Developing Applications with Google Cloud
In this 3-day instructor-led course, you learn the fundamentals of application development on Google Cloud. You learn best practices for designing cloud applications, and how to choose compute and data options for your apps. The curriculum covers authentication and authorization, generative AI for developers, and continuous integration and delivery for apps running in Google Cloud. You also explore event-based applications and the use of service orchestration and choreography to coordinate microservices. Additionally, you learn about Cloud Functions, which allows you to implement single-purpose functions that respond to HTTP requests and process events within your cloud infrastructure.
- Duration: 3 days
- Languages: English, German
- Level: Introductory
- Group size: Up to 16
What you'll learn
- Discuss best practices for application development in the cloud.
- Understand how to choose the appropriate data storage option for application use cases.
- Use authentication and authorization to secure an application.
- Describe use cases for the different Google Cloud compute options used for running applications.
- Describe the benefits and challenges of microservice-based architectures.
- Describe the advantages of event-driven applications.
- Identify the strengths of orchestration and choreography.
- Use Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler to coordinate a microservices application on Google Cloud.
- Recognize the benefits of and use cases for Cloud Functions in modern application development.
- Understand how to build, test, and deploy Cloud Functions.
- Secure and connect Cloud Functions to resources and cloud databases.
- Use best practices with Cloud Functions.
Prerequisites
- Programming experience is recommended.Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments is helpful.
Course outline
Best Practices for Cloud Application Development
- Introduces best practices for developing applications that run in the cloud.
Getting Started with Google Cloud Development
- Introduces the various Google Cloud tools you will use to develop your applications.
Data Storage Options
- Compares the data storage and database services provided by Google Cloud.
Handling Authentication and Authorization
- Explains how authentication and authorization are added to your cloud applications.
Adding Intelligence to Your Application
- Discusses how pretrained machine learning APIs and generative AI can improve your cloud applications.
Deploying Applications
- Discusses how to build and deploy applications on Google Cloud.
Compute Options for Your Application
- Discusses the compute options available for running your applications in Google Cloud.
Monitoring and Performance Tuning
- Discusses the application use cases of the services in Google Cloud's operations suite.
Introduction to Microservices
- Introduces microservices and discusses the benefits and challenges of using a microservices architecture.
Event-Driven Applications
- Introduces events and event-driven applications and discusses the benefits of choosing an event-driven architecture.
Choreography and Orchestration
- Introduces choreography and orchestration as patterns for inter-service communication.
- Use of Eventarc for the choreography pattern.
- Use of Workflows for orchestration.
- Building microservices applications with Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler.
Introduction to Cloud Functions
- An introduction to Cloud Functions.
- Benefits and use cases.
- Types of Cloud Functions and language runtimes.
Calling and Connecting Cloud Functions
- Cloud Functions triggers.
- Connecting Cloud Functions.
Securing Cloud Functions
- Accessing and authenticating to functions.
- Protecting functions and data.
Integrating with Cloud Databases
- Integrate Cloud Functions with cloud databases.
- Use secrets with Cloud Functions.
Best Practices
- Cloud Functions best practices.
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