How to contribute to Google projects as your first professional experience
summary
A young HPC/Cloud consultant describes migrating a Google Cloud–based HPC cluster from a three‑year‑old fork of slurm-gcp to Google’s Cluster Toolkit so the client could use new GCP features and improve maintainability. The talk covers understanding complex legacy code, learning how to contribute upstream to Google’s Cluster Toolkit, and collaborating with Google teams to make open‑source contributions early in a professional career.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24HPC on GCP context
- 4:13Migration to Cluster Tool Kit
- 6:20First contributions
- 7:42Contribution process
- 9:51Lessons learned
- 11:15Conclusion
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