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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By : Sanket Thodge
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By: Sanket Thodge

Overview of this book

With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide their distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data. This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud, and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you’re planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you understand the design and business considerations to be kept in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics, based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available in Google Cloud Platform and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on building an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Applications of cloud computing


Accordingly, there is no restriction for uses of cloud computing. With the exact middleware set up, the cloud computing ecosystem can run each kind of program that a regular computer system can run. The kind of projects that cloud computing ecosystem underpins, run from straightforward spreadsheet software to highly tweaked enterprise scale software.

At this moment, an imperative inquiry is the reason you, me, or any other individual might want to depend on an outsider's computing ecosystem to run software and store information. We should observe a few reasons for this, as follows:

  • Your clients can get to their information and applications from any place and whenever they need to. The clients would simply require any web empowered device (desktop PC, laptop, tablet PC, smart phone, kiosk, and so on). The applications and information would not be limited to a particular hard drive on a particular client's device or an internal network server of any corporate...