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Training and tutorials

App Dev: Developing a backend service

This lab concentrates on the backend service, putting together Pub/Sub, Natural Language, and Spanner services and APIs to collect and analyze feedback and scores from an online Quiz application.

Training

Training and tutorials

Application development

In this course, you will learn the ins and outs of developing Google Cloud applications in Python.

Use case

Use cases

Authenticating users

Apps running on Google Cloud managed platforms such as App Engine can avoid managing user authentication and session management by using Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) to control access to them.

IAP App Engine

Use case

Use cases

Handling sessions

Many apps need session handling for authentication and user preferences. This tutorial shows how to handle sessions on App Engine.

App Engine Firestore

Use case

Use cases

Background processing

Many apps need to do background processing outside of the context of a web request. This tutorial creates a web app that lets users input text to translate, and then displays a list of previous translations.

App Engine Pub/Sub Firestore

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Last updated 2026-03-04 UTC.