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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

Google Cloud IoT Core


IoT is a rapidly growing area of technology with many exciting applications. Any internet-enabled device can be considered part of IoT, from kiosks and smart cars to integrated circuits, making IoT solutions applicable to a wide array of problems. As the size and cost of manufacturing internet-enabled devices continues to decrease, the once very significant barriers to entry are becoming more feasible. By some estimates, the number of IoT devices worldwide is expected to reach 30 billion by 2020.

Bringing IoT devices to production does, however, present many interesting challenges. Device security is paramount: developers need scalable methods for authenticating large numbers of devices and securing communications between devices and central services. Once in the field, developers need methods for supporting, controlling, and updating devices, both on an individual basis and en masse. Much of the power of IoT comes from the often gargantuan amounts of telemetry data...