Santosh Krishnan

Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine is an infrastructure service provided as part of the Google Cloud Platform. Compute Engine is made up of three major components: virtual machines, persistent disks, and networks. It is available at several Google datacenters worldwide and is provided exclusively on an on-demand basis. This means Compute Engine neither charges any upfront fees for deployment nor locks down the customer. At the same time, Compute Engine provides steep discounts for sustained use. These sustained-use discounts, without any upfront subscription fees, are an industry first; this pricing innovation shows that Google innovates outside of technology as well.

Google Cloud Dataflow

A few times in this book, we have introduced chapters by reflecting on how much technology has changed over the past few years and how that has shaped our understanding of concepts like security, information channels, mobility, and social exchange. But possibly one of the most groundbreaking advances in recent years is related to how we understand, analyze, and process large subsets of information. The advances in processing power have set the perfect stage for giant amounts of information to be generated. Regrettably, in the early days, this information generally was not compatible or accessible; and when it was, the computational needs required to work with it were out of reach for most individuals and entities.

Google Cloud SQL

Google Cloud SQL is a MySQL database service that is hosted on the Google Cloud Platform and fully managed by Google Inc. MySQL databases that are hosted on Cloud SQL can be accessed by applications hosted on Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine apps, and external applications and users outside of the Google Cloud Platform.

Google Cloud Datastore

Google Cloud Datastore is a fully managed, schema-less database for storing nonrelational data. Cloud Datastore automatically scales with your users and supports ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated, durable) transactions, high availability of reads and writes, strong consistency for reads and ancestor queries, and eventual consistency for all other queries.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Some of us still remember the days when it was exciting to open a browser and see how content was loaded and shown on the screen. You could not be sure what you were going to see or why you were receiving the information, but it was thrilling despite the amount you were paying for an hour of access to the Internet.

Building Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform

Building Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform shows you how to take advantage of the Google Cloud Platform technologies to build all kinds of cloud-hosted software and services for both public and private consumption. Whether you need a simple virtual server to run your legacy application or you need to architect a sophisticated high-traffic web application, Cloud Platform provides all the tools and products required to create innovative applications and a robust infrastructure to manage them. Using this book as your compass, you can navigate your way through the Google Cloud Platform and turn your ideas into reality. The authors, both Google Developer Experts in Google Cloud Platform, systematically introduce various Cloud Platform products one at a time and discuss their strengths and scenarios where they are a suitable fit. But rather than a manual-like “tell all” approach, the emphasis is on how to Get Things Done so that you get up to speed with Google Cloud Platform as quickly as possible. You will learn how to use the following technologies, among others:

Google App Engine

Google App Engine (GAE) is commonly defined as a platform as a service (PaaS) part of Google Cloud Platform. The definition of such a service is based on the level of resources managed by the platform. Unlike infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or back end as a service (BaaS)—which primarily manage maintenance tasks such as hardware replacement—with a service like App Engine you do not need to care of things like load balancing, instance management or scaling, and so on. Think of it from a duty standpoint. When using IaaS, your responsibility begins with the operating system, whereas in PaaS, your responsibility starts with the code for your application.

Using Google APIs

Virtually all of Google’s products are built according to an API-first philosophy. This approach encompasses both Cloud Platform products like Google Compute Engine and consumer-facing products like Google Maps. On Google Cloud Platform, although Google makes it easy to consume products using either the web-based Developers Console or the console-based gcloud tool, the real power of the platform is best appreciated by using the core building blocks: the product APIs. In addition, certain developer-targeted products are made available solely through APIs.

Google Cloud Endpoints

The production and sale of electronic devices connected to the Internet has exploded in recent years. In 2014, enough mobile devices were sold to connect one sixth of the world’s population. And this is just the beginning. Big players in the market are working on alternatives to meet the needs of communities and countries where, due to socioeconomic factors, the penetration of mobile devices is still low. Most importantly, it is not the number but the diversity of devices we are seeing that demonstrates the need to connect them all in an organized way. Intelligent houses, cars, home automation systems, sensor boards, and the rest of the spectrum covered by the term Internet of things are generating huge amounts of information about our world. But who is going to orchestrate all that?

Google Cloud DNS

The domain name system (DNS) is a global hierarchical distributed database that stores the mapping between a domain name and an IP address or other associated details such as the hostname. This mapping is called a, and associated records are stored in a . From this perspective, the DNS zone can be seen as a container for DNS records that have the same suffix in a domain name. For example, db.cloudplatformbook.com and web.cloudplatformbook.com are two DNS records in the cloudplatformbook.com DNS Zone.