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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS
Book Image

Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS

Overview of this book

GCP is a cloud computing platform with a wide range of products and services that enable you to build and deploy cloud-hosted applications. This Learning Path will guide you in using GCP and designing, deploying, and managing applications on Google Cloud. You will get started by learning how to use App Engine to access Google's scalable hosting and build software that runs on this framework. With the help of Google Compute Engine, you’ll be able to host your workload on virtual machine instances. The later chapters will help you to explore ways to implement authentication and security, Cloud APIs, and command-line and deployment management. As you hone your skills, you’ll understand how to integrate your new applications with various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. Following this, the book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools, including Source Repositories, Container Builder, and Stackdriver. You'll also understand how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerts for your production systems. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be well versed with GCP’s development tools and be able to develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Google Cloud Platform for Developers Ted Hunter and Steven Porter • Google Cloud Platform Cookbook by Legorie Rajan PS
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Stackdriver APM


So far we've seen how to monitor our systems in various ways, including Stackdriver metrics, logs, and error reporting. These tools provide a means to identify issues in real time, and a great starting point for identifying and fixing bugs. However, there are still several cases where these tools fail to provide helpful information, specifically around application performance.

To this end, Google offers Stackdriver Application Performance Management (APM). Stackdriver APM consists of a set of tools for quickly identifying and diagnosing application-level issues for services running in cloud environments. These tools include Stackdriver Trace, for tracking network requests across services: Stackdriver Debugger, for delving into application state on running systems; and Stackdriver Profiler, for identifying performance issues and inefficiencies.

The Stackdriver APM tools provide integrations with many other Stackdriver offerings. Developers can quickly jump from an error in Stackdriver...