Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p>In the twentieth episode of this podcast, your hosts <a href="http://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/neurotic">Mark</a> interview <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbeckwith">Justin Beckwith</a>, a Product Manager at Google Cloud Platform, about how Node.js and the cloud work together.</p> <h5 id="about-justin">About Justin</h5> <p>Justin is a Product Manager, web developer, and geek dad working on the developer experience for Google App Engine. He writes code, speaks at events, and rocks out on the ukulele. Before joining Google, he filled various developer and architect roles with startups, healthcare companies, and universities.</p> <p>He blogs at <a href="http://jbeckwith.com">jbeckwith.com</a> and twitters as <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbeckwith">@justinbeckwith</a>.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Datastore simplifies pricing, cuts cost dramatically for most use-cases <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/Google-Cloud-Datastore-simplifies-pricing-cuts-cost-dramatically-for-most-use-cases.html"> blog post</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Datastore gets faster cross-platform API <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/Google-Cloud-Datastore-gets-faster-cross-platform-API.html"> blog post</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Node.js on Google Cloud <a href="https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/">docs</a></li> <li>Node.js on Google App Engine goes beta <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/Node.js-on-Google-App-Engine-goes-beta.html"> blog post</a></li> <li>The Node.js Docker image used by Google App Engine Managed VMs <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docker">repo</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Client Library for Node.js <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-node">repo</a> and <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/gcloud">npm</a></li> <li>Experimental Node.js support for Google Cloud Trace <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-trace-nodejs">repo</a></li> <li>Cloud Debug support for Node.js applications <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-debug-nodejs">repo</a></li> <li>Building Node.js applications on Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsznS0QxtYI">video</a></li> <li>Google’s officially supported Node.js client library for accessing Google APIs <a href="https://github.com/google/google-api-nodejs-client">repo</a></li> <li>Run Parse-server on Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/resources/frameworks/parse-server"> docs</a></li> <li>NodeSource Partners with Google to Offer N|Solid as Enterprise Node.js Platform on Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://nodesource.com/blog/nodesource-partners-with-google/">blog post</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Platform joins the Node.js foundation <a href="https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/welcome-google/">blog post</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>Michael McKenzie asks about Bigtable and how to get started.</p> <ul> <li>Research Paper on Bigtable <a href="http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf"> pdf</a></li> <li>Bigtable samples on <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-bigtable-examples">github</a></li> <li>Bigtable Quickstart on <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-bigtable-examples/tree/master/quickstart"> github</a></li> <li><code>cbt</code> tool to interact with Cloud Bigtable <a href="https://godoc.org/google.golang.org/cloud/bigtable/cmd/cbt">godoc</a></li> </ul>
