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The GCP Mastery Track

Four titles built around Google Cloud's actual model, from the resource hierarchy to correct streaming pipelines.

$179List price $206Save $27

Four titles, $206 separately — $179 together. You save $27. Every title is delivered DRM-free in PDF and EPUB, and updates to a new edition are included.

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What’s included

Four complete titles. Each one is also sold separately, at the price shown, if you only need part of the track.

  • Google CloudFoundational

    GCP Foundations

    Yuki Tanabe

    The on-ramp for engineers new to GCP, built around the resource hierarchy that everything else hangs from.

    $39236 pp · ISBN 978-1-959321-12-0
  • Google CloudAdvanced

    Google Cloud in Depth

    Yuki Tanabe and Sam Okonkwo

    GCP's abstractions are unusually coherent once you see the model underneath. This book makes that model explicit.

    $59386 pp · ISBN 978-1-959321-02-1
  • Google CloudPractitioner

    Data Engineering on GCP

    Priya Raghunathan and Elena Varga

    Streaming and batch pipelines on Google Cloud, with windowing and late data treated as first-class problems.

    $59368 pp · ISBN 978-1-959321-15-1
  • Multi-cloudPractitioner

    The Cost Constraint

    Aaron Whitfield

    Cost as an engineering constraint rather than a quarterly surprise, with the architectural moves that actually move the number.

    $49306 pp · ISBN 978-1-959321-08-3

Reading order

Our editors sequenced this track. You can read it in any order you like, but this is the path where each title pays for the next.

  1. Step 1: GCP Foundations

    Foundational · Google Cloud · 236 pages

    Google Cloud diverges from AWS at the first turn, so begin with the mental model: projects as the unit, the resource hierarchy, and service accounts as first-class identities.

  2. Step 2: Google Cloud in Depth

    Advanced · Google Cloud · 386 pages

    The same hierarchy taken to depth — IAM inheritance, the global VPC, and a real decision procedure for Cloud Run versus GKE versus Compute Engine.

  3. Step 3: Data Engineering on GCP

    Practitioner · Google Cloud · 368 pages

    Now the platform's strongest surface. Event time, watermarks, and BigQuery schema design build directly on the project and identity model you just internalized.

  4. Step 4: The Cost Constraint

    Practitioner · Multi-cloud · 306 pages

    Close on economics. Data gravity and egress are the decisions that quietly set the invoice, and they are made in the pipeline design above.