You're reading from Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer Exam Guide Modernize your applications using cloud-native services and best practices

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800560994

Length 382 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Google App Engine

Concepts

Cloud Native

Author (1):

Sebastian Moreno

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Welcome to the Google Cloud Developers' Guide

2. Chapter 1: Google Cloud Platform Developer Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Security Fundamentals and Best Practices

4. Section 2: Developing and Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud Platform

5. Chapter 3: Application Modernization Using Google Cloud

6. Chapter 4: Using Cloud Functions and Google App Engine

7. Chapter 5: Virtual Machines and Container Applications on Google Cloud Platform

8. Chapter 6: Managing APIs on Google Cloud Platform

9. Section 3: Storage Foundations

10. Chapter 7: Handling Unstructured Data

11. Chapter 8: Databases and Event Messages in Google Cloud

12. Chapter 9: Data Management and Database Strategies

13. Chapter 10: Optimizing Applications with Caching Strategies on Google Cloud Platform

14. Section 4: SRE for Developers

15. Chapter 11: Logging on Google Cloud Platform

16. Chapter 12: Cloud Monitoring, Tracing, and Debugging

17. Section 5: Analyzing a Sample Case Study

18. Chapter 13: HipLocal Sample Case Study Preparation

19. Chapter 14: Questions and Answers

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 8: Databases and Event Messages in Google Cloud

In this chapter, you will learn how to use Cloud SQL to create your first instance, and will review security considerations as you connect from your local environment and create your first database in Google Cloud. You will also learn how to use Cloud Firestore and make use of its dashboard, before learning how to create your first documents. Then, we'll cover how to carry out create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations in Firestore. Finally, you will learn how to decouple applications using an event message queue with Cloud Pub/Sub.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

First steps in the Cloud SQL and NoSQL world with Firestore
Differences in designing and integrating a SQL database versus a NoSQL database in your application
Understanding how to connect to a Cloud SQL instance and the Firestore dashboard
Decoupling applications using Pub/Sub
Creating, updating, and showing data...