Questions tagged [google-cloud-platform]
Google Cloud Platform provides cloud computing services that let you build applications and websites, store data, and analyze data on Google's infrastructure.
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What is the difference between Google App Engine and Google Compute Engine?
I was wondering what the difference between App Engine & Compute Engine are. Can anyone explain the difference to me?
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How to change the project in GCP using CLI commands
How can I change the current running project to another project in GCP (Google Cloud Platform) account using cli commands other than using gcloud init manually?
gcloud projects list will list the ...
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What's the difference between Cloud Firestore and the Firebase Realtime Database?
Google just released Cloud Firestore, their new Document Database for apps.
I have been reading the documentation but I don't see a lot of differences between Firestore and Firebase DB.
The main ...
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What is Firebase Firestore 'Reference' data type good for?
I'm just exploring the new Firebase Firestore and it contains a data type called reference. It is not clear to me what this does.
Is it like foreign key?
Can it be used to point to a collection ...
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How to open a specific port such as 9090 in Google Compute Engine
I have 2 Google Compute Engine instances and I want to open port 9090 in both the instances. I think we need to add some firewall rules.
Can you tell me how can I do that?
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Enabling CORS in Cloud Functions for Firebase
I'm currently learning how to use new Cloud Functions for Firebase and the problem I'm having is that I can't access the function I wrote through an AJAX request. I get the "No 'Access-Control-...
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How to use Google App Engine with my own naked domain (not subdomain)?
After hours of reading about and experimenting with DNS records I can access my Google App Engine app via these URLs:
myappid.appspot.com
www.myappid.myowndomain.example
What does not work:
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How do I structure Cloud Functions for Firebase to deploy multiple functions from multiple files?
I would like to create multiple Cloud Functions for Firebase and deploy them all at the same time from one project. I would also like to separate each function into a separate file. Currently I can ...
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gcloud command not found - while installing Google Cloud SDK
I am on a mac and am trying to install the Google Cloud SDK (including the gcloud command line utility) using this command in terminal
curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash
as seen at https://...
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Google Firestore - How to get several documents by multiple ids in one round-trip?
I am wondering if it's possible to get multiple documents by a list of ids in one round trip (network call) to the Firestore database.
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How to think in data stores instead of databases?
As an example, Google App Engine uses Google Datastore, not a standard database, to store data. Does anybody have any tips for using Google Datastore instead of databases? It seems I've trained my ...
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Execution failed for task ':app:mapDebugSourceSetPaths'. > Error while evaluating property 'extraGeneratedResDir' of task
I've checked this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/34834772/13519865
It tells us to remove this line
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
Removing the line as asked completes the build, ...
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Pricing of Google App Engine Flexible env, a $500 lesson
I followed the Nodejs on App Engine Flexible env tutorial:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/nodejs/create-app
Having successfully deployed and tested the tutorial, I changed the code ...
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Choosing Java vs Python on Google App Engine
Currently Google App Engine supports both Python & Java. Java support is less mature. However, Java seems to have a longer list of libraries and especially support for Java bytecode regardless of ...
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Composer require branch name
For example I want to require:
{
"repositories": [
{
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client.git"
}
],
"require": {
"google/apiclient": "...
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