We'll start with an introductory Google Cloud Platform (GCP) walk-through, with a brief overview of the different services it offers and the multiple ways developers can take advantage of those. The second half of the talk will be a live step-by-step demonstration on how to deploy a simple Python web application; leveraging the power of App Engine, Google's own approach to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), we'll witness how easy it is to horizontally scale our application to meet production demands