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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By : Victor Dantas
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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By: Victor Dantas

Overview of this book

Google has been one of the top players in the public cloud domain thanks to its agility and performance capabilities. This book will help you design, develop, and manage robust, secure, and dynamic solutions to successfully meet your business needs. You'll learn how to plan and design network, compute, storage, and big data systems that incorporate security and compliance from the ground up. The chapters will cover simple to complex use cases for devising solutions to business problems, before focusing on how to leverage Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities for designing modern no-operations platforms. Throughout this book, you'll discover how to design for scalability, resiliency, and high availability. Later, you'll find out how to use Google Cloud to design modern applications using microservices architecture, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices. The concluding chapters then demonstrate how to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive insights from your data. Finally, you will discover best practices for operating and monitoring your cloud solutions, as well as performing troubleshooting and quality assurance. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll be able to design robust enterprise-grade solutions using Google Cloud Platform.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
4
Section 2: Designing Great Solutions in Google Cloud
10
Section 3: Designing for the Modern Enterprise

Understanding microservices and when to adopt them

As with all good buzzwords, there's no single view on what exactly microservices are. However, there's good consensus on the general idea behind it. That is, an architectural style and approach to designing applications as suites of independently deployable and loosely coupled services. These services are "small" and specialized, and the communication protocols are lightweight (typically an HTTP resource API). Furthermore, services can be written in different programming languages and use different storage technologies. You may have already heard these things or already know this much about microservices. So, what's all the fuss about, and why should you use microservices? Let's take a more in-depth look.

Why microservices?

A microservices architecture is perhaps best understood when contrasted with the traditional monolithic style that it is meant to replace. A monolithic application is designed...