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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By : Sanket Thodge
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By: Sanket Thodge

Overview of this book

With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide their distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data. This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud, and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you’re planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you understand the design and business considerations to be kept in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics, based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available in Google Cloud Platform and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on building an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Design and Business Considerations

In this chapter, we will be learning about how cloud-based solutions are designed and architected. What should be our approach before the solution is moved to the cloud? We will also learn about whether we should consider on-premises hardware or directly move the solution to cloud. In short, we will be learning about the migration and related processes along with the prerequisite preparation required.

This chapter is going to discuss cloud computing in more depth too. Some concepts from previous chapters will be helpful to us as well.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Cloud computing and migration
  • Parameters before adopting cloud strategy
  • Prerequisites for an application to be moved to cloud
  • Simplifying cloud migration with virtualization
  • Infrastructure contemplation for cloud
  • Available deployment models while moving to cloud
  • Cloud migration checklist
  • Architecture of cloud computing ecosystem
  • Applications of cloud computing
  • Preparing a...