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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)
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Section 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
4
Section 2: Designing Great Solutions in Google Cloud
10
Section 3: Designing for the Modern Enterprise

Architecting with Compute Engine

If you're an IT professional, you're probably already familiar with virtual machines (VMs) and comfortable working with them. Google Compute Engine (GCE) is the service in Google Cloud that enables you to create and manage VMs. How is that different from deploying VMs on a traditional data center environment? First and foremost, Google is one of the hyperscale cloud providers, which means their hardware capacity is virtually limitless. This allows you to create VMs with powerful enough specifications for the most demanding applications that scale to meet increasing needs. Powered by Google's data centers, GCE also delivers the robustness and resiliency of a platform that is constantly monitored and well-secured. Then, you get things such as managed VM images, marketplace images with preconfigured software, and, in general, easy integration with other cloud services and powerful automation capabilities. In addition, as we mentioned in...