Introduction to Google Cloud Platform

1. Introduction to Google Cloud Platform GDG Bingham University - 2014

2. Who am I? = Mfawa Alfred Onen a.k.a Muffy GDG Lead, Bingham University Google+: +Mfawa Alfred Onen Twitter Handle: @muffycompo Blog: http://www.maomuffy.com + GDG Bingham University - 2014

3. Who is Google? Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Google began in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as a PhD research project and quickly grew to become the largest search engine and software provider. For more historical background about Google, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google GDG Bingham University - 2014

4. What is Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud Platform is a suite of offerings that lets you build and host applications and websites, store data, and analyze data on Google's scalable infrastructure. GDG Bingham University - 2014

5. Google Cloud Platform: Product Categories The offerings under Google Cloud Platform are categorized into: • Compute • Storage • Big Data • Services GDG Bingham University - 2014

6. Google Cloud Platform: Compute Compute Engine Compute Engine is Google’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). You can run large-scale workloads on virtual machines hosted on Google's infrastructure. You can choose a virtual machine (VM) that fits your needs and gain the performance and consistency of Google’s worldwide fiber network. ** You will need to setup billing for this service Who is using this: • Institute for Systems Biology • BuildFax GDG Bingham University - 2014

7. Google Cloud Platform: Compute App Engine App Engine is Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). You can develop your application easily using built-in services that make you more productive. Deploy to a fully-managed platform and let Google carry the pager. Who is using this: • Khan Academy • Rovio GDG Bingham University - 2014

8. Google Cloud Platform: Storage Cloud SQL Cloud SQL is a fully-managed relational MySQL database. Google handles replication, patch management and database management to ensure availability and performance. ** You will need to setup billing for this service Who is using this: • CodeFutures • Daffodil GDG Bingham University - 2014

9. Google Cloud Platform: Storage Cloud Storage Cloud Storage is a durable and highly available object storage service. With global edge-caching, your users have fast access to your app’s data from any location. Google manages versioning, guarantees a strong SLA and provides a simple API that allows you to manage your data programmatically. ** You will need to setup billing for this service Who is using this: • DNAnexus • Ubisoft GDG Bingham University - 2014

10. Google Cloud Platform: Storage Cloud Datastore Cloud Datastore provides a managed, NoSQL, schemaless database for storing non-relational data. Cloud Datastore automatically scales as you need it and supports transactions as well as robust, SQL-like queries. GDG Bingham University - 2014

11. Google Cloud Platform: Big Data BigQuery BigQuery is a Google service that helps you analyze Big Data in the cloud. You can run fast, SQL-like queries against multi-terabyte datasets in seconds. Scalable and easy to use, BigQuery gives you real-time insights about your data. ** You will need to setup billing for this service Who is using this: • Interactions Marketing • redBus GDG Bingham University - 2014

12. Google Cloud Platform: Services Cloud DNS Cloud DNS is a reliable, resilient, low-latency DNS serving from Google’s worldwide network of Anycast DNS servers. You can create DNS records with an easy to use command line interface, or program against a full featured RESTfulAPI to customize the service to your specific needs. ** You will need to setup billing for this service GDG Bingham University - 2014

13. Google Cloud Platform: Services Cloud Endpoints Cloud Endpoints allows you to create RESTful services from your code and make them accessible to iOS, Android and Javascript clients. Automatically generate client libraries to make wiring up the frontend easy. Built-in critical infrastructure includes denial-of-service protection, OAuth 2.0 support and client key management. GDG Bingham University - 2014

14. Google Cloud Platform: Services Translate API Translate API allows you to create multilingual apps and translate text into other languages programmatically. Thousands of language pairs are available. ** You will need to setup billing for this service GDG Bingham University - 2014

15. Google Cloud Platform: Services Prediction API Prediction API use Google’s machine learning algorithms to analyze data and predict future outcomes using a familiar RESTful interface. You can use Prediction API directly from Google App Engine. ** You will need to setup billing for this service after six months of free use GDG Bingham University - 2014

16. Developer Tools • Google Cloud SDK (https://developers.google.com/cloud/sdk/) • Cloud Playground (https://cloud-playground.appspot.com/) • Android Studio (http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html) • Google Plugin for Eclipse (https://developers.google.com/eclipse/) GDG Bingham University - 2014

17. More Resources • Google Cloud Platform Product Page (https://cloud.google.com/products/) • GDG Bingham University Blog (http://binghamuni.edu.ng/gdg/blog) GDG Bingham University - 2014

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