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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By : Sanket Thodge
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By: Sanket Thodge

Overview of this book

With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide their distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data. This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud, and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you’re planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you understand the design and business considerations to be kept in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics, based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available in Google Cloud Platform and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on building an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Architecture of a cloud computing ecosystem


In a cloud computing ecosystem, there are a number of computers, servers, and data storage equipment that together make the cloud of computing services. Cloud computing could incorporate any program (from data handling applications, to enterprise scale applications, to computer games). For the most part, every application has its own committed server paying little mind to the cloud provider you utilize.

To guarantee that everything works smoothly and proficiently, the cloud ecosystem utilizes a focal server (otherwise known as control server) to administer and monitor traffic and customer requests, which eventually includes the utilization of protocols (set of rules) and middleware (special software). The reason why middleware is utilized here is to permit different networked computers in the ecosystem to exchange information with each other.

The following image can help you understand all the aspects that cloud computing has:

As a general rule, you...