Experimental example code, likely to change. Users should not attempt to run this code till this warning is removed. C++ Client implementation for Cloud Pub/Sub service (https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/pubsub/v1beta1/). "Google Cloud Pub/Sub" API needs to be enabled at https://console.developers.google.com/project to open the access for a client. Select the project name, select the "APIs" under "APIs & auth", and turn on "Google Cloud Pub/Sub" API. To run the client from Google Compute Engine (GCE), the GCE instance needs to be created with scope "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform" as below: gcloud compute instances create instance-name --image debian-7 --scopes https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform To run the client: make pubsub_client bins/opt/pubsub_client --project_id="your project id"