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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

Google Cloud Run

Cloud Run is one of the most powerful and versatile options for quickly creating containerized applications on serverless infrastructure. We will discuss Cloud Run in much greater detail in one of the upcoming chapters, but in a nutshell, Cloud Run is a fully managed serverless platform. This means that developers do not need to worry about resource requirements, provisioning, and configuration – the cloud does everything for you.

Cloud Run is also very scalable and will increase and decrease compute and storage according to the traffic.

Features and benefits of Cloud Run

Here are some of the features and benefits of Google Cloud Run:

  • Fully managed and serverless: Setting up storage, compute requirements, and configurations can be overwhelming for new developers as under-provisioning would mean some customers won't be able to reach you, and overprovisioning would mean you'll be paying for more than what you use. This is where Cloud...