Introduction to Google Compute Engine
by Lynn Langit
Learn about concepts and technologies that make up the Google Compute Engine service, and understand what GCE (hosted virtual machines) on Google's cloud has to offer for developers.
What you'll learn
In this course, Google Developer Expert Lynn Langit introduces you to Google's Cloud technologies for hosted virtual machines or Google Compute Engine. This course will get you up and running with the definitions and technologies you need to know. By the end of the course, you’ll know what Google has to offer in the infrastructure as a service cloud arena and how to devise a strategy for adopting Google Compute Engine. The 'Introduction to Google cloud' Pluralsight course is a prerequisite. This course is aimed at developers and business decision makers, and is actionable for executives as well. It includes a demos of using the various tools and APIs to work with GCE.
About the author
Lynn is Founder of Lynn Langit Consulting, an analysis, strategy and advisory firm serving data customers. She is the author of 3 books on SQL Server Business Intelligence (OLAP) the most recent of which is 'Smart Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2008'/MSPress. Lynn is also the author of many articles on BigData Technologies. In 2012 she was recognized by Google for her community education work around their commercial cloud and received the Google Developer Expert award. Since leaving a ... more4 year stint at Microsoft in 2011, Lynn has been leading architecture projects and educating developers around the work in data technologies. These include SQL Server, Hadoop, MongoDB, AWS RDS, DynamoDB and Google Cloud technologies. Lynn is a ‘trusted tester’ (or ‘insider’) for upcoming technologies from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Right Scale, 10Gen, Cloudera, Melissa Data, QlikView and more. Lynn is also the co-founder of the non-profit ‘Teaching Kids Programming’ (more at http://www.teachingkidsprogramming.com).