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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)

Summary

There are many diverse services in the Google Cloud Platform, making it possible to build any number of solutions that enable businesses to solve big problems. An important aspect of building effective cloud solutions is the ability to monitor and control the resources and services those solutions are built on. Google provides this control in the form of rich APIs that span the entire platform. With tools such as the API Library and APIs explorer, the underlying APIs that drive Google Cloud become transparent and easy to navigate.

To aid in development and operations, Google provides a powerful set of tools and resources in a single, easy-to-use SDK. With the Google Cloud SDK, developers have access to an incredibly powerful set of tools like gcloud. With command groups that span virtually all Google Cloud services, developers have an easy way to interact with their cloud...