Virtual Machines, that old technology that powers the cloud!

Today Scott Van Woudenberg (https://twitter.com/scottjvw) tells your cohosts

Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and Mark (https://twitter.com/neurotic) about

virtual machines and you can use them with Google Cloud Platform.

About Scott

Scott Van Woudenberg (https://twitter.com/scottjvw) 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.

Cool thing of the week

* Kubernetes class on Udacity post (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/up-your-DevOps-chops-with-this-online-Kubernetes-class.html)

Interviews

* Google Compute Engine docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute)

* Virtual Machine wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine)

* Google Cloud Spin: Stopping time with the power of the Cloud - Google I/O 2016 video (https://youtu.be/f4N9131USUY)

* Google Cloud Functions docs (https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/)

* Compute Engine Pricing docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing)

* Custom Machine Types docs (https://cloud.google.com/custom-machine-types/)

* Resize a Persistent Disk docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk#resize_pd)

* Autoresizing Persistent Disks in Compute Engine blog (http://terrenceryan.com/blog/index.php/autoresizing-persistent-disks-in-compute-engine/)

* Google Compute Engine uses Live Migration technology to service infrastructure without application downtime post (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/03/Google-Compute-Engine-uses-Live-Migration-technology-to-service-infrastructure-without-application-downtime.html)

* Google Cloud Platform Locations map (https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/)

Question of the week

* Creating Datastore Backups docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/console/datastore-backing-up-restoring#backup_and_restore_considerations)

* Scheduled Backups docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/articles/scheduled_backups#introduction)

* Creating a Cloud Datastore backup in BigQuery docs (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/loading-data-cloud-datastore#backup)

Where can you find us next?

* Mark will then be at Change the Game SF (https://cloudplatformonline.com/ChangeTheGameSummit-SF_Registration.html) on Friday!

* Francesc will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle (http://www.aidslifecycle.org/) and if you want you can donate (http://campoy.cat/alc).

(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/r7zXV-HtUmY)