In this course, you learn the fundamentals of application development on Google Cloud. You learn best practices for cloud applications, and how to select compute and data options to match your application use cases. You're introduced to generative AI and how it's used to help build applications. You learn about authentication and authorization, application deployment, continuous integration and delivery, and monitoring and performance tuning for your applications running in Google Cloud. Using lectures and hands-on labs, you learn how to get started building and running applications on Google Cloud.
Developing Applications with Google Cloud: Foundations
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Developing Applications with Google Cloud: Foundations
This course is part of Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Developer Professional Certificate
Instructor: Google Cloud Training
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Beginner level
No prior experience required
7 hours to complete
3 weeks at 2 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
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.
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8 assignments
Taught in English
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This course is part of the Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Developer Professional Certificate
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There are 9 modules in this course
Welcome to "Developing Applications with Google Cloud: Foundations." This course introduces you to best practices for cloud applications and how to select compute and data options to match application use cases. You learn about Google services for continuous integration and delivery, how to deploy your applications, and how to monitor your applications as they run in Google Cloud. You also learn how Google Cloud helps you build authentication, authorization, security, and artificial intelligence into your applications. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn the fundamentals of application development in Google Cloud.
What's included
1 video
This module introduces best practices for developing applications that run in the cloud.
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2 videos1 assignment
This module introduces the different Google Cloud tools that you will use to develop your applications.
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6 videos1 assignment
This module compares the data storage and database services provided by Google Cloud.
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6 videos1 assignment1 app item
This module explains how authentication and authorization are added to your cloud applications.
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7 videos1 assignment
This module discusses how pre-trained machine learning APIs and generative AI can improve your cloud applications.
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5 videos1 assignment1 app item
This module discusses how to build and deploy applications on Google Cloud.
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4 videos1 assignment
This module discusses the compute options available for running your applications in Google Cloud.
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7 videos1 assignment
This module discusses the application use cases of the services in Google Cloud Observability.
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7 videos1 assignment1 app item
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