Pub/Sub Messaging Foundations
Create Pub/Sub topics and subscriptions, publish and pull messages, manage acks, and understand delivery guarantees.

Lab Overview
Master Google Cloud Pub/Sub fundamentals. Create topics and subscriptions (push and pull), publish messages programmatically, pull and acknowledge messages using gcloud CLI, understand at-least-once delivery, and manage subscription configuration including dead letter topics and retention.
What You'll Learn
Create Pub/Sub topics and subscriptions
Publish messages to a topic
Pull and acknowledge messages from a subscription
Understand at-least-once delivery semantics
Configure subscription retention and ack deadlines
Prerequisites
Basic command line familiarity
Technologies Covered
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This lab is part of the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer course
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