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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 2: End-to-End Extensible Tooling for Cloud-Native Application Development

One of the best things about using a cloud platform such as Google Cloud is having access to hundreds of services that make software engineering significantly faster and easier. Google Cloud provides end-to-end tooling for cloud-native application development, which starts with cloud-native integrated development environment (IDE) tools that aid in maximizing development productivity code all the way to setting up monitoring and logging for your application. For cloud-native application development, Google Cloud offers a wide range of extensible services that allow developers to simplify their workflows.

In this chapter, we will understand what these services are and the benefits and roles of each service. We'll also explore how these services interconnect with the rest of the Google Cloud services used in the pipeline. Finally, we'll look at a sample cloud-native architecture pipeline...