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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

Summary


Serverless technologies are one of the hottest areas of modern cloud computing. The very high level of abstraction associated with FaaS platforms makes it possible to get quite a lot done with very little code. Developers can choose to for go the ceremony and boilerplate coding associated with running web services and instead focus directly on writing the code that solves problems and adds real business value.

The Google Cloud Functions platform addresses this growing need with a fast, simple, and powerful platform. While still early, GCF offers tremendous value to teams looking to move quickly. With HTTP triggers, developers can create very thin API implementations that scale seamlessly. With background functions, teams can quickly construct event-driven service integrations on top of Cloud Storage and Pub/Sub. In both cases, Cloud Functions may offer tremendous advantages in both developer velocity and resource costs.