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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 App Engine

Google App Engine is Google's entry to the PaaS market. Developers are able to build applications in virtually any language or framework, and hand their applications off to App Engine. The platform then manages these applications in terms of monitoring, scaling, and releasing security patches.

Google introduced the world to App Engine as a limited developer preview in April 2007. It could be said this marked the beginning of what is now GCP. Over the following years, App Engine (and its dedicated user base) has played a critical role in driving Google's Cloud strategy and entry into the public cloud market.

"One of App Engine's most requested features has been a simple way to develop traditional database-driven applications. In response to your feedback, we're happy to announce the limited preview of Google Cloud SQL."

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