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The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

By : Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston
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The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

By: Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston

Overview of this book

Legacy applications, which comprise 75–80% of all enterprise applications, often end up being stuck in data centers. Modernizing these applications to make them cloud-native enables them to scale in a cloud environment without taking months or years to start seeing the benefits. This book will help software developers and solutions architects to modernize their applications on Google Cloud and transform them into cloud-native applications. This book helps you to build on your existing knowledge of enterprise application development and takes you on a journey through the six Rs: rehosting, replatforming, rearchitecting, repurchasing, retiring, and retaining. You'll learn how to modernize a legacy enterprise application on Google Cloud and build on existing assets and skills effectively. Taking an iterative and incremental approach to modernization, the book introduces the main services in Google Cloud in an easy-to-understand way that can be applied immediately to an application. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll have learned how to modernize a legacy enterprise application by exploring various interim architectures and tooling to develop a cloud-native microservices-based application.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Development and App Modernization in Google Cloud
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Section 2: Selecting the Right Google Cloud Services
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Section 3: Rehosting and Replatforming the Application
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Section 4: Refactoring the Application on Cloud-Native/PaaS and Serverless in Google Cloud

Chapter 17: Going Serverless with Google App Engine

Container-based microservices is a very useful and modern approach that offers portability and flexibility by allowing you to migrate your applications seamlessly from one compute service to another with very little or no operational overhead and is available on Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google App Engine (GAE), Google Cloud Run, and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

In this chapter, we turn our attention to Google App Engine (flexible), which is Google's longest serving and most mature serverless offering. The Google App Engine flexible environment does not offer the complex orchestration that Google Kubernetes Engine does, but if such orchestration is not required, then the Google App Engine flexible environment is the simplest, most mature, and cost-effective option available for running container-based microservices.

In the next chapter, we will look at a table that compares App Engine, Cloud Run, and Google Kubernetes...