Developing Applications with Cloud Functions on Google Cloud (Coursera)

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Developing Applications with Cloud Functions on Google Cloud (Coursera)

In this course, you learn about Cloud Functions, Google's serverless, fully-managed functions as a service (FaaS) product that lets you implement single-purpose function code that reponds to HTTP requests and events from your cloud infrastructure.

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What You Will Learn

  • 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.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Course Introduction
Introduction to the course content.
Introduction to Cloud Functions
An introduction to Cloud Functions, what they are, and their benefits and use cases.
Calling and Connecting Cloud Functions
Learn how to trigger and call Cloud Functions, and how to connect them in workflows and to cloud resources in your network.
Securing Cloud Functions
Secure access to Cloud Functions, learn about function identity and how to protect data used by functions.

WEEK 2
Integrating with Cloud Databases
Learn how to integrate Cloud Functions with Cloud databases.
Best Practices
Learn how to use best practices with Cloud Functions.
Course Review
Review of course content.

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