Google Cloud for App Developers

Teach developers to design, build, deploy, and scale cloud-native applications on GCP using Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, and Dataflow.

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Audience: Developers, Architects

Duration: Three to four days, depending on coverage

Format: Lectures and hands-on labs. (50 %, 50 %)

Overview

This class will teach how to use Google Cloud Platform to develop reliable, scalable applications.

Objective

Teach developers to design, build, deploy, and scale cloud-native applications on GCP using Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, and Dataflow.

What You Will Learn

Understand Google Cloud's features
Using Compute Engine
Using Google Cloud Storage

Course Details

Audience: Developers, Architects

Duration: Three to four days, depending on coverage

Format: Lectures and hands-on labs. (50 %, 50 %)

Prerequisites:

Development background • Familiarity with Java and/or Python is highly recommended

Setup: Zero-Install cloud lab • Google Cloud account required • Modern laptop • Unrestricted Internet

Detailed Outline

Benefits of Cloud computing
Google Cloud ecosystem overview
Lab: Getting up and running in Google Cloud

Intro & resource types
Customising a cloud VM
Lab: Using Compute Engine

Data-ingestion options
Scheduling ingestion
Lab

Introduction & queries
Labs

Colab, Datalab, Jupyter
Installing packages
Labs

Intro, loading data, queries
Lab

Intro, scaling apps, labs

Concepts & architecture
Publishing & consuming streams

Architecture, table & row-key design
Inserting & querying data
Labs

Apache Beam / Cloud Dataflow
Real-time dashboards
Labs

Spark shell, DataFrames, SQL, labs

Running Hadoop & Spark clusters
Labs

Team project on a real-world problem using Google Cloud