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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

Investigating application performance issues

Observability doesn't only apply to the systems and the environment where the applications run. It is also useful to observe what is going on inside your applications, down to a specific line of code. In Google Cloud, the suite of tools that allow you to perform these tasks includes: Cloud Debugger, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler. In this section, we're going to learn what we can do with each of them.

Cloud Debugger

Cloud Debugger allows you to inspect the state of an application in real time by capturing its call stack and variables at any point in your source code using non-intrusive snapshots. The service is not impacted while you do this, so you can run it in production code. You can run Debugger on any compute service and against code written in several languages, namely: Java, Python, Go, Node.js, Ruby, .NET, and PHP. However, not all features are available in all combinations of language and runtime. You provide Debugger...