Ted Hunter - Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions: Develop scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language

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Ted Hunter is a software engineering consultant who 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. Currently, he is a solution architect at Slalom Consulting, serving clients in the Southeastern United States.

Steven Porter is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Google Certified Cloud Architect, and a consulting technology leader for Slalom Atlanta's Software Engineering practice. His major focus for more than 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.

Legorie Rajan PS has an experience of 12 years in software development, business analysis, and project management. Currently, he works as a cloud consultant on cloud migrations on AWS, Azure, and GCP. He has a rich multicultural experience working in India, the United States, and France. He is a certified AWS solutions architect, RHCE, CEH, and a consultant for application migration to the Cloud. He has a good understanding of full-stack development, and has also been a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing.

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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.
This course will help you develop and deploy scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language. This course will guide you in designing, deploying, and managing applications running on Google Cloud. Youll start with App Engine and move on to work with Container Engine, compute engine, and cloud functions. Youll learn how to integrate your new applications with the various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. The next instalment of the course starts with practical recipes that explain how to utilize Google Cloud's common services. There are recipes for implementing authentication and security, Cloud APIs, command-line management, deployment management, and the Cloud SDK. Finally, we'll cover administration troubleshooting tasks with the Compute and Container Engines and we'll show how to monitor your organization's efficiency with best practices.
By the end of this course, youll be well-versed with all the development tools of Google Cloud Platform, and youll develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

• Google Cloud Platform for Developers by Ted Hunter and Steven Porter
• Google Cloud Platform Cookbook by Legorie Rajan PS

This book is designed for developers , IT professionals, and engineers, looking at implementing Google Cloud in their organizations. Administrators and architects planning to make their organization more efficient with Google Cloud will also find this course useful.

, 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.

, The Google Cloud Console, this chapter serves to familiarize readers with the primary user interfaces they will use when interacting with Google Cloud.

, APIs, CLIs, IAM, and Billing, in this chapter, readers will learn about the various command line tools provided by Google for managing cloud resources. Readers will also learn about the other tools that will enable them to manage their Google Cloud projects throughout the book.

, Google App Engine, this chapter will explain what Google App Engine (GAE) is, the driving philosophies behind it, and how to use it to run highly-scalable services.