Example uses of Google Cloud Platform

Khan Academy

Khan Academy use Google App Engine:

• no need for a sys-admin or anyone to manage deployment
• more time to focus on app development
• deploy at least once a day, up to 10 times a day

Coca-Cola Happiness Flag

happinessflag.com (opens in a new tab)

Google Cloud guest post (opens in a new tab)

• world's largest mosaic flag croowdsourced from 200+ countries
• hybrid solution built on:
  • Google App Engine
  • Cloud Storage
  • Datastore
  • Compute Engine
• handled millions of images from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and email
• features:
  • redundancy
  • failover
  • backup
  • monitoring

Backflip Studios - Mobile Games

Google Cloud guest post (opens in a new tab)

• mobile game dev studio
• use Google App Engine and Datastore for game data
• auto scaling for handling volatile traffic
• use Cloud Storage and BigQuery for marketing teams to analyse app data