Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p>This week, <a href="https://twitter.com/tpryan">Terry Ryan</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/bshaffer">Brent Shaffer</a> join <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and guest host <a href="https://twitter.com/broady">Chris Broadfoot</a> to talk all about PHP on Google Cloud Platform</p> <h5 id="about-terry">About Terry</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/tpryan">Terry Ryan</a> is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform team. He has 15 years of experience working with the web - both front end and back. He is passionate about web standards and wants to bring web developers to the Google Cloud Platform. Before Google, he worked for Adobe and the Wharton School of Business.</p> <p>He also wrote Driving Technical Change for Pragmatic Bookshelf, a book that arms technology professionals with the tools to convince reluctant co-workers to adopt new tools and technology.</p> <h5 id="about-brent">About Brent</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/bshaffer">Brent Shaffer</a> is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google who is involved primarily in the Open Source world of PHP and Ruby. His most notable Open Source contribution is the <a href="http://github.com/bshaffer/oauth2-server-php">OAuth2 server for PHP</a>, and his favorite OpenSource project is the Symfony framework. Outside of work, he loves mountaineering and playing folk music <a href="http://morehazards.com/">in a band</a>.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Preemptible VMs now up to 33% cheaper <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/Preemptible-VMs-now-up-to-33-percent-cheaper.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>PHP on Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://cloud.google.com/php/">docs</a></li> <li>PHP App Engine Getting Started <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/php/getting-started/creating-guestbook"> docs</a></li> <li>Run PHP on Compute Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/php/tutorials/bookshelf-on-compute-engine"> docs</a></li> <li>Create a Guestbook with Redis and PHP on Container Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/tutorials/guestbook"> docs</a></li> <li>Quick Start WordPress for Google App Engine <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.github.io/appengine-php-wordpress-starter-project/"> github</a></li> <li>How to Run Symfony Hello World on App Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/php/symfony-hello-world">docs</a> <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-symfony-starter-project"> github</a></li> <li>Docker images for running PHP applications on the App Engine Flexible Runtime <a href="https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/php-docker">github</a></li> <li>Cloud Launcher LAMP Stack <a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/bitnami-launchpad/lampstack"> launcher</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>How do I load balance WebSocket connection with a Google Cloud Load Balancer?</p> <ul> <li>Setting Up HTTP(S) Load Balancing <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/">docs</a></li> <li>Setting Up Network Load Balancing <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/network/">docs</a></li> <li>Setting Up SSL proxy for Google Cloud Load Balancing <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/tcp-ssl/">docs</a></li> <li>When should I use HTTPS load balancing instead of SSL proxy load balancing? <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/tcp-ssl/#when_should_i_use_https_load_balancing_instead_of_ssl_proxy_load_balancing"> faq</a></li> </ul>
