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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

Google Cloud Functions


Google entered the Functions as a Service arena in February 2016 with the alpha launch of Cloud Functions. At time of writing, Cloud Functions is transitioning to general availability, and support is limited to JavaScript functions for a select few types of events. Still, in this early phase of Cloud Functions, the platform offers a tremendous amount of utility for certain classes of problems.

One of the primary use cases for Cloud Functions are as glue to create cross-service integrations between various GCP services, as well as external services such as user-defined web services and external third-party systems. However, teams may choose to develop entire service layers using the functions. When taken to the extreme, this can result in a pure microservice pattern, where each API operation is implemented as a discrete function.

Google Cloud Functions are structured as one or more Node.js modules, where the function to invoke is a named export. A single code base can...