Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p>You might have heard about <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/12/google-partners-with-improbable-to.html"> Improbable teaming up with Google Cloud</a>, and you might want to know more about it. Well, this episode is for you!</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/rjfwhite">Rob Whitehead</a>, CTO and co-founder of Improbable, joins the podcast to explain to your co-hosts, <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a>, everything there is to know about Improbable, SpatialOS, and their relationship to Google Cloud Platform.</p> <h5 id="about-rob">About Rob</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/rjfwhite">Rob Whitehead</a> co-founded <a href="https://improbable.io/">Improbable</a> in the summer of 2012 with a fellow Cambridge classmate, with the goal of creating a technology to digitally recreate and fully simulate the real and virtual worlds using the massive computational power of the cloud.</p> <p>In a previous life, he was an indie iOS developer, and an arms dealer in Second Life!</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Endpoints now generally available: a fast, scalable API gateway <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/Google-Cloud-Endpoints-now-GA-a-fast-scalable-API-gateway.html"> blog post</a></li> <li>Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/introducing-Cloud-Spanner-a-global-database-service-for-mission-critical-applications.html"> blog post</a></li> <li>Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/inside-Cloud-Spanner-and-the-CAP-Theorem.html"> white paper</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Google partners with Improbable to support next generation of video games <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/12/google-partners-with-improbable-to.html"> blog post</a>.</li> <li>Improbable <a href="https://improbable.io/">improbable.io</a></li> <li>SpatialOS <a href="https://spatialos.improbable.io/">docs</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/improbable-screenshot.png" style="width: 600px;" /> <p style="font-size: 0.8em;">A collision of two fully customized ships flying through the procedurally generated and persistent universe of Worlds Adrift, a game developed on SpatialOS. Read about the game’s <a href="https://spatialos.improbable.io/games/worlds-adrift-prototype-by-bossa-studios"> origin story</a> and technical details of <a href="https://www.worldsadrift.com/blog/ships-physics/">its physics</a>.</p> </div> <ul> <li>Join the SpatialOS Games Alpha <a href="https://spatialos.improbable.io/get-spatialos">here</a></li> <li>Running CoreOS Container Linux on Google Compute Engine <a href="https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/booting-on-google-compute-engine.html"> CoreOS docs</a></li> <li>SpatialOS also use <a href="http://www.grpc.io/">gRPC</a> and <a href="https://bazel.build/">Bazel</a>.</li> <li>What we found when we simulated the backbone of the entire Internet on SpatialOS <a href="https://improbable.io/2016/03/24/what-we-found-when-we-simulated-the-backbone-of-the-entire-internet-on-spatialos"> blog post</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>How can I resize a persistent disk?</p> <ul> <li>Adding or Resizing Persistent Disks <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk">docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="were-will-we-be">Were will we be?</h5> <p>Mark will be at <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/">GDC</a> and afterwards he’ll be speaking at <a href="https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/schedule#target=building-massive-online-worlds-with-spatialos-and-google-cloud-platform-0cb0ec52-b735-4403-9fc5-071f1759dd1c"> Cloud NEXT</a>, both in San Francisco.</p> <p>Francesc will speak tomorrow at the Go 1.8 <a href="https://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/236673793/">release party</a> in San Francisco. A bit later he’ll also be at <a href="http://www.gophercon.in">Gophercon India</a>.</p>
