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Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer Exam Guide

By : Sebastian Moreno
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Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer Exam Guide

By: Sebastian Moreno

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform is one of the three major cloud providers in the industry, exhibiting great leadership in application modernization and data management. This book provides a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to cloud development and shows you how to use the tools to create cloud-native applications by integrating the technologies used by Google. The book starts by taking you through the basic programming concepts and security fundamentals necessary for developing in Google Cloud. You'll then discover best practices for developing and deploying applications in the cloud using different components offered by Google Cloud Platform such as Cloud Functions, Google App Engine, Cloud Run, and other GCP technologies. As you advance, you'll learn the basics of cloud storage and choosing the best options for storing different kinds of data as well as understand what site reliability engineers do. In the last part, you'll work on a sample case study of Hip Local, a community application designed to facilitate communication between people nearby, created by the Google Cloud team. By the end of this guide, you'll have learned how to design, develop, and deploy an end-to-end application on the Google Cloud Platform.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Welcome to the Google Cloud Developers' Guide
4
Section 2: Developing and Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud Platform
9
Section 3: Storage Foundations
14
Section 4: SRE for Developers
17
Section 5: Analyzing a Sample Case Study

Handling high traffic volumes with Memorystore for Memcached

Memorystore for Memcached is a highly scalable and fully managed service built on top of the open source technology known as Memcached, a high-performance system for caching objects in memory to accelerate the use of dynamic web pages and reduce the load on databases.

The implementation of Memcached in Memorystore allows us to access the service through any library that uses the Memcached standards. This allows us to use various programming languages so that we can develop and migrate the tasks of existing applications that are using this technology.

One advantage of this fully managed service is that we can implement an instance composed of a cluster and one or more nodes without the complexity of performing an installation from scratch. This also means we can focus on developing our application while operational tasks are delegated to Google Cloud.

For more information about Memcached, go to the official documentation...