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

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Node.js with Justin Beckwith