PCD study notes
- Designing cloud-native applications Professional Cloud Developer notes on choosing a compute platform, load balancers and session affinity, Memorystore caching, APIs with Apigee and API Gateway, asynchronous design, traffic splitting, application security, and data storage choices, schemas, consistency, signed URLs and BigQuery writes. 32%
- Building and testing applications Professional Cloud Developer notes on local development with emulators, Cloud Code, Cloud Shell and Cloud Workstations, AI coding tooling, Cloud Build pipelines, Artifact Registry, build provenance with Binary Authorization, and unit and integration testing. 23%
- Deploying applications Professional Cloud Developer notes on deploying to Cloud Run from source, event triggers with Eventarc and Pub/Sub, event receivers, versioning and securing APIs with Apigee, deploying to GKE, Kubernetes health probes, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, and Cloud Deploy release strategies. 24%
- Integrating Google Cloud services Professional Cloud Developer notes on connecting to Cloud SQL, Firestore, Spanner and Cloud Storage, publishing and consuming Pub/Sub messages, calling Google Cloud APIs with client libraries, batching, pagination, backoff and service accounts, and troubleshooting with Cloud Logging, Monitoring, Trace, Profiler and Error Reporting. 21%