Google Cloud Cookbook: Practical Solutions for Building and Deploying Cloud Services, 1st Edition

Rui Costa · Drew Hodun

Jul 2022 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

About this audiobook

Get quick hands-on experience with Google Cloud. This cookbook provides a variety of self-contained recipes that show you how to use Google Cloud services for your enterprise application. Whether you're looking for practical ways to apply microservices, AI, analytics, security, or networking solutions, these recipes take you step-by-step through the process and provide discussions that explain how and why the recipes work. Ideal for system engineers and administrators, developers, network and database administrators, and data analysts, this cookbook helps you get started with Google Cloud regardless of your level of experience. Google veterans Rui Costa and Drew Hodun also cover advanced-level Google Cloud services for those who have appreciable experience with the platform. With this book, you'll learn how to get started with Google Cloud; understand the depth of services Google Cloud provides; gain hands-on experience using practical examples and labs; explore topics that include BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Kubernetes; build and run mobile and web applications on Google Cloud; examine ways to build your cloud applications for scale; build a minimum viable product (MVP) app to use in production; and learn data platform and pipeline skills.

About the author

Rui Costa has worked at Google in various roles, most recently as a learning consultant working with strategic customers and partners to create and execute their Google Cloud learning plans. He has also served as an AI coach for the Google AI Impact Challenge.

Drew Hodun has had a number of roles at Google, all customer facing and focused on machine learning applications running on Google Cloud. Most recently Drew is a learning consultant, working with large strategic customers and building engineer-to-engineer workshops to meet their toughest training needs.

Mike Chamberlain is an actor and voice-over performer, as well as an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. Along with animation and video game characters, Mike performs narration and voices promos for television. He lives with his wife and daughter in Southern California.