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Google Cloud Platform for Architects

By : Vitthal Srinivasan, Loonycorn , Judy Raj
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Google Cloud Platform for Architects

By: Vitthal Srinivasan, Loonycorn , Judy Raj

Overview of this book

Using a public cloud platform was considered risky a decade ago, and unconventional even just a few years ago. Today, however, use of the public cloud is completely mainstream - the norm, rather than the exception. Several leading technology firms, including Google, have built sophisticated cloud platforms, and are locked in a fierce competition for market share. The main goal of this book is to enable you to get the best out of the GCP, and to use it with confidence and competence. You will learn why cloud architectures take the forms that they do, and this will help you become a skilled high-level cloud architect. You will also learn how individual cloud services are configured and used, so that you are never intimidated at having to build it yourself. You will also learn the right way and the right situation in which to use the important GCP services. By the end of this book, you will be able to make the most out of Google Cloud Platform design.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Logging and Monitoring

Creating and operating an HBase table using Cloud Bigtable

You can use the create command to create an employee table, and within it we will add a column family: personal. As Bigtable is a columnar store where all columns are logically grouped into column families, a table should have at least one column family.

Running the list command now should confirm that exactly one table, the employee, table has been set up, as shown here:

  1. To insert our first row into this table, we will need to specify a row key, the column family, and the name of the column where this insert should occur. The row key uniquely identifies a row and is used to index all the columns and column values that are present in one row. It is this index row key that allows very fast lookup operations and quick scan operations in HBase and Bigtable. When we insert a value in a particular row we need to specify....