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.

About Scott

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.

Cool thing of the week

• Kubernetes class on Udacity post

Interviews

• 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

Question of the week

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

Where can you find us next?

• 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.