Summary

In this chapter, we described what a developer does, according to traditional development workflows, the associated risks, and how modern development workflows in general and cloud development mitigate or get rid of those risks. Then, we enumerated the benefits of developing on Google Cloud and introduced the different elements of the toolbox that the platform offers to help professional developers like you and me be more productive. Finally, we described the different migration and development paths that you can take when you start developing or migrating an existing application to Google Cloud, remarking on how Anthos can help you build and manage hybrid or multicloud environments and take software modernization to the ultimate level.

The next chapter will focus on how you can use Google Cloud to write code, deploy and run it, set up logging, and monitor, profile, and troubleshoot your code, proving that Google Cloud is an amazing platform to cover all your needs as a...