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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

Operations suite

Perhaps you already know this tool by its previous name – Stackdriver. Google recently rebranded its monitoring and logging cloud solution to the Cloud operations suite. The operations suite allows developers to monitor, track, analyze, and troubleshoot application performance.

The operations suite consists primarily of two separate tools: Google Cloud Monitoring (GCM) and Google Cloud Logging (GCL). Other services in the operations suite include Cloud Trace, Cloud Debugger, and Cloud Profiler.

Let's take a look at the two main services separately.

Features of Google Cloud Monitoring

Google Cloud Monitoring (GCM) is a full-stack monitoring tool that helps you with critical information about your app, including performance metrics, uptime, health, and trends. It can also be integrated with popular tools such as Slack for easier notifications, discussions, and collaborative decision-making. Here are some of its key features:

  • Easy to...