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Running Node.js on
Google Compute Engine
Arun Nagarajan
google.com/+ArunNagarajan
@entaq

2. Intro
Google Cloud Platform
Live demo
Questions
Agenda: May 8th, 2014
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3. 75
years
1957 2003 2013
500
25
years
10
years
(average age of a company
joining the S&P 500)

4. The decreasing cost of storage
enables virtually limitless
storage in the cloud. $600 can
buy enough storage for the
world’s music*
.
(Source: McKinsey Global Institute May 2011)
Computing as a utility is now
available for easy purchase,
provided from massively
efficient data centers.
(Source: Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch, 2008)
The internet allows for a
model of real-time access to
new innovation, information
and applications from a wide
range of devices.
Affordable
capacity
On-demand
computing
Instant
access
Big Trends
*more accurately, one could store 3.6 million music tracks at 3.5 MB each, assuming ~$50/TB HDD storage price. Noted by John Wilkes!

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“People tend to overestimate what can
be done in one year and to
underestimate what can be done in
five or ten years.”
Amara's Law

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Cloud Platform is built on the same
infrastructure that powers Google.
For the past 15 years, Google has been
building out the world’s fastest, most
powerful, highest quality infrastructure
on the planet.

7. Images by Connie Zhou
Wired, 'Google Throws Open Doors To Its Top Secret Data Center', October 2012
Google's Platform
"[Google's] ability to build, organize, and
operate a huge network of servers and
fiber-optic cables with an efficiency and
speed that rocks physics on its heels.
This is what makes Google Google: its
physical network, its thousands of fiber
miles, and those many thousands of servers
that, in aggregate, add up to the mother of
all clouds."
- Wired

8. 72 hours
100 Million Gigabytes
Over 425 Million
1/4 second
Video uploaded to YouTube every minute
Google's "Caffeine" Search index, circa 2010
Number of active Gmail users
How long it takes for Google to respond to a search query
Google and Big Data

9. $2.9B in additional data center investments worldwide
Investing In Our Infrastructure

10. Store data with reliability, redundancy
and consistency
Go from data to meaning
At scale
Fast
Google white papers
Google File System (2003)
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters (2004)
BigTable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data (2006)
Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets (2010)
Machine Translation (2004-2011)
2008
2010
2002
2004
2006
2012
GFS
MapReduce
Big Table
Colossus
Spanner
Dremel
FlumeJava
Pregel
What Did We Learn? To Innovate!

11. Application Runtimes & Services
● Iterate & deploy fast
● Scale to global demand
● Standards compliant
Data Services
● Data Intelligence
● Designed for Big Data
● High Performance
Data Storage and Distribution
● Global Resilient Architecture
● Global Edge Distribution
● Huge Secure Capacity
Global Data Centre & Networks
● Highly Resilient, Efficient & Performant
● 3rd Largest Server Manufacturer
● 2nd Largest Global Data Network
Google Research Publications referenced are available here: http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html
Company’s ApplicationsGoogle Products etc...
App Engine,
Cloud Endpoints
BigQuery,
Flume
Cloud Storage,
Cloud SQL,
Cloud DataStore
Compute Engine,
Cloud Networking,
Cloud DNS
GRTE, Stubby,
BorgCron
Sawmill, Dremel,
MapReduce
Colossus, BlobStore,
Spanner, BigTable, F1
Borg, GFE,
GSLB, GTC

12. IaaS
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
PaaS
Platform-as-a-Service
SaaS
Software-as-a-Service
Cloud Computing

13. Managed by Companies Managed by Google
Cloud Computing
SaaS
Software-as-a-Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
IaaS
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
PaaS
Platform-as-a-Service
Packaged
Software

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Storage
Cloud Storage Cloud SQL
Cloud
Datastore
Compute
Compute
Engine
App Engine
App Services
BigQuery
Cloud
Endpoints
Google Cloud Platform

15. Compute Engine

16. ● Google’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service
● Create Linux VMs, and connect to them as you
would any other remote machine
● Static + Dynamic Addressing
● Persistent disks and snapshotting
● Live migration
● Network and firewall creation
● Load balancing
● Regional and zonal resources for high availability
Compute Engine Features

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“Google Compute Engine is not just fast. It’s
Google fast. In fact, it’s a class of fast that
enables new service architectured entirely.”
- Sebastian Stadil, Scalr
Scalr

18. ● Built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime
● Building fast, scalable network applications.
● Uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model
● Lightweight and efficient
● Perfect for data-intensive real-time applications
● Run across distributed devices.
Node.js

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Compute Engine
Images by Connie Zhou

20. ● console.developers.google.com
● create project
● setup billing
● Install gcloud tool -
○ curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash
Compute Engine Setup

21. ● gcloud components update compute
● gcloud auth login
● gcloud config set project eastern-button-574
● gcloud compute instances create arun-hello-world --zone europe-west1-a
● gcloud compute firewalls create allow-http --description "Incoming http allowed." --allow tcp:80
● gcloud compute ssh arun-hello-world --zone europe-west1-a
Alternatives:
● gcutil - still around but gcloud is focus
● REST API - very powerful
● UI - easy to use
Compute Engine Create Instance

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Cloud Credit $500 Code - “dr-in”
Images by Connie Zhou

23. ● sudo apt-get install python g++ make checkinstall
● mkdir ~/src && cd $_
● wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
● tar xzvf node-latest.tar.gz && cd node-v*
● ./configure
● sudo checkinstall (make sure to fix version)
Compute Engine node.js installation

24. application: my-application
runtime: go
vm: true
…
manual_scaling:
instances: 1
vm_settings:
machine_type: n1-standard-1
apt_get_install: redis-server vim
Built using Modules
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/modules/
Limited preview - https://developers.google.com/cloud/managed-vms
Managed VMs (limited preview)

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Images by Connie Zhou