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Author Geewax, JJ, author

Title Google Cloud platform in action / JJ Geewax ; foreword by Urs Hölzle
Published Shelter Island, NY : Manning Publications Co., [2018]
©2018

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Description xxvi, 601 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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
Summary Cloud services make it easy to get infrastructure in a flexible and on-demand way. While there are many cloud services to choose from, Google Cloud Platform offers unique services that let you focus on building powerful applications. Google Cloud Services in Action teaches readers to build and launch web applications that scale while leveraging the Google Cloud Platform. Readers begin with the basics, learning how cloud services work, and the specifics of the Google Cloud Platform. The book includes hands-on step-by-step instruction on deploying applications, handling large amounts of data, and much more. By the end, readers will know how to build, leverage, and deploy cloud-based applications so web applications get started more quickly, suffer fewer disasters, and require less maintenance
Notes Includes index
Subject Google (Firm)
SUBJECT Google Apps. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008002835
Subject Cloud computing.
Computing platforms.
Author Hölzle, Urs, writer of foreword
ISBN 9781617293528 (paperback)
1617293520