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Pokemon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic

Published: Jan. 18, 2017, 1:07 a.m.

We\u2019re back! And we\u2019re bringing a seriously cool interview about Pok\xe9mon GO with Edward Wu, Director of Software Engineering at Niantic.

In this interview your co-hosts Francesc and Mark chat with Ed about the whole history of Pok\xe9mon GO, from the inception of Niantic to the amazing success and the scaling challenges they faced.

About Ed

Ed Wu is a Director, Software Engineering at Niantic who leads the engineering team of Pok\xe9mon GO as well as the Niantic Seattle site. Before helping to lead Niantic from its successful spin-out from Google, Dr. Wu was a Staff Software Engineer at Google where he developed machine learning models in ads quality.

He received his PhD from Stanford in Physics in 2009 applying Bayesian parameter estimation models to cosmological data he collected from three visits to Antarctica and the South Pole.

Cool thing of the week
  • How we secure our infrastructure: a white paper blog post
  • Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview docs
  • Google Cloud Platform icons and sample architectural diagrams, for your designing pleasure blog post
  • Solution Icons for Architectural Diagrams link
  • Continuous Deployment to Google Cloud Platform with Drone NYTimes
  • You can read all the source code in:
Interview
  • Pok\xe9mon GO homepage
  • Bringing Pok\xe9mon GO to life on Google Cloud blog post
  • Leveraging the Google Cloud Platform niantic
  • Ingress homepage
  • Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog post
  • \u2018Pok\xe9mon GO\u2019 Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android Forbes

Pok\xe9mon GO logo owned by The Pok\xe9mon Company (from Wikipedia)

Pok\xe9mon GO stack:

  • Java on Container Engine docs
  • Cloud Datastore docs
  • Cloud Bigtable docs
  • (and more)
Question of the week

I have these keys that I want to use for encrypting my data at rest.

  • Managing encryption keys in the cloud: introducing Google Cloud Key Management Service blog post
  • Google Cloud Key Management docs

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