Course Overview

In this 3-day instructor-led course, you learn the fundamentals of application development on Google Cloud. You learn best practices for designing cloud applications, and how to choose compute and data options for your apps. You learn about authentication and authorization, generative AI for developers, and continuous integration and delivery for your apps running in Google Cloud. You learn about event-based applications and the use of service orchestration and choreography to coordinate microservices. You learn about Cloud Functions, which allows you to implement single-purpose functions that respond to HTTP requests and process events within your cloud infrastructure.

Who Should Attend

Application developers, architects, and cloud engineers.

Course Objectives

• 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.
• Describe the benefits and challenges of microservice-based architectures.
• Describe the advantages of event-driven applications.
• Identify the strengths of orchestration and choreography.
• Use Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler to coordinate a microservices application on Google Cloud.
• Recognize the benefits of and use cases for Cloud Functions in modern application development.
• Understand how to build, test, and deploy Cloud Functions.
• Secure and connect Cloud Functions to resources and cloud databases.
• Use best practices with Cloud Functions.

Course Outline