Cloud Functions with Bret McGowen

This week, Mark and Francesc ask all the questions that you’ve ever had
about Cloud Functions to Bret McGowen.

About Bret McGowen

Bret is on the Google Cloud Platform team at Google, focusing on
developer-oriented products like Google Cloud Functions, App Engine,
Firebase, machine learning APIs, and more.
He’s currently an aspiring Node.js developer. Prior to Google, Bret worked
in the cloud industry at Rackspace as a software engineer building the
RackConnect hybrid hosting product. Before that, he led engineering teams
at e-commerce, non-profits and tried his hand at creating two startups.

He’s often on the running trail, volleyball court or kickball field.
Bret earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Texas A&M University.

Cool things of the week

Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy: Protect application access on the cloud blog
Automating project creation with Google Cloud Deployment Manager blog

Interview

Google Cloud Functions and docs
Firebase Functions docs
ngrok
ServerlessConf homepage
Firebase and Google Cloud Functions: Serverless Peanut Butter and Jelly YouTube

Question of the week

How can I notify a series of listeners when an object in Cloud Storage has changed?

Object Change Notification docs
Google Cloud Storage introduces Cloud Pub/Sub notifications announcement

Where can you find us next?

Mark is currently at East Coast Games Conference and Vector.
He’s also going to be hosting the Playcrafting + Extra Life Game Jame & Game Fest, raising
money for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. Finally he’ll be in Sweden for Nordic Games Conference as well.

Francesc will be presenting at the New York Google Developer Group for a Serverless event!
Francesc has also released a new Just for Func episode, covering the implementation of the Context package!