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Cloud Computing Demystified for Aspiring Professionals

By : David Santana
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Book Image

Cloud Computing Demystified for Aspiring Professionals

5 (1)
By: David Santana

Overview of this book

If you want to upskill yourself in cloud computing domains to thrive in the IT industry, then you’ve come to the right place. Cloud Computing Demystified for Aspiring Professionals helps you to master cloud computing essentials and important technologies offered by cloud service providers needed to succeed in a cloud-centric job role. This book begins with an overview of transformation from traditional to modern-day cloud computing infrastructure, and various types and models of cloud computing. You’ll learn how to implement secure virtual networks, virtual machines, and data warehouse resources including data lake services used in big data analytics — as well as when to use SQL and NoSQL databases and how to build microservices using multi-cloud Kubernetes services across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. You'll also get step-by-step demonstrations of infrastructure, platform, and software cloud services and optimization recommendations derived from certified industry experts using hands-on tutorials, self-assessment questions, and real-world case studies. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to successfully implement cloud computing standardized concepts, services, and best practices in your workplace.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Journey to Cloud Computing
5
Part 2: Implementing Cloud Deployment Models
9
Part 3: Cloud Infrastructure Services in Action
13
Part 4: Administrating Database and Security on the Cloud
18
Part 5: Roadmap for a Successful Journey in Cloud Engineering

Microservices

In this section, you will learn to describe the microservices architecture.

In the early 1960s, virtualization was in its infancy, but so too were distributed computing architectural patterns or strategies, if you will, and practitioners of these patterns’ initial seed bore many fruits. IT pros, in conjunction with development teams, later devised various alternatives to the monolithic application architecture patterns to optimize testability, decoupling, dependencies, and singularity, and improve development sprint cycles with small but proficient teams. As you would expect, cloud computing SPs—Amazon, Microsoft, and Google architectures—provide the building blocks for modern alternatives to the monolithic application development pattern utilized traditionally on-premises.

This new architecture, known as microservices, was derived from distributed computing patterns’ service-oriented nature. Due to the architecture’s position...