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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By : Sanket Thodge
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By: Sanket Thodge

Overview of this book

With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide their distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data. This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud, and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you’re planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you understand the design and business considerations to be kept in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics, based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available in Google Cloud Platform and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on building an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Google Cloud Functions


Google Cloud Functions is a service where you only submit your code and the responsibility of the infrastructure is completely Google Cloud Platform’s. Thus, Google cloud functions in short provide an environment to support in building an application and connecting with cloud services.

We can use Cloud Functions to write very basic single-purpose functions. These functions are attached to events emitted from our services and cloud infrastructure. We are not required to make any provision of any infrastructure or worry about taking care of any infrastructure. Automatic triggering of cloud functions will take place in the case of an event being programmed. Cloud Functions and its applications will take care of infrastructure management.

Cloud functions can be developed in multiple languages in multiple environments on Google Cloud Platform.

Connecting and extending cloud services

We can have a connective layer of logic that lets us write code to connect and extend cloud...