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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

Learning the monitoring basics

Monitoring has a few important purposes. It helps you achieve business continuity, carry out forecasting and trend analysis, test changes, build dashboards with your system's most crucial metrics, alert on-call personnel to potentially violated Service-Level Agreements (SLAs), and, in general, provide data for analytics, troubleshooting, and improved incident response. A well-monitored infrastructure will, for example, enable you to get the answers to the following questions:

  • Will my system be able to handle the holiday rush? (Forecasting)
  • What is my database growth rate so that I can plan for capacity in the near future? (Trend analysis)
  • Did the latest software update affect performance? (Testing changes)
  • How are customer needs evolving? (Business analytics and intelligence)
  • Is there an on-going attack on the network? (Security analytics)

This level of observability relies on logging and metrics data sent by the various...