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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS
Book Image

Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS

Overview of this book

GCP is a cloud computing platform with a wide range of products and services that enable you to build and deploy cloud-hosted applications. This Learning Path will guide you in using GCP and designing, deploying, and managing applications on Google Cloud. You will get started by learning how to use App Engine to access Google's scalable hosting and build software that runs on this framework. With the help of Google Compute Engine, you’ll be able to host your workload on virtual machine instances. The later chapters will help you to explore ways to implement authentication and security, Cloud APIs, and command-line and deployment management. As you hone your skills, you’ll understand how to integrate your new applications with various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. Following this, the book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools, including Source Repositories, Container Builder, and Stackdriver. You'll also understand how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerts for your production systems. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be well versed with GCP’s development tools and be able to develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Google Cloud Platform for Developers Ted Hunter and Steven Porter • Google Cloud Platform Cookbook by Legorie Rajan PS
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Stackdriver Debugger


With Stackdriver Trace and Stackdriver Error Reporting, we can quickly identify issues and zero in on the offending service. Often, this provides enough information to resolve the issue, but what if the issue is difficult to reproduce locally? Perhaps the issue only occurs under extreme load or when running in the production environment. In these cases, Google Cloud provides a very powerful solution in Stackdriver Debugger.

Stackdriver Debugger allows developers to set breakpoints in running services. Unlike traditional debuggers, Stackdriver Debugger does not halt the application process when these breakpoints are triggered. Rather, Stackdriver will take a snapshot of the application state, which you can later use to investigate things such as variable values and call stacks. This means that your end users aren't affected by the debugging process, allowing developers to effectively debug production systems.

Debugging the todos services

Stackdriver Debugger can be used...