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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the fundamentals of defining a cloud strategy that supports operational excellence, including understanding motivations and priorities, the operating model, and the organizational culture. Then, you learned about the best practices and recommendations from Google Cloud's Architecture Framework for operational excellence. We explored and expanded the guiding principles and best practices and summarized recommendations and the key enabling services for each area. Finally, you learned about Cloud Operations Sandbox, a tool designed to teach SRE and operational excellence principles on GCP.

This chapter concludes Section 3, Designing for the Modern Enterprise, with the proven principles and practices for long-term cloud adoption success. This also concludes this book, and my hope is that you're now armed with the knowledge and confidence to future-proof your Google Cloud solutions and bring value and insights to discussions ranging...