Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p>Virtual Machines, that old technology that powers the cloud! Today <a href="https://twitter.com/scottjvw">Scott Van Woudenberg</a> tells your cohosts <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/neurotic">Mark</a> about virtual machines and you can use them with Google Cloud Platform.</p> <h5 id="about-scott">About Scott</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/scottjvw">Scott Van Woudenberg</a> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Kubernetes class on Udacity <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/up-your-DevOps-chops-with-this-online-Kubernetes-class.html"> post</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interviews">Interviews</h5> <ul> <li>Google Compute Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute">docs</a></li> <li>Virtual Machine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine">wikipedia</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Spin: Stopping time with the power of the Cloud - Google I/O 2016 <a href="https://youtu.be/f4N9131USUY">video</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Functions <a href="https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/">docs</a></li> <li>Compute Engine Pricing <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing">docs</a></li> <li>Custom Machine Types <a href="https://cloud.google.com/custom-machine-types/">docs</a></li> <li>Resize a Persistent Disk <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk#resize_pd"> docs</a></li> <li>Autoresizing Persistent Disks in Compute Engine <a href="http://terrenceryan.com/blog/index.php/autoresizing-persistent-disks-in-compute-engine/"> blog</a></li> <li>Google Compute Engine uses Live Migration technology to service infrastructure without application downtime <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/03/Google-Compute-Engine-uses-Live-Migration-technology-to-service-infrastructure-without-application-downtime.html"> post</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Platform Locations <a href="https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/">map</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Creating Datastore Backups <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/console/datastore-backing-up-restoring#backup_and_restore_considerations"> docs</a></li> <li>Scheduled Backups <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/articles/scheduled_backups#introduction"> docs</a></li> <li>Creating a Cloud Datastore backup in BigQuery <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/loading-data-cloud-datastore#backup"> docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <ul> <li>Mark will then be at <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/ChangeTheGameSummit-SF_Registration.html"> Change the Game SF</a> on Friday!</li> <li>Francesc will be riding the <a href="http://www.aidslifecycle.org/">AIDS/Lifecycle</a> and if you want you can <a href="http://campoy.cat/alc">donate</a>.</li> </ul>
