You're reading from The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud The what, why, and how of application modernization on Google Cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800209794

Length 488 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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SQL

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Firebase

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Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Jason Marston

Dheeraj Panyam

Steve (Satish) Sangapu

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Development and App Modernization in Google Cloud

2. Chapter 1: Cloud-Native Application Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: End-to-End Extensible Tooling for Cloud-Native Application Development

4. Chapter 3: Cloud-Native Architecture Patterns and System Architecture Tenets

5. Section 2: Selecting the Right Google Cloud Services

6. Chapter 4: Choosing the Right Compute Option

7. Chapter 5: Choosing the Right Database and Storage

8. Chapter 6: Implementing a Messaging and Scheduling System

9. Chapter 7: Implementing Cloud-Native Security

10. Section 3: Rehosting and Replatforming the Application

11. Chapter 8: Introducing the Legacy Application

12. Chapter 9: The Initial Architecture on Google Compute Engine

13. Chapter 10: Addressing Scalability and Availability

14. Chapter 11: Re-Platforming the Data Layer

15. Chapter 12: Designing the Interim Architecture

16. Chapter 13: Refactoring to Microservices

17. Section 4: Refactoring the Application on Cloud-Native/PaaS and Serverless in Google Cloud

18. Chapter 14: Refactoring the Frontend and Exposing REST Services

19. Chapter 15: Handling Eventual Consistency with the Compensation Pattern

20. Chapter 16: Orchestrating Your Application with Google Kubernetes Engine

21. Chapter 17: Going Serverless with Google App Engine

22. Chapter 18: Future Proofing Your App with Google Cloud Run

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A: Choosing the Right Migration Strategy

1. Appendix B: Application Modernization Solutions

The software architecture

Before we start examining how our software architecture needs to change to become cloud native, we need to review the current software architecture.

The following diagram shows how the application is currently structured. This diagram has been simplified, so it does not show repositories or other supporting classes as these don't add much useful information to our refactoring efforts:

Figure 12.4 – Current software architecture (legacy)

To explain the architecture, we will run through how a request is processed. The user of a Web Browser navigates to the application. The URL used invokes an MVC Controller.

The MVC Controller checks if there is an existing session and if so, loads the state from Session as a Service. The MVC Controller then invokes a Domain Service with the information provided from the Web Browser and/or Session.

The Domain Service then retrieves an Aggregate Root from the Relational Database and...

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