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03. Database Backend

Goal: Start using a NoSQL data store in applications To that end, do as much as you can of the following:

Hands-on

1. Review Google’s data store options

   • Use this guide: https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/

2. Follow the Google Cloud Datastore example here*.

3. Revisit the Shopping List from Week 4

   • Store the JSON data in a data store
   • Use Google’s Cloud Datastore: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/
   • You will need to decide on suitable Entity Groups.

4. Add images to the database

   • Store links in the JSON documents
   • Store the images in a separate data store
   • Use Google’s Cloud Storage: https://cloud.google.com/storage/

   Note: You can have a look at the Google Bookshelf tutorial, which follows a similar strategy on how to split metadata and binary data.

*Based on Francesc's go-web-workshop.