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Developing Applications with Google Cloud: Foundations

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Developing Applications with Google Cloud: Foundations

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.8

29 reviews

Beginner level
No prior experience required
8 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Discuss best practices for application development in the cloud.

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

  • Use authentication and authorization to secure an application.

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

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There are 10 modules in this course

In this course, you learn the fundamentals of application development on Google Cloud. You learn best practices for cloud applications, and how to select compute and data options to match your application use cases. You're introduced to generative AI and how it's used to help build applications. You learn about authentication and authorization, application deployment, continuous integration and delivery, and monitoring and performance tuning for your applications running in Google Cloud. Using lectures and hands-on labs, you learn how to get started building and running applications on Google Cloud.

Welcome to "Developing Applications with Google Cloud: Foundations." This course introduces you to best practices for cloud applications and how to select compute and data options to match application use cases. You learn about Google services for continuous integration and delivery, how to deploy your applications, and how to monitor your applications as they run in Google Cloud. You also learn how Google Cloud helps you build authentication, authorization, security, and artificial intelligence into your applications. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn the fundamentals of application development in Google Cloud.

What's included

1 video

1 video•Total 2 minutes
  • Course introduction•2 minutes

This module introduces best practices for developing applications that run in the cloud.

What's included

2 videos1 assignment

2 videos•Total 15 minutes
  • Best practices for cloud application development (1)•8 minutes
  • Best practices for cloud application development (2)•7 minutes
1 assignment•Total 4 minutes
  • Best practices for cloud application development•4 minutes

This module introduces the different Google Cloud tools that you will use to develop your applications.

What's included

6 videos1 assignment

6 videos•Total 13 minutes
  • Overview•1 minute
  • Cloud APIs and the Google Cloud SDK•1 minute
  • The Google Cloud CLI•3 minutes
  • Cloud Client Libraries•2 minutes
  • Cloud Shell and Cloud Code•5 minutes
  • Summary•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 6 minutes
  • Quiz: Getting started with Google Cloud development•6 minutes

This module compares the data storage and database services provided by Google Cloud.

What's included

5 videos1 assignment1 app item1 plugin

5 videos•Total 12 minutes
  • Overview•1 minute
  • Cloud Storage and databases•7 minutes
  • BigQuery, Memorystore, and product comparisons•2 minutes
  • Lab overview•0 minutes
  • Summary•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 6 minutes
  • Quiz: Data storage options•6 minutes
1 app item•Total 90 minutes
  • Lab: Storing application data•90 minutes
1 plugin•Total 15 minutes
  • Accessing and completing labs•15 minutes

This module explains how authentication and authorization are added to your cloud applications.

What's included

7 videos1 assignment

7 videos•Total 26 minutes
  • Overview•1 minute
  • Authorization with Cloud IAM•4 minutes
  • Authenticating to Google APIs and service accounts•5 minutes
  • Choosing an authentication method•8 minutes
  • Other authentication/authorization methods•3 minutes
  • Using Secret Manager•4 minutes
  • Summary•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 6 minutes
  • Quiz: Handling authentication and authorization•6 minutes

This module discusses how pre-trained machine learning APIs and generative AI can improve your cloud applications.

What's included

5 videos1 assignment1 app item

5 videos•Total 12 minutes
  • Overview•1 minute
  • Using pre-trained machine learning models•4 minutes
  • Intro to generative AI•6 minutes
  • Lab overview•0 minutes
  • Summary•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 4 minutes
  • Quiz: Adding intelligence to your application•4 minutes
1 app item•Total 90 minutes
  • Lab: Adding user authentication and Intelligence to your application•90 minutes

This module discusses how to build and deploy applications on Google Cloud.

What's included

4 videos1 assignment

4 videos•Total 12 minutes
  • Overview•1 minute
  • Continuous integration and delivery•5 minutes
  • Containers and building application images•6 minutes
  • Summary•0 minutes
1 assignment•Total 4 minutes
  • Quiz: Deploying applications•4 minutes

This module discusses the compute options available for running your applications in Google Cloud.

What's included

6 videos1 assignment

6 videos•Total 29 minutes
  • Overview•2 minutes
  • Compute Engine•3 minutes
  • Google Kubernetes Engine•9 minutes
  • Cloud Run•10 minutes
  • Comparisons•5 minutes
  • Summary•0 minutes
1 assignment•Total 6 minutes
  • Quiz: Compute options for your application•6 minutes

This module discusses the application use cases of the services in Google Cloud Observability.

What's included

7 videos1 assignment1 app item

7 videos•Total 21 minutes
  • Overview•1 minute
  • Google Cloud Observability•5 minutes
  • Logging and metrics•7 minutes
  • Error Reporting•3 minutes
  • Managing performance•4 minutes
  • Lab Overview•0 minutes
  • Summary•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 6 minutes
  • Quiz: Monitoring and performance tuning•6 minutes
1 app item•Total 90 minutes
  • Lab: Deploying and maintaining your application•90 minutes

Links to module PDFs

What's included

1 reading

1 reading•Total 10 minutes
  • Course resources•10 minutes

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