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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

You're reading from   Google Cloud Platform for Developers Build highly scalable cloud solutions with the power of Google Cloud Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837675
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ted Hunter Ted Hunter
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Steven Porter Steven Porter
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Preface 1. Why GCP? FREE CHAPTER 2. The Google Cloud Console 3. APIs, CLIs, IAM, and Billing 4. Google App Engine 5. Google Kubernetes Engine 6. Google Cloud Functions 7. Google Compute Engine 8. NoSQL with Datastore and Bigtable 9. Relational Data with Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner 10. Google Cloud Storage 11. Stackdriver 12. Change Management 13. GCP Networking for Developers 14. Messaging with Pub/Sub and IoT Core 15. Integrating with Big Data Solutions on GCP 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Big data and Google Cloud Platform

One of the major drivers towards the public cloud model is that public clouds drastically reduce both the upfront infrastructure and long-term operational cost of projects. This is largely due to the cost advantage public clouds gain by achieving economies of scale. One side effect of achieving economies of scale is that otherwise infeasible solutions become economically sound. As we saw in Chapter 10, Google Cloud Storage, one space this holds especially true is in data storage solutions, such as Google's ability to provide very cheap, always-online, nearline, and coldline storage. More generally, by lowering the cost of data storage, customers witness a shift in the cost-to-value ratio of storing large amounts of data. As a result, developers and analysts have access to much richer datasets, enabling very powerful data analysis and machine...

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