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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter
Book Image

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)

Frameworks and tooling

The Functions as a Service space is rapidly growing, and there are a number of tools and frameworks to aid in developing in this new space. Perhaps the most popular of these is the Serverless Framework. The Serverless Framework allows developers to build and deploy functions in a cloud-agnostic manner. Support for Google Cloud is currently limited to HTTP triggers and Pub/Sub triggers (called events).

For organizations that are seriously considering a move to serverless architectures, it may be worth considering some of the open source FaaS solutions, many of which can be made to run on top of Kubernetes Engine. These platforms include OpenFaaS and Fission.