Objectives

• 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