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?

Virtual Machines with Scott Van Woudenberg