Developing Applications with Google Cloud

• 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.

Application developers, architects, and cloud engineers.

• Programming experience is recommended.
• Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system
  environments is helpful.

Module 1: Best Practices for Cloud Application Development

Topics

• This module introduces the various Google Cloud tools you will use to develop
  your applications.

Objectives

• Discuss how the Google Cloud SDK lets you interact with Google Cloud services.
• Describe how Cloud Client Libraries can be used in your applications.
• Discuss how Cloud Code helps developers create cloud applications on Google Cloud.

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 2: Getting Started with Google Cloud Development

Topics

• This module introduces the various Google Cloud tools you will use to develop your applications.

Objectives

• Discuss how the Google Cloud SDK lets you interact with Google Cloud services.
• Describe how Cloud Client Libraries can be used in your applications.
• Discuss how Cloud Code helps developers create cloud applications on Google Cloud.

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 3: Data Storage Options

Topics

• This module compares the data storage and database services provided by Google Cloud.

Objectives

• Understand how to choose the appropriate data storage option for application use cases.
• Use Firestore to store document-based application data.
• Use Cloud Storage to store unstructured data.

Activities

• 1 lab, 1 quiz

Module 4: Handling Authentication and Authorization

Topics

• This module explains how authentication and authorization are added to your cloud applications.

Objectives

• Discuss how Identity-Aware Proxy authenticates application users.
• Describe the use of federated identity for applications in Google Cloud.
• Describe how to authenticate your application to Google Cloud APIs based on how your application is deployed.
• Use authentication and authorization to secure an application.

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 5: Adding Intelligence to Your Application

Topics

• This module discusses how pretrained machine learning APIs and generative AI can improve your cloud applications.

Objectives

• Describe how pretrained machine learning APIs can be called from applications.
• Differentiate the use cases for Google Cloud’s pretrained machine learning APIs.
• Use a Google Cloud pretrained machine-learning API in an application.

Activities

• 1 lab, 1 quiz

Module 6: Deploying Applications

Topics

• This module discusses how to build and deploy applications on Google Cloud.

Objectives

• Discuss the features of a continuous integration and delivery pipeline.
• Describe how to build and store application container images.
• Create a container image by using Cloud Build.

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 7: Compute Options for Your Application

Topics

• This module discusses the compute options available for running your applications in Google Cloud.

Objectives

• Describe use cases for the different compute options used for running applications on Google Cloud.
• Differentiate the benefits of different compute options on Google Cloud.

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 8: Monitoring and Performance Tuning

Topics

• This module discusses the application use cases of the services in Google Cloud’s operations suite.

Objectives

• Recognize the four golden signals.
• Describe benefits of the services in Google Cloud’s operations suite.

Activities

• 1 lab, 1 quiz

Module 9: Introduction to Microservices

Topics

• This module introduces you to microservices and discusses the benefits and challenges of using a microservices architecture for your applications.

Objectives

• Describe the differences between monolithic applications, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and microservices.
• Describe the benefits and challenges of microservice-based architectures.

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 10: Event-Driven Applications

Topics

• This module introduces events and event-driven applications and discusses the benefits of choosing an event-driven architecture for your microservices applications.

Objectives

• List the characteristics of an event.
• Describe the advantages of event-driven applications.

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 11: Choreography and Orchestration

Topics

• This module introduces two effective patterns for inter-service communication: choreography and orchestration. Eventarc uses the choreography pattern, which allows independent services to perform tasks when events are received. Workflows uses orchestration, and acts as a central orchestrator of the interactions between the services. You learn how Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler can be used to build powerful microservices applications on Google Cloud.

Objectives

• Understand how Pub/Sub and Eventarc can be used to connect services by using the choreography pattern.
• Explain the benefits of using CloudEvents for event metadata.
• Understand how Workflows can be used to orchestrate services.
• Differentiate the use cases for choreography and orchestration.
• Use Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler to coordinate a microservices application on Google Cloud.

Activities

• 1 lab, 1 quiz

Module 12: Introduction to Cloud Functions

Topics

• An introduction to Cloud Functions
• Benefits and use cases
• Types of Cloud Functions and language runtimes

Objectives

• Define Cloud Functions.
• Identify the use cases, features, and benefits of Cloud Functions.
• Distinguish the types of Cloud Functions, and identify the supported languages for developing functions.
• Develop and deploy a Cloud Function using the Google Cloud console and gcloud CLI.

Activities

• 1 lab, 1 quiz

Module 13: Calling and Connecting Cloud Functions

Topics

• Cloud Functions triggers
• Connecting Cloud Functions

Objectives

• Understand the different kinds of triggers available, and learn how to specify triggers for functions.
• Connect services and functions with workflows.
• Connect functions to resources in a VPC network

Activities

• 1 lab, 1 quiz

Module 14: Securing Cloud Functions

Topics

• Accessing and authenticating to functions
• Protecting functions and data

Objectives

• Secure Cloud Functions with identity and network-based access controls.
• Understand function identity.
• Understand how to authenticate and authorize access to functions for invocation and administration.
• Protect functions and related data with encryption keys.

Activities

• 1 quiz

Module 15: Integrating with Cloud Databases

Topics

• Integrate Cloud Functions with cloud databases
• Use secrets with Cloud Functions

Objectives

• Integrate Cloud Functions with cloud databases such as Firestore, and Memorystore.
• Use secrets with Cloud Functions.
• Use environment variables with Cloud Functions.

Activities

• 1 lab, 1 quiz

Module 16: Best Practices

Topics

• Cloud Functions best practices

Objectives

• Use best practices when developing and implementing Cloud Functions.
• Understand how to retry event-driven Cloud Functions on failure.

Activities

• 1 quiz