Ted Hunter - Google Cloud Platform for Developers: Build highly scalable cloud solutions with the power of Google Cloud Platform

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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.

Sanket Thodge is an entrepreneur by profession based out of Pune, India. He is an author of the book Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform . He is a founder of Pi R Square Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd. With expertise as Hadoop Developer, Sanket explored Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, and Blockchain. He has also applied for a patent in IoT and has worked with numerous startups and MNCs in providing consultancy, architecture building, development, and corporate training across globe.

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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.

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, Why GCP? , this chapter introduces readers to the Google Cloud Platform. It provides an overview of cloud computing, a brief history of GCP, as well as a comparison to other public cloud providers.

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