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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

Relational databases have been a cornerstone of mission-critical systems for decades, to the point of largely becoming ubiquitous. For many, a primary driver of public cloud adoption is the move to managed services, and the time and resources those managed services free up. It makes sense that moving to a managed database solution should be high on anybody's list. With Cloud SQL, Google provides developers with the technology they're already familiar with: MySQL and PostgreSQL, but with all the benefits of a fully managed service.

Cloud SQL provides an easy on-ramp for companies looking to perform a traditional lift-and-shift cloud migration, as well as a great starting point for building new, cloud-native solutions. Teams can have a production ready database up and running at the click of a button, and seamlessly scale that database in compute and storage as...