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In this course, you will learn the ins and outs of developing Google Cloud applications in Python.
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Authenticating users
Apps running on Google Cloud managed platforms such as App Engine can avoid managing user authentication and session management by using Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) to control access to them.
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Many apps need to do background processing outside of the context of a web request. This tutorial creates a web app that lets users input text to translate, and then displays a list of previous translations.
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