Develop, deploy, and scale your applications with Google Cloud Platform
Key Features:
- Create and deploy your applications on Google Cloud Platform
- Store and manage source code and debug Cloud-hosted apps with plugins and IDEs
- Streamline developer workflows with tools for alerting and managing deployments
Book Description:
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides autoscaling compute power and distributed in-memory cache, task queues, and datastores to write, build, and deploy Cloud-hosted applications.
With Google Cloud Platform for Developers, you will be able to develop and deploy scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language. This book will guide you in designing, deploying, and managing applications running on Google Cloud. You'll start with App Engine and move on to work with Container Engine, compute engine, and cloud functions. You'll learn how to integrate your new applications with the various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. This book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools such as Source Repositories, Container Builder, and StackDriver. Along the way, you'll see how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerting for your production systems.
By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with all the development tools of Google Cloud Platform, and you'll develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications.
What You Will Learn:
Understand the various service offerings on GCP
Deploy and run services on managed platforms such as App Engine and Container Engine
Securely maintain application states with Cloud Storage, Datastore, and Bigtable
Leverage StackDriver monitoring and debugging to minimize downtime and mitigate issues without impacting users
Design and implement complex software solutions utilizing Google Cloud
Integrate with best-in-class big data solutions such as Bigquery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub
Who this book is for:
Google Cloud Platform for Developers is for application developers. This book will enable you to fully leverage the power of Google Cloud Platform to build resilient and intelligent software solutions.
Ted Hunter is a software engineering consultant working with fortune 500 companies to design cloud-native solutions and drive public cloud adoption, primarily within the Google ecosystem. He has a background in full stack development, DevOps transformation, and designing enterprise data solutions. He is currently a Solution Architect at Slalom Consulting, serving clients in the Southeastern United States.
Steven Porter is a consulting technology leader for Slalom Atlanta's Software Engineering practice, a Microsoft Regional Director, and a Google Certified Cloud Architect. His major focus for the past 5+ years has been IT modernization and cloud adoption with implementations across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and numerous hybrid/private cloud platforms. Outside of work, Steve is an avid outdoorsman spending as much time as possible outside hiking, hunting, and fishing with his family of five.
