Developing Applications with Google Cloud

Module 1: Best Practices for Cloud Application Development

• Discuss best practices for application development in the cloud.

• Describe patterns for improving stability and reliability of cloud applications.

Module 2: Getting Started with Google Cloud Development

• Discuss how the Google Cloud SDK lets you interact with Google Cloud services.

• Describe how Cloud Client Libraries can be used in your applications.

• Discuss how Cloud Code helps developers create cloud applications on Google Cloud.

Module 3: Data Storage Options

• Understand how to choose the appropriate data storage option for application use cases.

• Use Firestore to store document-based application data.

• Use Cloud Storage to store unstructured data.

Module 4: Handling Authentication and Authorization

• Discuss how Identity-Aware Proxy authenticates application users.

• Describe the use of federated identity for applications in Google Cloud.

• Describe how to authenticate your application to Google Cloud APIs based on how your application is deployed.

• Use authentication and authorization to secure an application.

Module 5: Adding Intelligence to Your Application

• Describe how pretrained machine learning APIs can be called from applications.

• Differentiate the use cases for Google Cloud's pretrained machine learning APIs.

• Use a Google Cloud pretrained machine-learning API in an application.

Module 6: Deploying Applications

• Discuss the features of a continuous integration and delivery pipeline.

• Describe how to build and store application container images.

• Create a container image by using Cloud Build.

Module 7: Compute Options for Your Application

• Describe use cases for the different compute options used for running applications on Google Cloud.

• Differentiate the benefits of different compute options on Google Cloud.

Module 8: Monitoring and Performance Tuning

• Recognize the four golden signals.

• Describe benefits of the services in Google Cloud's operations suite.

Module 9: Introduction to Microservices

• Describe the differences between monolithic applications, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and microservices.

• Describe the benefits and challenges of microservice-based architectures.

Module 10: Event-Driven Applications

• List the characteristics of an event.

• Describe the advantages of event-driven applications.

Module 11: Choreography and Orchestration

• Understand how Pub/Sub and Eventarc can be used to connect services by using the choreography pattern.

• Explain the benefits of using CloudEvents for event metadata.

• Understand how Workflows can be used to orchestrate services.

• Differentiate the use cases for choreography and orchestration.

• Use Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler to coordinate a microservices application on Google Cloud.

Module 12: Introduction to Cloud Functions

• Define Cloud Functions.

• Identify the use cases, features, and benefits of Cloud Functions.

• Distinguish the types of Cloud Functions, and identify the supported languages for developing functions.

• Develop and deploy a Cloud Function using the Google Cloud console and gcloud CLI.

Module 13: Calling and Connecting Cloud Functions

• Understand the different kinds of triggers available, and learn how to specify triggers for functions.

• Connect services and functions with workflows.

• Connect functions to resources in a VPC network.

Module 14: Securing Cloud Functions

• Secure Cloud Functions with identity and network-based access controls.

• Understand function identity. • Understand how to authenticate and authorize access to functions for invocation and administration.

• Protect functions and related data with encryption keys.

Module 15: Integrating with Cloud Databases

• Integrate Cloud Functions with cloud databases such as Firestore, and Memorystore.

• Use secrets with Cloud Functions.

• Use environment variables with Cloud Functions.

Module 16: Best Practices

• Use best practices when developing and implementing Cloud Functions.

• Understand how to retry event-driven Cloud Functions on failure.

Application developers, architects, and cloud engineers.

Prerequisite:

• Programming experience is recommended.

• Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments is helpful.