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Cloud Developer Learning Path

7 Courses
8 Hours
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In this path, application developers learn how to design, develop, and deploy applications that seamlessly integrate managed services from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to use GCP services and pre-trained machine learning APIs to build secure, scalable, and intelligent cloud-native applications. Learners can choose to complete labs in their favorite language: Node.js, Java, or Python. This class is intended for application developers who want to build cloud-native applications or redesign existing applications that will run on Google Cloud Platform.

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In this path, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate managed services from the Google Cloud Platform. Participants learn how to apply best practices for application development and use the appropriate GCP storage services for object storage, relational data, caching, and analytics.

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What You'll Learn
  • Use best practices for application development.
  • Choose the appropriate data storage option for application data.
  • Implement federated identity management.
  • Develop loosely coupled application components or microservices.
  • Integrate application components and data sources.
  • Debug, trace, and monitor applications.
  • Perform repeatable deployments with containers and deployment services.
  • Choose the appropriate application runtime environment; use Google Kubernetes Engine as a runtime environment and later switch to a no-ops solution with Google App Engine flexible environment.
Prerequisites
  • Participants should have basic proficiency with Linux command-line tools and operating system environments. Completion of the lab exercises requires working knowledge of a programming language including: Node.js, Python, or Java. Completion of the Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals - Core Infrastructure course is recommended for success.
Related topics
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Cloud Pub/Sub
  • Cloud Functions
  • App Engine
  • Kubernetes Engine
  • Compute Engine
  • Stackdriver
  • Cloud Build
  • Container Registry
  • Cloud Run
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