Part 3: Extending Your Code – Using Google Cloud Services and Public APIs

Another of the benefits of Google Cloud is that it provides a lot of products and services, which we can integrate with our existing applications and services to add new and powerful features just by adding a few lines of code.

In this part of the book, we will first cover how networking works in Google Cloud since it’s a very important part of cloud architecture, and then we will describe different advanced services that we can use to make our code even better, including storage and databases, translation and text-to-speech services, and even artificial intelligence-based APIs, which allow us to easily analyze our media assets to understand their contents, opening the door to a lot of new and exciting applications.

This part contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 8, Making the Best of Google Cloud Networking
• Chapter 9, Time-Saving Google Cloud Services
• Chapter 10, Extending...