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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

Additional storage and database options

The Google Cloud ecosystem is huge, and it's not possible to cover every service in a single chapter. The five services that we've already covered make the biggest part of Google Cloud's storage and database services and are, in many ways, the pillars. However, there are some additional services that you'll find useful as your journey in cloud application development continues. Here are four such services.

BigQuery

Cloud BigQuery is a SQL relational database that is also used as a big data analytics platform. It's under the Big Data section of Cloud Console instead of the Storage section because its main purpose is to query extremely large datasets extremely quickly—terabytes of data within minutes.

The reason we didn't include BigQuery in our main list of database options was that most small businesses and developers who are just starting out won't be working with datasets that are measured...