Posted by Alex Barrett, Editor, Google Cloud Platform Blog



Ah, summer . . .the time for sitting on the beach, kicking back and . . . learning about Google Cloud Platform. Our developer advocates never rest, and will be traveling to the four corners of the earth to teach you about their favorite GCP features. Here are a few highlights for the coming month:



ContainerCon, Tokyo, Japan

Jul 12, 2016 - Jul 14, 2016

In the Far East? Ian Lewis will deliver a talk, “Building and Deploying Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes” and Google open source advocate Marc Merlin talks about “How Google Uses and Contributes to Open Source.” To register and find out more, visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/containercon-japan/



EuroPython 2016 Bilbao, Spain

Jul 16, 2016 - Jul 23, 2016

Want to learn about deep learning from deep inside of Basque country? Ian Lewis discusses TensorFlow, an open-source machine learning framework, how to use it with Python, and how it compares to other Python ML libraries such as Theano and Chainer. To register, visit

https://ep2016.europython.eu/en/.



NodeSummit San Francisco, USA

Jul 26, 2016 - Jul 28, 2016

Back stateside, Sandeep Dinesh delivers his talk on “Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes and gRPC.” Visit http://nodesummit.com/ for a full schedule and to register. (And if you can’t make it to San Francisco, you can also catch Sandeep’s talk on YouTube.)