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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

Chapter 5: Choosing the Right Database and Storage

Now that you've chosen your compute option, it's time to move on to the next decision: choosing the right database and storage for your cloud application.

Google Cloud's world of managed services is huge, and their library of database and storage options is very diverse as well. To put this in numbers, the Google Cloud ecosystem has well over 100 services and tools for nearly all aspects of cloud software development, and more than a dozen of these are dedicated solely to storage and databases. The goal behind such a large range of options is to give developers more customizability and agility. More importantly, developers are not required to choose a single service and stick with it—rather, they can choose multiple storage and database options together to meet their application's requirements; in fact, this is common practice.

To new developers who are diving straight into cloud computing, data storage...