Developing Applications with Google Cloud (DAGCP) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Best Practices for Application Development
  • Code and environment management
  • Design and development of secure, scalable, reliable, loosely coupled application components and microservices
  • Continuous integration and delivery
  • Re-architecting applications for the cloud
Module 2: Google Cloud Client Libraries, Google Cloud SDK, and Google Firebase SDK
  • How to set up and use Google Cloud Client Libraries, Google Cloud SDK, and Google Firebase SDK
  • Lab: Set up Google Client Libraries, Google Cloud SDK, and Firebase SDK on a Linux instance and set up application credentials
Module 3: Overview of Data Storage Options
  • Overview of options to store application data
  • Use cases for Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Datastore, Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud SQL, and Cloud Spanner
Module 4: Best Practices for Using Google Cloud Datastore
  • Best practices related to the following:
    • Queries
    • Built-in and composite indexes
    • Inserting and deleting data (batch operations)
    • Transactions
    • Error handling
  • Bulk-loading data into Cloud Datastore by using Google Cloud Dataflow
  • Lab: Store application data in Cloud Datastore
Module 5: Performing Operations on Buckets and Objects
  • Operations that can be performed on buckets and objects
  • Consistency model
  • Error handling
Module 6: Best Practices for Using Google Cloud Storage
  • Naming buckets for static websites and other uses
  • Naming objects (from an access distribution perspective)
  • Performance considerations
  • Setting up and debugging a CORS configuration on a bucket
  • Lab: Store files in Cloud Storage
Module 7: Handling Authentication and Authorization
  • Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and service accounts
  • User authentication by using Firebase Authentication
  • User authentication and authorization by using Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy
  • Lab: Authenticate users by using Firebase Authentication
Module 8: Using Google Cloud Pub/Sub to Integrate Components of Your Application
  • Topics, publishers, and subscribers
  • Pull and push subscriptions
  • Use cases for Cloud Pub/Sub
  • Lab: Develop a backend service to process messages in a message queue
Module 9: Adding Intelligence to Your Application
  • Overview of pre-trained machine learning APIs such as Cloud Vision API and Cloud Natural Language Processing API
Module 10: Using Google Cloud Functions for Event-Driven Processing
  • Key concepts such as triggers, background functions, HTTP functions
  • Use cases
  • Developing and deploying functions
  • Logging, error reporting, and monitoring
Module 11: Managing APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints
  • Open API deployment configuration
  • Lab: Deploy an API for your application
Module 12: Deploying an Application by Using Google Cloud Cloud Build, Google Cloud Container Registry, and Google Cloud Deployment Manager
  • Creating and storing container images
  • Repeatable deployments with deployment configuration and templates
  • Lab: Use Deployment Manager to deploy a web application into Google App Engine flexible environment test and production environments
Module 13: Execution Environments for Your Application
  • Considerations for choosing an execution environment for your application or service:
    • Google Compute Engine
    • Kubernetes Engine
    • App Engine flexible environment
    • Cloud Functions
    • Cloud Dataflow
  • Lab: Deploying your application on App Engine flexible environment
Module 14: Debugging, Monitoring, and Tuning Performance by Using Google Stackdriver
  • Stackdriver Debugger
  • Stackdriver Error Reporting
  • Lab: Debugging an application error by using Stackdriver Debugger and Error Reporting
  • Stackdriver Logging
  • Key concepts related to Stackdriver Trace and Stackdriver Monitoring. Lab: Use Stackdriver Monitoring and Stackdriver Trace to trace a request across services, observe, and optimize performance