This book is geared towards readers with a familiarity of basic application development and DevOps concepts. The exercises provided in this book include Java, Python, Node.js, Go, SQL, and shell scripting. These exercises are designed to be simple and easy to complete without prior knowledge of a specific language or framework.

All examples and exercises in this book can be completed directly within the Google Cloud Console and Google Cloud Shell, however many users will prefer to work within a local development environment. To do so, download and install the Google Cloud SDK available at https://cloud.google.com/sdk/.

You can download the example code files for this book from your account at www.packtpub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files emailed directly to you.

You can download the code files by following these steps:

1. Log in or register at www.packtpub.com.
2. Select the SUPPORT tab.
3. Click on Code Downloads & Errata.
4. Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

Once the file is downloaded, please make sure that you unzip or extract the folder using the latest version of:

• WinRAR/7-Zip for Windows
• Zipeg/iZip/UnRarX for Mac
• 7-Zip/PeaZip for Linux

The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Google-Cloud-Platform-for-Developers. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/GoogleCloudPlatformforDevelopers_ColorImages.pdf.

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Web Preview runs on port 8080 by default, but can be mapped to any port from 8080-8084 via the Web Preview settings"

A block of code is set as follows:

{
    "eventId": "27819225098479",
    "timestamp": "2018-01-27T18:11:24.836Z",
    "eventType": "providers/cloud.pubsub/eventTypes/topic.publish",
    "resource": "projects/<PROJECT_ID>/topics/<TOPIC_NAME>",
    "data": {
      "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.pubsub.v1.PubsubMessage",
      "attributes": {
          "<KEY1>": "<VALUE1>",
          "<KEY2>": "<VALUE2>"
},

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

gcloud compute instances create my-custom-instance \
--region=us-central1 \
--memory=12GiB \
--cpu=2

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "This can be found in the Cloud Shell menu under Send key combination | Install Chrome extension."