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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter
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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides autoscaling compute power and distributed in-memory cache, task queues, and datastores to write, build, and deploy Cloud-hosted applications. With Google Cloud Platform for Developers, you will be able to develop and deploy scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language. This book will guide you in designing, deploying, and managing applications running on Google Cloud. You’ll start with App Engine and move on to work with Container Engine, compute engine, and cloud functions. You’ll learn how to integrate your new applications with the various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. This book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools such as Source Repositories, Container Builder, and StackDriver. Along the way, you’ll see how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerting for your production systems. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with all the development tools of Google Cloud Platform, and you’ll develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Google Cloud APIs

Underneath every user interface, command-line tool and SDK for Google Cloud is a purpose-built set of APIs. These APIs offer deep control over every facet of the Google Cloud Platform. Understanding the layout and mechanisms to control these APIs is an important step in mastering the overall platform.

Managing APIs

The Google Cloud Console offers a reasonably detailed dashboard for controlling API access and monitoring usage. To view the dashboard, go to Navigation menu | APIs & Services | Dashboard. From here, users can view time-series metrics for traffic, errors, and latency, as well as a breakdown of API usage by service. This is a good way to get an overall feel of the activity of your project across...