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Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Developer Professional Certificate
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Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Developer Professional Certificate

Developer Best Practices on Google Cloud

Google Cloud Training
Hansel Miranda

Instructors: Google Cloud Training

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4.7

(459 reviews)

Intermediate level
Some related experience required
2 months
at 5 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services.

  • Learn the skills needed to be successful in a cloud developer engineering role.

  • Choose among and use application deployment environments on Google Cloud: App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Compute Engine.

  • Techniques for monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud

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A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs

Course 130 minutes4.8 (245 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Learn about the labs platform, and identify key features of a lab environment, and learn how to access the Cloud Console with specific credentials.

  • Learn about Google Cloud projects, and identify common misconceptions about them. Learn about the API library, and examine its chief features.

  • Learn how to use the Google Cloud Navigation menu to identify types of Google Cloud services

  • Learn about primitive roles, and use the Cloud IAM service to inspect actions available to specific users.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Cloud Services
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: User Accounts
Category: Cloud API
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Course 25 hours4.7 (48,556 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services.

  • Define how infrastructure is organized and controlled in Google Cloud

  • Explain how to create a basic infrastructure in Google Cloud

  • Select and use Google Cloud storage options

Skills you'll gain

Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Virtual Machines
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Cloud Storage
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Cloud Services
Category: Kubernetes
Category: Generative AI
Category: Network Infrastructure
Category: NoSQL
Category: Containerization
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Scalability
Category: Application Development

Developing Applications with Google Cloud: Foundations

Course 37 hours4.7 (13 ratings)

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.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Cloud Applications
Category: Cloud Storage
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Authentications
Category: Data Storage
Category: Containerization
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: CI/CD
Category: Application Performance Management
Category: Cloud API
Category: Application Development
Category: Generative AI
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Serverless Computing
Category: Computer Programming Tools
Category: Platform As A Service (PaaS)

What you'll learn

  • Describe the benefits and challenges of microservices-based architectures.

  • Describe the advantages of event-driven applications.

  • Identify the strengths of orchestration and choreography.

  • Use Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler to coordinate a microservices application on Google Cloud.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microservices
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Event-Driven Programming
Category: Service Oriented Architecture
Category: Systems Architecture
Category: Cloud Development
Category: Serverless Computing
Category: Scalability
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Cloud Computing Architecture
Category: Cloud Applications

What you'll learn

  • Recognize the benefits of and use cases for Cloud Run functions in modern application development.

  • Understand how to build, test and deploy Cloud Run functions.

  • Secure and connect Cloud Run functions to resources, and cloud databases.

  • Use best practices with functions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Serverless Computing
Category: Cloud Development
Category: Cloud Applications
Category: Scalability
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Application Development
Category: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Category: Encryption
Category: Operational Databases
Category: Event-Driven Programming
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Cloud API

What you'll learn

  • Define containers, container images, and package applications into container images.

  • Identify best practices used to create, test, and secure containers.

  • Understand the basics of Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Containerization
Category: Docker (Software)
Category: CI/CD
Category: Kubernetes
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Cloud Development
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Cloud Applications
Category: Infrastructure Security
Category: Secure Coding

What you'll learn

  • Understand the fundamentals of Cloud Run that include the resource model, container lifecycle, and autoscaling.

  • Develop and test applications locally before deploying to Cloud Run.

  • Use service identity and IAM with Cloud Run.

  • Integrate Cloud Run applications with Google Cloud services.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud-Based Integration
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Serverless Computing
Category: Cloud Applications
Category: Cloud Computing Architecture
Category: Continuous Deployment
Category: Application Development
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Application Security
Category: Containerization
Category: Scalability
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Cloud Development

What you'll learn

  • Discover the Gemini API and its generative AI models.

  • Access the Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision models from code.

  • Test the capabilities of the models with text, image, and video prompts from an app.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Application Development
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Generative AI
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Cloud Applications
Category: Prompt Engineering

Instructors

Google Cloud Training
Google Cloud
1,820 Courses3,380,897 learners
Hansel Miranda
Google Cloud
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