Google Cloud Platform in Action
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Summary Google Cloud Platform in Action teaches you to build and launch applications that scale, leveraging the many services on GCP to move faster than ever. You'll learn how to choose exactly the services that best suit your needs, and you'll be able to build applications that run on Google Cloud Platform and start more quickly, suffer fewer disasters, and require less maintenance. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Thousands of developers worldwide trust Google Cloud Platform, and for good reason. With GCP, you can host your applications on the same infrastructure that powers Search, Maps, and the other Google tools you use daily. You get rock-solid reliability, an incredible array of prebuilt services, and a cost-effective, pay-only-for-what-you-use model. This book gets you started. About the Book Google Cloud Platform in Action teaches you how to deploy scalable cloud applications on GCP. Author and Google software engineer JJ Geewax is your guide as you try everything from hosting a simple WordPress web app to commanding cloud-based AI services for computer vision and natural language processing. Along the way, you'll discover how to maximize cloud-based data storage, roll out serverless applications with Cloud Functions, and manage containers with Kubernetes. Broad, deep, and complete, this authoritative book has everything you need. What's inside The many varieties of cloud storage and computing How to make cost-effective choices Hands-on code examples Cloud-based machine learning About the Reader Written for intermediate developers. No prior cloud or GCP experience required. About the Author JJ Geewax is a software engineer at Google, focusing on Google Cloud Platform and API design. Table of Contents PART 1 - GETTING STARTED What is "cloud"? Trying it out: deploying WordPress on Google Cloud The cloud data center PART 2 - STORAGE Cloud SQL: managed relational storage Cloud Datastore: document storage Cloud Spanner: large-scale SQL Cloud Bigtable: large-scale structured data Cloud Storage: object storage PART 3 - COMPUTING Compute Engine: virtual machines Kubernetes Engine: managed Kubernetes clusters App Engine: fully managed applications Cloud Functions: serverless applications Cloud DNS: managed DNS hosting PART 4 - MACHINE LEARNING Cloud Vision: image recognition Cloud Natural Language: text analysis Cloud Speech: audio-to-text conversion Cloud Translation: multilanguage machine translation Cloud Machine Learning Engine: managed machine learning PART 5 - DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYTICS BigQuery: highly scalable data warehouse Cloud Dataflow: large-scale data processing Cloud Pub/Sub: managed event publishing Review: Great - Great book for GCP Review: an excellent intro to GCP - I work with GCP every day and this is an excellent intro to its products.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 46 Reviews |
D**G
Great
Great book for GCP
Y**Y
an excellent intro to GCP
I work with GCP every day and this is an excellent intro to its products.
B**A
Good overview
Good overview of GC
I**6
Mostly marketing material, Google Cloud is really too big for one technical book
This book is basically some high-level marketing material for the Google cloud platform. Sure, there are some examples here and there, but unless you happen to be doing the exact thing the the example covers, then this book is not much help in actually implementing a non-trivial system in the Google cloud. Given the book's title containing the phrase "In Action", this is misleading. The trouble is that the Google cloud is simply too big of a platform to try to cover the technical aspects in one book. Unless your book is 2000 pages, it's just not going to hit all the meaty bits. Consider that this book makes virtually no mention of VPC networks, which is the primary networking infrastructure that you will need to design to deploy a cloud implementation. How does this book skip VPC networks? To fulfill the promise of the title of this book, you really need 3 books, and then readers can buy the book(s) that they need. For each Google system, (e.g. VPN networks), start with the theory behind the design, and then get to the real-world implementation of typical use-cases. This book does not successfully do that for the key topics in Google cloud.
R**E
Muy buen libro
Contiene todos los topics necesarios para adentrarse al mundo de GCP
B**K
Sehr gut und spannend mit den Übungen
Nach Manning-Manier sauber strukturiert und mit dem gratis E-Book sind die Übungen elegant zu lösen und nachzuvollziehen.
C**O
Qui trop embrasse mal étreint
Voila le sujet était ambitieux : trop. C'est une bonne intro qui s'adresse plutôt au chef de projet et qui a le merite de bien détailler le coût des services (Pas sûr du coup que le livre soit encore valable l'an prochain). Par contre c'est très verbeux et peu synthétique. Du coup on s'ennuie pas mal ....
J**S
An awesome romp through the Google cloud platform and services
I had been offered some free Google cloud credits by Google, but I really did not understand their Google cloud offerings. This is a really well written book, that romps through all the major Google cloud services. I am now comfortable spinning up VM machines in the cloud, setting up persistent storage, and getting introduced to the exciting world of kubernetes. Very well recommended like a few other 'in Action' books in the series : Kubernetes in Action, Unity in Action and AWS in Action.
V**L
Really badly written book
This book is really hard to read because the author does not introduce properly concepts or software that are used on the Google Cloud. It is full of technical jargon. Not useful in anyway.
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