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New developer YouTube Series: “Build Out”

42 points by adenadel 9y ago

apeace 9y ago
Thinly veiled ad for Google Cloud products. The blog describes this as "a new YouTube series where real engineers face-off building fake products". But they do not build anything. They just describe the architecture. I would keep watching if there were actual coding, or even if someone spent two days prototyping and simply described some of the gotchas they ran into along the way.
- itronitron 9y ago
  Yeah, "build out" is a trigger phrase for me so I could never watch this anyway.
- throwaway2016a 9y ago
  > Thinly veiled ad for Google Cloud products. I skipped to the middle and this is my thought exactly. I skipped straight into one of the guys rattling off why chose to use three different completely unnecessary in this case Google cloud products by listing off the benefits of them... ugh. Could be titled: "how to ridiculously over-engineer something using every Google cloud feature you can cram into one project" Too bad, I had my hopes up.
- magicalist 9y ago
  > Thinly veiled ad for Google Cloud products Uh... > Each month we will present competing architectures to help show how Google's developer products can be combined to solve challenging problems for your users. Each solution incorporates a wide range of technologies, including Google Cloud, Android, Firebase, and Tensorflow I think we have different definitions of "veiled", thinly or not. This is clearly a "development with Google products" video series.
siliconc0w 9y ago
It'd be cool if they, you know, built something instead of theory crafting convoluted architectures. Also it's kinda a reverse ad when you need to hack around limitations of your product when trying to sell it. Oh, app engine 'standard' vs 'flex' - or 'regular' vs 'cloud' APIs which is a distinction your customers shouldn't have to care about.
zalmoxes 9y ago
Francesc Campoy’s Just for Func series is much better https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=420s&v=mTd3hHUy9OU https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=420s&v=mTd3hHUy9OU Also by a Google engineer and using Google Cloud products, but it’s actually a lot of fun to watch.
- greyskull 9y ago
  Thanks for this. I poked through his videos and I agree with your sentiment.
ireflect 9y ago
First we find out the "Arbitrary requirement" of this episode is: Google cloud tasks API. Then: Most DIY CNC arms are controlled by a Raspberry Pi, but for a smart garden, we need something that has easier interfaces to Internet connectivity and sensors, so I'd like to add an Android Things Hub. What? This is an ad for Google
- ktta 9y ago
  I don't think they are hiding it either https://youtu.be/8uTcwgWhnb8?t=29s https://youtu.be/8uTcwgWhnb8?t=29s

42 points by adenadel 9y ago

Thinly veiled ad for Google Cloud products. The blog describes this as "a new YouTube series where real engineers face-off building fake products". But they do not build anything. They just describe the architecture. I would keep watching if there were actual coding, or even if someone spent two days prototyping and simply described some of the gotchas they ran into along the way.

itronitron 9y ago
Yeah, "build out" is a trigger phrase for me so I could never watch this anyway.
throwaway2016a 9y ago
> Thinly veiled ad for Google Cloud products. I skipped to the middle and this is my thought exactly. I skipped straight into one of the guys rattling off why chose to use three different completely unnecessary in this case Google cloud products by listing off the benefits of them... ugh. Could be titled: "how to ridiculously over-engineer something using every Google cloud feature you can cram into one project" Too bad, I had my hopes up.
magicalist 9y ago
> Thinly veiled ad for Google Cloud products Uh... > Each month we will present competing architectures to help show how Google's developer products can be combined to solve challenging problems for your users. Each solution incorporates a wide range of technologies, including Google Cloud, Android, Firebase, and Tensorflow I think we have different definitions of "veiled", thinly or not. This is clearly a "development with Google products" video series.

siliconc0w 9y ago

It'd be cool if they, you know, built something instead of theory crafting convoluted architectures. Also it's kinda a reverse ad when you need to hack around limitations of your product when trying to sell it. Oh, app engine 'standard' vs 'flex' - or 'regular' vs 'cloud' APIs which is a distinction your customers shouldn't have to care about.

zalmoxes 9y ago

Francesc Campoy’s Just for Func series is much better https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=420s&v=mTd3hHUy9OU https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=420s&v=mTd3hHUy9OU Also by a Google engineer and using Google Cloud products, but it’s actually a lot of fun to watch.

greyskull 9y ago
Thanks for this. I poked through his videos and I agree with your sentiment.

ireflect 9y ago

First we find out the "Arbitrary requirement" of this episode is: Google cloud tasks API. Then: Most DIY CNC arms are controlled by a Raspberry Pi, but for a smart garden, we need something that has easier interfaces to Internet connectivity and sensors, so I'd like to add an Android Things Hub. What? This is an ad for Google

ktta 9y ago
I don't think they are hiding it either https://youtu.be/8uTcwgWhnb8?t=29s https://youtu.be/8uTcwgWhnb8?t=29s