Google Cloud Firestore: Designing and Managing Databases

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Google Cloud Firestore: Designing and Managing Databases

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Design scalable and reliable Firestore database architectures for real-world applications
Configure security, monitoring, and backup strategies for production-ready databases
Optimize performance, cost, and scalability of Firestore in Google Cloud environments

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Build practical skills to design, manage, and scale modern NoSQL databases using Google Cloud Firestore. This course introduces Firestore fundamentals, including its serverless architecture and support for real-time, scalable applications. You will learn how to analyze database capacity and usage patterns, design highly available and resilient database solutions, and implement connectivity and access management strategies.

The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and backup and recovery techniques to ensure operational reliability. You’ll explore how to optimize database cost and performance, automate routine tasks, and design data migration strategies. Through hands-on demonstrations, you will evaluate Native mode vs Datastore mode, configure security policies, and perform backup and restore operations. By the end of this course, you will be able to design, deploy, and manage production-ready Firestore databases using Google Cloud best practices. Who should take this course? Cloud engineers, database administrators, DevOps professionals, developers, and solution architects working with scalable, cloud-native applications.

Welcome to Week 1 of the course. This week focuses on understanding the architecture and reliability foundations of Google Cloud Firestore. You will begin by exploring the Firestore database overview and how it supports modern, serverless applications. You will then learn how to analyze database capacity and usage planning variables, ensuring that Firestore deployments can efficiently support application workloads. Next, you will explore how to evaluate high availability and disaster recovery strategies, helping ensure that Firestore databases remain reliable and resilient. This week also covers how applications connect to Firestore databases, along with important database connectivity and access management considerations. You will also explore how to evaluate appropriate database solutions on Google Cloud. Finally, you will learn how to design backup and recovery solutions and understand how to optimize database cost and performance in Firestore. By the end of this week, you will have a clear understanding of Firestore architecture and how to design reliable and scalable database systems in Google Cloud.

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8 videos3 readings2 assignments

8 videos Total 51 minutes

Firestore Database - Overview 5 minutes
Analyze Relevant Variables to Perform Database Capacity & Usage Planning 7 minutes
Evaluating Database for High Avaiability and Disaster Recovery 4 minutes
Determine How Applications Will Connect To The Databases 6 minutes
Evaluate appropriate Database solutions on Google Cloud 6 minutes
Database Connectivity and Access Management Considerations 8 minutes
Design Database Backup & Recovery Solutions 7 minutes
Optimize Database Cost & Performance in Firestore DB 7 minutes

3 readings Total 50 minutes

Specialization Course Introduction 15 minutes
Welcome to the Course 20 minutes
Firestore DB: Architecture and Reliability on Google Cloud - Course Overview 15 minutes

2 assignments Total 85 minutes

Database Architecture and Reliability - Practice Assignment 35 minutes
Firestore DB: Architecture and Reliability on Google Cloud - Graded Assessment 50 minutes

Welcome to Week 2 of the course. This week focuses on optimizing and scaling Firestore databases to support real-world application workloads. You will begin by learning how to automate database management tasks, improving operational efficiency and reducing manual overhead. Next, you will explore how to design and implement data migration strategies and build highly scalable and available Firestore database systems. You will also learn about cost considerations for running Firestore, helping you manage resources effectively. The week also includes practical demonstrations where you will explore Native mode vs Datastore mode, configuring security policies, and performing backup and restore operations in Firestore. By the end of this week, you will understand how to optimize, scale, and manage Firestore databases effectively in Google Cloud environments.

What's included

8 videos2 readings2 assignments

8 videos Total 37 minutes

Determine Solutions To Automate Database Tasks 2 minutes
Design and Implement Data Migration 7 minutes
Implementing Highly Scalable and Available Databases 7 minutes
Costs of Running Firestore 4 minutes
Demo: Evaluating Between Native Mode vs Datastore Mode 4 minutes
Demo: Security Policies in Firstore 7 minutes
Demo: Backup and Restore in Firestore 5 minutes
GCP Cloud Database Engineer Specialization Conclusion and Best Practices 2 minutes

2 readings Total 35 minutes

Firestore DB: Performance and Scalability on Google Cloud - Overview 15 minutes
Conclusion, What's Next, Job Roles, and Best Practices 20 minutes

2 assignments Total 85 minutes

Databases Optimizing and Scaling- Practice Assessment 35 minutes
Firestore DB: Performance and Scalability on Google Cloud - Graded Assessment 50 minutes

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