Raj Judy - Google Cloud Platform for Architects : Design and Manage Powerful Cloud Solutions.

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Vitthal Srinivasan is a Google Cloud Platform Authorized Trainer and certified Google Cloud Architect and Data Engineer. Vitthal holds master's degrees in math and electrical engineering from Stanford and an MBA from INSEAD. He has worked at Google as well as at other large firms, such as Credit Suisse and Flipkart. He is currently in Loonycorn, a technical video content studio, of which he is a cofounder.

Janani Ravi is a certified Google Cloud Architect and Data Engineer. She has earned her master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford. She is currently in Loonycorn, a technical video content studio, of which she is a cofounder. Prior to co-founding Loonycorn, she worked at various leading companies, such as Google and Microsoft, for several years as a software engineer.

Judy Raj is a Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, and she has great experience with the three leading cloud platforms, namely AWS, Azure, and the GCP. She has also worked with a wide range of technologies in machine learning, data science, IoT, robotics, and mobile and web app development. She is currently a technical content engineer in Loonycorn. She holds a degree in computer science and engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology. Being a driven engineer fascinated with technology, she is a passionate coder, an AI enthusiast, and a cloud aficionado.

Tim Berry is a systems architect and software engineer with over 20 years of experience in building enterprise infrastructure and systems on the internet and mobile platforms. He currently leads a team of SREs building customer solutions on Google Cloud Platform for a managed services provider in the UK. Tim is a Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect and Data Engineer, a Red Hat Certified Engineer, and systems administrator. He holds Red Hat Certified Specialist status for configuration management and containerized application development.

Nisarg M. Vasavada is a content engineer in Loonycorn. He has pursued his master's in engineering at GTU, and he has been an active member of technical education and research community with his publications. He loves writing and believes that simplifying complexities is the biggest responsibility of an author.

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The Google Cloud Platform is fast emerging as a leading public cloud provider. The GCP, as it is popularly known, is backed by Googles awe-inspiring engineering expertise and infrastructure, and is able to draw upon the goodwill and respect that Google has come to enjoy. The GCP is one of a handful of public cloud providers to offer the full range of cloud computing services, ranging from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS). There is another reason why the GCP is fast gaining popularity; genre-defining technologies such as TensorFlow and Kubernetes originated at Google before being open-sourced, and the GCP is a natural choice of cloud on which to run them. If you are a cloud professional today, time spent on mastering the GCP is likely to be an excellent investment.