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New developer YouTube Series: “Build Out”

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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.

Yeah, "build out" is a trigger phrase for me so I could never watch this anyway.

> 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.

> 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.

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.

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

I don't think they are hiding it either

https://youtu.be/8uTcwgWhnb8?t=29s

Francesc Campoy’s Just for Func series is much better 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.

Thanks for this. I poked through his videos and I agree with your sentiment.

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