Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Fresh off the press from Google I/O 2016, Francesc

Virtual Machines, that old technology that powers the cloud! Today Scott Van Woudenberg tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark about virtual machines and you can use them with Google Cloud Platform.

Scott Van Woudenberg spent sixteen years as a software engineer and engineering lead/manager before moving over to product management. He joined Google in 2012 as a Product Manager on Google Compute Engine, mere weeks before its public alpha launch at I/O.

He's remained a PM on GCE, helping to guide and build the service into a GA product which has seen exponential growth every year since going public.

• Kubernetes class on Udacity post

• Google Compute Engine docs
• Virtual Machine wikipedia
• Google Cloud Spin: Stopping time with the power of the Cloud - Google I/O 2016 video
• Google Cloud Functions docs
• Compute Engine Pricing docs
• Custom Machine Types docs
• Resize a Persistent Disk docs
• Autoresizing Persistent Disks in Compute Engine blog
• Google Compute Engine uses Live Migration technology to service infrastructure without application downtime post
• Google Cloud Platform Locations map

• Creating Datastore Backups docs
• Scheduled Backups docs
• Creating a Cloud Datastore backup in BigQuery docs

• Mark will then be at Change the Game SF on Friday!
• Francesc will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle and if you want you can donate.

Virtual Machines, that old technology that powers the cloud!

John Feminella, Technical Advisor at Pivotal, tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark about unikernels: what they are, how they relate to containers, and why they are all the hype in cloud computing.

John Feminella is an avid technologist, occasional public speaker, and curiosity advocate. He serves as an advisor to Pivotal, where he works on helping enterprises transform the way they write, operate, and deploy software. He's also the cofounder of a tiny analytics monitoring and reporting startup named UpHex.

He works with unikernels experimentally and is very interested in their application to platforms of the future.

John lives in Charlottesville, VA and likes meta-jokes, milkshakes, and referring to himself in the third person in speaker bios.

• Firebase expands to become a unified app platform blog
• Open source demos from Instrument: Query It! and Emotobooth
• Google Cloud I/O talks playlist
• Firebase I/O talks playlist

• container.camp SF: Unikernels: Practical Advice for Juggling Chainsaws video
• Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System ACM
• http://unikernel.org
• Amir Chaudhry talk at Craft Conf notes
• Unikernel on Google Compute Engine: Running an OSv Unikernel Tomcat Server medium
• MirageOS, a unikernel for OCaml
• RumpRun supports other languages like C, C++, Go, Javascript, Python, etc.
• Unikernels are unfit for production blog

• How can I generate Google Cloud Deployment Manager files from my current architecture? GitHub

• Mark will then be at Change the Game SF
• Francesc will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle and if you want you can donate.

John Feminella, Technical Advisor at Pivotal, tells

Gustavo Ambrozio, from Pocket Gems, tells us about how they implemented and how they run War Dragons with the power of Google Cloud Platform.

Learn how an incredibly popular mobile game can scale and provide social features, analytics, while keeping high throughput that enables low latency.

Gustavo is a software engineer from Brazil with over 20 years experience, almost 8 years of iOS experience (basically since the first iOS SDK was released) and founder of CodeCrop Software. Gustavo has worked on everything from server software, corporate systems and now is having fun living in sunny California developing mobile games for Pocket Gems.

• How to get your ASP.NET app up on Google Cloud the easy way blog post

• War Dragons is a game by PocketGems
• Google App Engine docs
• Scaling mobile games to a global audience using App Engine and Cloud Datastore GCPNext video
• Google Cloud Datastore docs
• Google Cloud Memcache docs
• Splitting Traffic over App Engine versions docs
• Google Task Queue Overview docs

• Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Go Web Apps (But were afraid to ask) by Mark Bates video
• A Survey of 5 Go Web Frameworks blog post

• We are both be speaking at Google I/O next week!
• Mark will then be at Change the Game SF
• Francesc will speak at goto; Chicago next week and then will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle and if you want you can donate.

Gustavo Ambrozio, from Pocket Gems, tells us about how they implemented and how they

Learn how an incredibly popular mobile game can scale and provide social features,

Join us today for a conversation with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot from the Go team. They will discuss with your hosts Francesc Campoy and Mark Mandel why Go is so successful for all the things cloud and how you can use it with Google Cloud Platform.

Andrew has worked on Go at Google since almost the beginning, and has written tons of blog posts and talks on Go. He spends most of his time making Go easier to use.

Chris joined the Go and Cloud teams last year to improve the experience of writing Go applications for Google Cloud Platform. Before that, he worked at Google on the Maps APIs for around five years.

• EVE Fanfest 2016 - Kubernetes and Google Cloud video

• The Go programming language web
• Go on Google App Engine docs
• Google Santa Tracker web
• Tweak The Turkey with a Go powered Doodle doodle
• gofmt command docs
• goimports command docs
• Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey YouTube
• Bookshelf tutorial for Go on App Engine tutorial
• The Go Tour
• Go Samples repo

• Google Cloud Dataflow docs
• Google BigQuery docs
• MapReduce wikipedia

• We'll both be speaking at Google I/O next week!
• Mark will then be at Change the Game SF
• Francesc will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle and if you want you can donate.

The Go gopher, by Renee French

Join us today for a conversation with Andrew Gerrand

Today our guest star host, Brian Dorsey, and Mark interview Terrance Shepherd about his role as Technical Solutions Engineer working for Google Cloud Platform's Support Team.

Terrance is a Technical Solutions Engineer working for Google Cloud Platform's Support Team. He has been working to help customers from single person developers to Enterprises with 100's of Developers for the last 16 months. Terrance also leads the Cloud Platform Support new product review process, where the Support team has input on usability, reliability and supportability of few product or features released. All new features and product received the Support Team's approval before available to customers.

• You can now configure Pub Sub with Deployment Manager docs
• ISO and privacy certifications blog post
• More on security at cloud.google.com/security

• Google Cloud Platform Support: cloud.google.com/support
• Google Cloud SQL docs
• Google Cloud SQL General Log tips docs

How can I connect my application running on Google Cloud Platform to other Google services like Google Docs?

• Google Apps APIs docs
• Google API Explorer console