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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

Reviewing the executive statement, existing solution, and requirements

In this section, we will review all the sections in detail and apply the technique of underlining keywords and mapping technologies in order to extract the information necessary for decision-making.

Executive statement

Let's look at the executive statement. Highlighted words appear in bold:

"We are the number one local community app; it's time to take our local community services global. Our venture capital investors want to see rapid growth and the same great experience for new local and virtual communities that come online, whether their members are 10 or 10,000 miles away from each other."

In this section, we can highlight three important concepts that are worth mentioning.

Global services

Let's look at the first keyword we highlighted, global. This is a location-based keyword that indicates a need for global services. This indicates that the services have to be multi...