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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By : Victor Dantas
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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By: Victor Dantas

Overview of this book

Google has been one of the top players in the public cloud domain thanks to its agility and performance capabilities. This book will help you design, develop, and manage robust, secure, and dynamic solutions to successfully meet your business needs. You'll learn how to plan and design network, compute, storage, and big data systems that incorporate security and compliance from the ground up. The chapters will cover simple to complex use cases for devising solutions to business problems, before focusing on how to leverage Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities for designing modern no-operations platforms. Throughout this book, you'll discover how to design for scalability, resiliency, and high availability. Later, you'll find out how to use Google Cloud to design modern applications using microservices architecture, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices. The concluding chapters then demonstrate how to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive insights from your data. Finally, you will discover best practices for operating and monitoring your cloud solutions, as well as performing troubleshooting and quality assurance. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll be able to design robust enterprise-grade solutions using Google Cloud Platform.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
4
Section 2: Designing Great Solutions in Google Cloud
10
Section 3: Designing for the Modern Enterprise

Chapter 10: Re-Architecting with Microservices

Microservices have almost become the de facto architecture pattern in modern scalable application design. It's a concept that aligns well with DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). However, like all new technologies and design patterns, it's not necessarily the right solution for all scenarios and certainly doesn't come without its set of challenges. A cloud architect must understand the pros and cons of microservices architectures, when to adopt them, and how to make the best use of them.

In this chapter, you will learn what problems microservices solve – and what problems they create. You will learn how to design modern application architectures that leverage microservices and common design patterns. You will then learn about the enabling technologies in Google Cloud to deploy microservices and manage APIs. In particular, you will get hands-on experience in decomposing a monolithic application into...