Google Cloud Platform

Compute
• Compute Engine VMs on Google's infrastructure
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) best managed K8s, Autopilot mode
• Cloud Run fully managed containers, scales to zero
• App Engine PaaS platform, standard and flexible environments
• Cloud Functions event-driven serverless functions

Data & Analytics
• BigQuery serverless, petabyte-scale SQL analytics. Query 1TB in seconds.
• Pub/Sub global messaging (like Kafka as a service)
• Dataflow managed Apache Beam for batch and streaming pipelines
• Looker BI and data visualization platform

AI & ML
• Vertex AI unified ML platform: train, deploy, and monitor models
• Gemini API Google's frontier LLM
• Vision AI, Speech-to-Text, Translation API pre-built AI APIs
• Document AI extract structured data from documents

Storage & Databases
• Cloud Storage object storage (like S3)
• Cloud SQL managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server
• Cloud Spanner globally distributed relational DB (unlimited scale)
• Firestore serverless document database (like DynamoDB)
• Bigtable managed HBase, time-series at massive scale

-- BigQuery: analyze massive datasets with standard SQL
SELECT
  DATE_TRUNC(order_date, MONTH) AS month,
  SUM(total_amount) AS revenue,
  COUNT(DISTINCT customer_id) AS customers,
  AVG(total_amount) AS avg_order
FROM `my-project.sales.orders`
WHERE order_date BETWEEN '2024-01-01' AND '2024-12-31'
  AND status = 'completed'
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1;

-- Query public datasets (free) SELECT word, SUM(word_count) AS count FROM bigquery-public-data.samples.shakespeare GROUP BY word ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 10; ```

# Cloud Run service (serverless containers)
# Deploy: gcloud run deploy my-api --source . --region us-central1

# cloudbuild.yaml steps: - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker' args: ['build', '-t', 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/my-api:$COMMIT_SHA', '.'] - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker' args: ['push', 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/my-api:$COMMIT_SHA'] - name: 'gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/cloud-sdk' args: ['run', 'deploy', 'my-api', '--image', 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/my-api:$COMMIT_SHA', '--region', 'us-central1', '--platform', 'managed'] ```