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Guides

Reference

Resources

Training and tutorials

Try Node.js flexible environment tutorials, courses, and self-paced training from Google Cloud Skills Boost.

Training

Google Cloud fundamentals: core infrastructure

This course uses lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to give you an overview of Google Cloud products and services so that you can learn the value of Google Cloud and how to incorporate cloud-based solutions into your business strategies.

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Training

Developing apps with Google Cloud

Learn how to design, develop, and deploy applications that seamlessly integrate components from the Google Cloud ecosystem. This course uses lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to show you how to use Google Cloud services and pre-trained machine learning APIs to build secure, scalable, and intelligent cloud-native applications.

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Codelab

Create a web frontend

In this code lab, you create a web frontend on Google App Engine that lets users upload pictures from the web application and browse the uploaded pictures and thumbnails.

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Use cases

Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

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Serving websites on Google Cloud

Determine which platform is right for your application and explore the options ranging from static sites to container based applications.

Options Compute Scaling

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Best practice

Build scalable and resilient apps

Learn patterns and practices for creating apps that are resilient and scalable, two essential goals of many modern architecture exercises. A well-designed app scales up and down as demand increases and decreases, and is resilient enough to withstand service disruptions.

Scaling Resilience Design

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Use case

Automating malware scanning for documents uploaded to Cloud Storage

This tutorial shows you how to build an event-driven pipeline that can help you automate the evaluation of documents for malicious code.

Storage Docker Security

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Use case

Managing infrastructure as code with Terraform, Cloud Build, and GitOps

This tutorial explains how to manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and Cloud Build using the popular GitOps methodology.

DevOps Terraform CI/CD

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Code samples

Dive into coding with examples that demonstrate how to use and connect Google Cloud services.

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Basic sample app

The sample app that corresponds to the Building an App tutorial

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Cloud Storage sample

Demonstrates how to use Google Cloud Storage on Google App Engine standard environment in Node.js

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Send & receive Pub/Sub messages

Samples that demonstrate how to send and receive Pub/Sub messages.

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Connecting to Cloud SQL

Sample code to connect to Cloud SQL from Node.js on App Engine

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Datastore samples

Store and retrieve data from Datastore for your Node.js app on App Engine

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SendGrid sample

Send email from your App using SendGrid

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Analytics from Node.js

Send Google Analytics events from your application running on App Engine using Node.js

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Serving static files

Serving static files from your application running on App Engine using Node.js

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Videos