In this chapter, we will explore two data storage services from the Google Cloud platform, Google Storage, for files, and Google SQL, for structured data. Google Storage is a file-hosting service that allows you to store files in the cloud. Quite simple and straightforward, it is very similar to the Amazon S3 service. To go beyond basic usage, we will look into some advanced subjects, such as signed-URLs, collaboration bucket settings, optimizing upload speeds, and transferring big datasets
Google SQL is Google's simple SQL database service. Less developed at the moment than Amazon SQL services in terms of types of SQLs, it comes with MySQL as the main database. A beta version of Postgre is also available. We will look at the differences between the two in terms of respective functionalities.
Making services talk to one another, or more precisely, allowing...
