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InFocus This Week– Work Meets Play: Rapid Runs
When you're moving millions across a hundred cities, there's no room for inefficiency. Rapido’s rise in India’s mobility space has been about more than just expanding its reach—it's been about scaling smart, keeping services secure, and optimizing for cost without compromising performance.
The Work Meets Play: Rapid Runs challenge draws from this very playbook. It’s designed to help you develop the foundational skills that power real-world platforms like Rapido—skills that balance security, speed, scale, and efficiency.
Here’s what you’ll explore in this challenge:
Cloud Armor Preconfigured WAF Rules
Learn how to apply prebuilt web application firewall rules to protect your apps from common vulnerabilities and threats.
Service Accounts and Roles: Fundamentals
Understand how Google Cloud manages permissions with service accounts and roles—crucial for secure operations at scale.
Getting Started with Cloud KMS
Explore key management best practices and how to use Cloud KMS to protect sensitive data.
VPC Network Peering
Establish private connectivity between VPC networks to enable seamless communication across services and projects.
Cloud Spanner - Database Fundamentals
Dive into Cloud Spanner’s architecture, benefits, and use cases for applications requiring global scalability and consistency.
Cloud Spanner - Loading Data and Performing Backups
Learn how to load data into Cloud Spanner and implement robust backup strategies to ensure data durability.
Cloud Spanner - Defining Schemas and Understanding Query Plans
Define optimized schemas and analyze query performance using Spanner’s query planner.
Google Kubernetes Engine: Qwik Start
Get a quick start on deploying and managing containerized applications using GKE.
Reduce Costs for the Managed Service for Prometheus
Understand how to monitor workloads effectively while managing cost using Prometheus on Google Cloud.
Introduction to Docker
Build and run containerized applications efficiently with Docker—an essential tool for modern cloud deployment.
Cloud Storage: Qwik Start – Cloud Console
Learn the basics of storing and managing data through the Cloud Console.
Cloud Storage: Qwik Start – CLI/SDK
Explore data storage operations using the command-line interface and SDK for more control and automation.
Optimizing Cost with Google Cloud Storage
Use Google Cloud’s cost optimization features to store data efficiently without overspending.
Introduction to APIs in Google Cloud
Get familiar with how APIs work in the Google Cloud ecosystem and how to interact with services programmatically.
APIs Explorer: Cloud Storage
Use the APIs Explorer tool to make and test Cloud Storage API requests directly from the browser.
Google Kubernetes Engine Security: Binary Authorization
Implement Binary Authorization to enforce image security policies and prevent unauthorized container deployments.
These labs simulate what it takes to build reliable, secure, and cost-effective systems at scale—just like Rapido. They go beyond just learning—they train you to think and act fast in the Cloud.
The first 50 participants to complete the Work Meets Play: Rapid Runs challenge will earn 1 Arcade Point.
If you don’t make the top 50, you’ll still unlock access to a special game at the end of the season.
Speed is one part of the game. Precision is the rest.
Ready to run?
