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Luca Bonfanti

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Silver League

3632 points
Build Your First Agent with Agent Development Kit (ADK) Earned Jun 29, 2026 EDT
Build Agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK) Earned Jun 29, 2026 EDT
Cloud Engineering Earned Aug 5, 2021 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts Earned Jun 24, 2021 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Dec 13, 2020 EST
Baseline: Infrastructure Earned Dec 13, 2020 EST
DEPRECATED Websites and Web Applications Earned Dec 13, 2020 EST
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned Dec 2, 2020 EST
Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions Earned Mar 30, 2019 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI Earned Nov 6, 2018 EST
Websites & Web Apps Earned Jul 25, 2018 EDT
Compute & Networking Earned Jul 22, 2018 EDT
Programming Windows on AWS Earned Jul 22, 2018 EDT
Serverless Web Apps using Amazon DynamoDB Earned Jul 22, 2018 EDT
DEPRECATED Application Development - Python Earned Jun 29, 2018 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite Earned Apr 4, 2018 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned Apr 3, 2018 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials Earned Feb 8, 2018 EST

Turn your understanding of agents into practical reality by building, configuring, and running your first AI agent using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) in Gemini platform. In this hands-on course, you’ll set up a complete ADK development environment, create agents with both Python code and YAML configuration, and run them through multiple interfaces. You’ll also learn the core parameters that define agent behavior Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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Learn about how you can use Agent Development Kit (ADK) to build complex, production-ready AI agents. This course covers ADK’s open-source framework, moving from simple prompt engineering to a code-first, structured software development approach suitable for enterprise-grade, multi-agent systems. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.

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Want to scale your data analysis efforts without managing database hardware? Learn the best practices for querying and getting insights from your data warehouse with this interactive series of BigQuery labs. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.

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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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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this course is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Monitoring and Cloud Functions. You will develop valuable skills that are applicable to any Google Cloud initiative. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for these labs.

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When it comes to hosting websites and web applications, you want a framework that’s robust, fast, and secure. By choosing the Google Cloud Platform, you will have all of those needs covered. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with GCPs key infrastructure and computing services for the web. From deploying your first web app, to integrating Cloud SQL with Ruby on Rails, to mapping the NYC subway system on App Engine, you will learn all the skills needed to harness GCPs web hosting power.

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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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Containerized applications have changed the game and are here to stay. With Kubernetes, you can orchestrate containers with ease, and integration with the Google Cloud Platform is seamless. In this advanced-level quest, you will be exposed to a wide range of Kubernetes use cases and will get hands-on practice architecting solutions over the course of 8 labs. From building Slackbots with NodeJS, to deploying game servers on clusters, to running the Cloud Vision API, Kubernetes Solutions will show you first-hand how agile and powerful this container orchestration system is.

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Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are today’s hot computing topics, but these fields are quite specialized and introductory material is hard to come by. Fortunately, Google Cloud provides user-friendly services in these areas, and with this introductory-level quest, so you can take your first steps with tools like BigQuery, Cloud Speech API and Video Intelligence. Want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.

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AWS offers services that provide businesses with a flexible, highly scalable, and low-cost way to deliver their websites and web applications. In this quest, you’ll learn to work with foundational services for marketing websites on AWS.

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In this quest, you’ll learn to work with services related to Compute and Networking, including Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

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Learn how to develop applications in Microsoft Visual Studio leveraging AWS services.

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Serverless architectures allow you to build and run applications and services without needing to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure. This quest will show how to design, build, and deploy interactive serverless web applications, using a simple HTML/JavaScript web interface which uses Amazon API Gateway calls to send requests to AWS Lambda backends that query Amazon DynamoDB data.

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In this advanced-level quest, you will learn the ins and outs of developing GCP applications in Python. The first labs will walk you through the basics of environment setup and application data storage with Cloud Datastore. Once you have a handle on the fundamentals, you will get hands-on practice deploying Python applications on Kubernetes and App Engine (the latter is the same framework that powers Snapchat!) With specialized bonus labs that teach user authentication and backend service development, this quest will give you practical experience so you can start developing robust Python applications straight away.

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Learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite, an important service for generating insights into the health of your applications. It provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. These labs will give you hands-on practice with and will teach you how to monitor virtual machines, generate logs and alerts, and create custom metrics for application data. It is recommended that the students have at least earned a Badge by completing the Google Cloud Essentials. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this course, enroll in and finish the challenge lab at the end of the Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration system, and Google Kubernetes Engine was designed specifically to support managed Kubernetes deployments in Google Cloud. In this course, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications.

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In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.

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