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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

Learning logging best practices in the cloud

When we are developing an application in our local environment, it is possible to perform debugging operations in order to gain insight into the contribution of different functions and lines of code to the operation of our application, and thus be able to correct unwanted behaviors or errors in encoding.

However, from the moment we deploy our application in an environment other than our local environment (such as a production environment) and it begins to be used by users, we lose visibility and control, and the task of detecting problems in something becomes much more complex.

The correct implementation of logs in our applications is therefore very important to facilitate the detection of bugs and problems in production environments.

Next, we will review general good practices related to the implementation of logs as a way of reducing the difficulty of troubleshooting tasks, thus helping us to detect errors more effectively.

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