Google Cloud Cookbook

Preface

Building applications has never been easier or more exciting than in the era of the public cloud. Engineers can build faster, better, and bigger with the myriad of cloud tools and providers available to them. As organizations continue adopting the cloud to run their workloads, engineers need to learn new skills continually to run these workloads successfully in the cloud. This book provides you with recipes that we feel will help you get started running your workloads on Google Cloud.

Who Should Read This Book

If you are a software engineer, cloud architect, data scientist, site reliability engineer, or sysadmin, and you’re working with Google Cloud, this book is for you. As an engineer working with Google Cloud services, you need to understand all the services available to you, including how to leverage them in your code, scripts, and solutions. If you are new to the cloud or moving from another cloud provider, the recipes and code samples within will quickly familiarize you with building on Google Cloud. More experienced Google Cloud engineers will still benefit from some of the more advanced techniques at the end of every chapter or from chapters covering an area less familiar to them. These recipes were created and selected from years of experience getting Google Cloud customers up and running quickly.

Why I Wrote This Book

Rui Costa

Before joining Google, I worked as a consultant where I helped organizations adopt cloud services. As a consultant, I worked with ...