Introduction to Google

1. USING GOOGLE’S
CLOUD
FOR DEVELOPERS
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2. Set of offerings / services for public consumption
Two target audiences
--Consumer
--Developer
Many services are in production
Some services are still in public or private beta
Free tier for most services is quite generous

3. • Google Drive – cloud storage for
IaaS – infrastructure (or Google applications
storage) as a service • Google Fiber – very limited beta in
Kansas City, KS only at this time
PaaS – platform as a • N/A
service
SaaS – storage (or • Google Docs – cloud-based word
processing, spreadsheets,
software) as a service presentations and more
• Google Play – application store
Other cloud services • YouTube – video hosting

4. IaaS • Scalable compute via Google Compute Engine
• Scalable managed compute via Google App
PaaS Engine
• Scalable storage via many choices
SaaS • RDBMS, NoSQL, more…
• Big Query – query as a service
• Prediction API – data mining as a service
Other • Translation API – translation as a service
• Google Maps – mapping as a service
• Google Hangouts API – collaboration applications

5. Compute that Interface via
auto-scales • Web Console
(VMs) Currently Currently in (limited)
• Competes with
only Linux Invite-only • Python client
AWS EC2 and VMs Beta • APIs
Windows Azure
VMs (beta)

6. Other
Storage Services
App

7. What Why
• Google’s cloud hosting and • Easy and free to try it out
storage environment • Interesting feature set
• Java or Python are supported • Automatic compute scaling
• NoSQL (High-Replication • Flexibility on data storage /
Datastore) and/or mySQL queries
supported • Authentication choices
• Access to other Google APIs

8. Browser-based
Different types of account management consoles
for different types of • GAE
• GCE
services • BigQuery
• Storage
• Other APIs
Direct API access Command-line tools

9. DEMO
UNDERSTANDING GOOGLE CLOUD ACCOUNTS

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16. DEMO
WORKING WITH THE WEB CONSOLE TOOLS

17. Java or Python
Language SDK and IDE
GAE SDK
GAE tools for IDE
Other Google Web API
tools
GWT tools (optional)
Android tools (optional)

18. • Download Eclipse
• Get GAE SDK
(access to APIs)
• Get GAE plug-in for
Eclipse

19. • Enable other available APIs, partial list shown
below
• Use the GWT (Google Web Toolkit)

20. • GAE SDK
• GAE Eclipse plug-in
• GAE developer
account
• 5 GB storage free

21. DEMO
CREATING AND TESTING ‘HELLO GOOGLE CLOUD’ IN ECLIPSE

23. DEMO
DEPLOYING TO GAE AND USING THE WEB ADMIN CONSOLE

24. • Create up to 10 applications
• Click application to view detailed information about each
instance

26. • Updating current versions
• Using appcfg

27. Integrate
with Google
Integrate Play
with
Other Android
Google APIs applications
Other GAE
services • Prediction
Data Storage • Translation
Options • Caching
• Maps
• routing
• Relational
• non-
relational
• Google
Drive
• more

28. DEMO
USING GOOGLE’S DEVELOPER RESOURCES

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