Building Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform shows you how to take advantage of the
Google Cloud Platform technologies to build all kinds of cloud-hosted software and services for
both public and private consumption. Whether you need a simple virtual server to run your
legacy application or you need to architect a sophisticated high-traffic web application Cloud
Platform provides all the tools and products required to create innovative applications and a
robust infrastructure to manage them. Google is known for the scalability reliability and
efficiency of its various online products from Google Search to Gmail. And the results are
impressive. Google Search for example returns results literally within fractions of second.
How is this possible? Google custom-builds both hardware and software including servers
switches networks data centers the operating system s stack application frameworks
applications and APIs. Have you ever imagined what you could build if you were able to tap the
same infrastructure that Google uses to create and manage its products? Now you can! Building
Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform shows you how to take advantage of the Google
Cloud Platform technologies to build all kinds of cloud-hosted software and services for both
public and private consumption. Whether you need a simple virtual server to run your legacy
application or you need to architect a sophisticated high-traffic web application Cloud
Platform provides all the tools and products required to create innovative applications and a
robust infrastructure to manage them. Using this book as your compass you can navigate your
way through the Google Cloud Platform and turn your ideas into reality. The authors both
Google Developer Experts in Google Cloud Platform systematically introduce various Cloud
Platform products one at a time and discuss their strengths and scenarios where they are a
suitable fit. But rather than a manual-like tell all approach the emphasis is on how to Get
Things Done so that you get up to speed with Google Cloud Platform as quickly as possible. You
will learn how to use the following technologies among others: Google Compute Engine Google
App Engine Google Container Engine Google App Engine Managed VMs Google Cloud SQL Google Cloud
Storage Google Cloud Datastore Google BigQuery Google Cloud Dataflow Google Cloud DNS Google
Cloud Pub Sub Google Cloud Endpoints Google Cloud Deployment Manager Author on Google Cloud
Platform Google APIs and Translate API Using real-world examples the authors first walk you
through the basics of cloud computing cloud terminologies and public cloud services. Then they
dive right into Google Cloud Platform and how you can use it to tackle your challenges build
new products analyze big data and much more. Whether you re an independent developer startup
or Fortune 500 company you have never had easier to access to world-class production product
development and infrastructure tools. Google Cloud Platform is your ticket to leveraging your
skills and knowledge into making reliable scalable and efficient products just like how
Google builds its own products.
