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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)

GCS basics

Managing large amounts of data presents a number of challenges. Even managing relatively small amounts of data well can be challenging. There are countless managed and self-hosted storage solutions available today. Many of these services look to address the same core set of requirements; high durability, low cost, security, and governance to name a few.

Additionally, many applications have more specific requirements. Some applications require that data remain highly available, while others can sacrifice availability in the name of minimizing storage costs. For many applications, the lines of availability and cost are not so clear. Finally, data exists to be used. A good data storage solution should provide clear and easy paths for integration with other tools and services. GCS addresses all of these issues, often in powerful and innovative ways.

On the surface, Cloud...