My favorite technology from the project is undoubtedly Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It is a suite of cloud services that offers server space on virtual machines, internal networks, VPN connections, disk storage, machine language SaaS (Software as a Service) applications, and even something called TPU (Tensor Processing Units).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For our project, we utilized the server to run our web application and the DataStore database to store our data. GCP, as an all-in-one platform, truly streamlines the entire process of app development and deployment in comparison to a traditional web application development process. When our app is first created, it is automatically deployed on the server and can be accessed from anywhere in the world. GCP DataStore is a non-SQL database, which is highly flexible with dynamic data. It is easy to add a column on the go or create a new kind (table). Since the app is not the core piece of our project, we are refining the app design along the way as we gain a deeper understanding of how it is supposed to work. The flexibility of DataStore is genuinely helpful in that regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n