Brad Abrams Builds Platforms for Google
Carl and Richard talk to Brad Abrams late of Microsoft, now at Google. Recently moved to Palo Alto, Brad talks about Google+, Google's social networking application for sharing thoughts, pictures and video. Brad has just joined the team to start developing API for developers to work with Google+. The conversation moves onto Google's Web Toolkit and App Engine, products Brad spent his first year at Google on. Brad digs into his thinking around building platforms, what it really means to compile, and his experiences in different company cultures.
Guests:
Brad Abrams
Brad Abrams is Group Product Manager on the Google Cloud Platform team where he is responsible for the developer experiences on the platform. Software development is one of the last areas of modern life not deeply enhanced by the cloud - Brad’s mission is to bring the power, scale and availability of the modern cloud to the art of software development.
Brad has been at Google since 2011 and has led platform efforts in Chrome, Google+ and now on the Cloud Platform team. Prior to Google, Brad lead many developer efforts at Microsoft on products including the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Silverlight and Visual Studio. Brad published several books include the bestselling Framework Design Guidelines. Brad has spoken at developer conferences around the world including nearly every major Microsoft developer event during his tenure and many Google IO and GCP LIve events since he joined.
Links:
- Google+ https://plus.google.com/
- Web Toolkit http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
- App Engine http://code.google.com/appengine/
- V8 JavaScript Engine http://code.google.com/p/v8/
- SPDY http://dev.chromium.org/spdy
- Brad Abrams on Google+ http://bradabrams.com/+
- Google+ Developer Projects https://services.google.com/fb/forms/plusdevelopers/