In the twentieth episode of this podcast, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Justin Beckwith, a Product Manager at Google Cloud Platform, about how Node.js and the cloud work together.
About Justin
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.
He blogs at jbeckwith.com and twitters as @justinbeckwith.
Cool thing of the week
- Google Cloud Datastore simplifies pricing, cuts cost dramatically for most use-cases blog post
- Google Cloud Datastore gets faster cross-platform API blog post
Interview
- Node.js on Google Cloud docs
- Node.js on Google App Engine goes beta blog post
- The Node.js Docker image used by Google App Engine Managed VMs repo
- Google Cloud Client Library for Node.js repo and npm
- Experimental Node.js support for Google Cloud Trace repo
- Cloud Debug support for Node.js applications repo
- Building Node.js applications on Google Cloud Platform video
- Google's officially supported Node.js client library for accessing Google APIs repo
- Run Parse-server on Google Cloud Platform docs
- NodeSource Partners with Google to Offer N|Solid as Enterprise Node.js Platform on Google Cloud Platform blog post
- Google Cloud Platform joins the Node.js foundation blog post
Question of the week
Michael McKenzie asks about Bigtable and how to get started.
- Research Paper on Bigtable pdf
- Bigtable samples on github
- Bigtable Quickstart on github
cbt tool to interact with Cloud Bigtable godoc
