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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
5
Section 2: Selecting the Right Google Cloud Services
10
Section 3: Rehosting and Replatforming the Application
17
Section 4: Refactoring the Application on Cloud-Native/PaaS and Serverless in Google Cloud

Chapter 6: Implementing a Messaging and Scheduling System

The main idea behind microservices is to decouple the individual services and functions of an application by creating several micro applications that can be scaled more easily and are far more resilient. However, this entire arrangement breaks down completely if the microservices have no way of communicating with each other. Your microservices need to be able to communicate with each other and there are numerous ways this can be done. In this chapter, we'll explore these different ways and look at how Google Cloud services can be used to do this. We'll also cover services from other vendors and compare how they stack against each other.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the requirements of a messaging system
  • Introduction to asynchronous messaging
  • Introduction to Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub)
  • Introduction to Cloud Tasks
  • Introduction to Cloud Scheduler
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