cloud Platform, whether you’re developing functions, apps or containers. Read more...

In a matter of a few years, Google Cloud Platform has evolved from a very small set of products or APIs to a wealth of close to a hundred of products, services and APIs that developers can take advantage of. This week, at the event Le Meilleur Dev de France, I gave an introduction to the whole platform, focusing on three key axis: compute, storage and machine learning. After an introduction on famous users of GCP, like Snapchat, Spotify or PokemonGo, I also gave a few examples of big French companies as well as French startups who have decided to go to the cloud with Google. Read more...

A coupe weeks ago, I had the chance to talk at Cloud Next 2018, in San Francisco, with my colleague and friend Alexis. We talked about building and deploying microservices with Google App Engine and Cloud Functions. I’ve been a big fan of App Engine since 2009 when Google released the Java flavor, and have been enjoying doing a bit of Node / JavaScript on Cloud Functions since it came in beta. Read more...

Last month in sunny Napa valley, my awesome colleague Seth Vargo and I had the chance to speak at SwampUp, the devops focused conference organized by JFrog. Our talk & demo were focused on the topic of “ChatOps”. But what is ChatOps? Here’s what our abstract said: Heard of ChatOps? It’s a movement in the DevOps community to take advantage of Chatbots. Chatbots centralize the conversation and history of your daily operations including build status, issue management, deployment, and monitoring, so that you access all the information and actions needed at the whim of a chat message in your team communication solution. Read more...

My buddy Wassim and I were back on stage together to talk about chatbots, with Actions on Google and Dialogflow, at DevFest Lille and Best of Web Paris. I’d like to share with you the slides of the presentation (the video has been recorded and will be available at a later time.) You might be interested in those two codelabs to get started on this journey: Build Actions for the Google Assistant - level 1 Build Actions for the Google Assistant - level 2 Here’s the presentation given at DevFest Lille: Read more...