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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

Storage and database options on Google Cloud – the big three

As we said, there are a lot of options available for database and storage. While we will talk about all of these services, this chapter will focus more on a few key services because as with compute options, Google Cloud offers fully managed platforms for storage that help new developers achieve more while doing less. Additionally, it's unlikely that most new cloud developers would need to use all of the services provided in Google Cloud. Most developers only need a few (or in some cases, only one) storage and database services to get things off the ground. These services, which we'll focus on first, are Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Google Cloud SQL, Google Firestore, Google Spanner, and Google Bigtable. Additionally, we'll also talk about Cloud FileStore, BigQuery, Memorystore, and Persistent Disk.

GCS – basics

Before we dive deeper, let's clear up some of the basics including concepts...