Google Cloud Platform is one of the avenues to
cloud computing. You can use Google's data centers and Google's libraries to
supercharge your business processes, software applications, and cloud development and management.
Here are 10 popular APIs that can help make
you more effective and efficient:
1.
Cloud Vision API
Through machine learning models, this API
allows for understanding content within an image. You can analyze an image and
extract content. The library comes loaded with label detection, explicit
content detection, face detection, logo detection, landmark detection, and
image attributes.
2.
Cloud Natural Language API
Cloud Natural Language is exactly what it
sounds like -- it's natural language technology that
helps developers with things like sentiment analysis (e.g. whether a piece of
written text has a generally positive or negative tone) through deep learning
models. This can help build better user experiences and gauge sentiment about a
product or service.
3.
Cloud Speech API
Cloud Speech is speech recognition, allowing
developers to easily integrate speech-to-text software into their applications.
It's powered by machine learning, so it's more dynamic and reliable than old
speech recognition software and supports over one hundred languages.
Transcription can be done in real-time or can be done with an audio upload.
4.
Kubernetes Engine API
The Kubernetes Engine is useful for
developers making containerized applications. Kubernetes is an open source
technology for container-based apps and with the Kubernetes Engine, it's
simpler to integrate Kubernetes into Google Cloud Platform projects.
With Google's Kubernetes Engine API, you won't
need to install or manage your Kubernetes clusters, you can do it easily and
efficiently with a great deal of built-in functionality. You can even control
your environment with a Kubernetes Engine dashboard within the Google Cloud
Developer Console.
5.
Dialog Flow API
Dialog Flow is a library you can use that
helps you create natural conversational experiences or chatbots. Using machine
learning, bots can understand what users are saying or typing and can formulate
accurate and useful responses. The API comes with over thirty pre-built chatbot
profiles in nearly twenty languages.
6.
Cloud Translation API
The Google Cloud Translation API lets
developers integrate Google Translate into their own websites and robust web apps with over 100
supported languages. Translation is fast and dynamic because it uses a deep
learning framework called Neural Machine Translation. It's simple to integrate
through REST API and can scale rapidly.
7.
Cloud Machine Learning Engine
The Cloud Machine Learning Engine enables you
to create and use machine learning models. The Machine Learning Engine allows
developers to make better machine learning models and deploy them into
production using TensorFlow.
8.
Cloud Pub/Sub API
Cloud Pub/Sub allows for asynchronous
messaging across applications. This API is built as a foundation for
event-driven computing systems. It delivers data to Cloud Dataflow and BigQuery
to help you better manage data. It helps lower code complexity and helps handle
user requests. It's best for middleware applications.
9.
Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) API
Google Cloud Key Management Service helps
customers manage encrypted keys. Encryption key management means you can
generate, use, rotate, and destroy encryption keys. You can keep millions of
encryption keys that automatically rotate.
This API is integrated into IAM and Cloud
Audit logging so you can get as granular as managing permissions on a single
key and keep track of how that key is being used.
10.
Zync Render API
Animation studios can use Google
infrastructure to launch their creative works.
Add visual effects and animation rendering
services to your Google Cloud project by enabling the Zync Render API. You can
render your Maya, Houdini FX, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, and Nuke projects on Google
Cloud infrastructure.
Conclusion
Google is at the forefront of API development,
machine learning, and cloud computing. Because of this, the Google Cloud
Platform is the perfect place to begin searching for a suite of software
services.
Cloud computing is
all the rage and APIs that embolden the cloud help to maintain the hype.
Robust, flexible, and reliable libraries are hard to come by. Thankfully,
there's a great deal of Google Cloud APIs at the ready. You can use the above
libraries to make your software, platforms, or business processes more
efficacious.
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About the Author
Greg Robinson is a tech entrepreneur with interest in emerging technologies particularly VR/AR, 3D technologies as well as how artificial intelligence will impact the future of work. You may connect with him on Twitter.