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Mark Taratynov

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11702 points
Build intelligent agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK) Earned Feb 18, 2026 EST
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned Jan 2, 2026 EST
Observability in Google Cloud Earned Dec 29, 2025 EST
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned Dec 22, 2025 EST
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Earned Dec 17, 2025 EST
Select a Google Cloud Database for Your Applications Earned Dec 12, 2025 EST
Develop Your Google Cloud Network Earned Dec 10, 2025 EST
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Dec 9, 2025 EST
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services Earned Dec 9, 2025 EST
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned Nov 24, 2025 EST
Developing Applications with Cloud Run on Google Cloud: Fundamentals Earned Nov 14, 2025 EST
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned Nov 11, 2025 EST
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey Earned Nov 10, 2025 EST
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Earned Jul 17, 2025 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Jul 5, 2025 EDT

This structured course is for developers interested in building intelligent agents using the Agent Development Kit (ADK). It combines hands-on experience, core concepts, and practical application, to provide a comprehensive guide to using ADK. You can also join our community of Google Cloud experts and peers to ask questions, collaborate on answers, and connect with the Googlers making the products you use every day.

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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.

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Welcome to Observability in Google Cloud, the second part of a two-part course series. It is suggested that you complete part 1, Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud, prior to taking this course. This course is all about application performance management tools, including Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler.

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Welcome to the two-part course on Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud. The core operations tools in Google Cloud break down into two major categories. The operations-focused components and the application performance management tools. This course, Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud, covers the operations-focused components including Logging, Monitoring, and Service Monitoring. After taking this course, it is suggested that you complete part 2, Observability in Google Cloud, to learn about the available application performance management tools.

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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.

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In this course, you learn to analyze and choose the right database for your needs, to effectively develop applications on Google Cloud. You explore relational and NoSQL databases, dive into Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and Spanner, and learn how to align database strengths with your application requirements, including those of generative AI. Gain hands-on experience configuring Vector Search and migrating applications to the cloud.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM roles and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, write SQL queries, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.

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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.

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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.

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This course introduces the Cloud Run serverless platform for running applications. In this course, you learn about the fundamentals of Cloud Run, its resource model and the container lifecycle. You learn about service identities, how to control access to services, and how to develop and test your application locally before deploying it to Cloud Run. The course also teaches you how to integrate with other services on Google Cloud so you can build full-featured applications.

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Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud. The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.

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This course helps you structure your preparation for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam. You will learn about the Google Cloud domains covered by the exam and how to create a study plan to improve your domain knowledge.

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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, virtual machines and applications services. You will learn how to use the Google Cloud through the console and Cloud Shell. You'll also learn about the role of a cloud architect, approaches to infrastructure design, and virtual networking configuration with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, and Firewall rules.

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.

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