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The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209794
Length 488 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dheeraj Panyam Dheeraj Panyam
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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

Storage and database options on Google Cloud – the big three

As we said, there are a lot of options available for database and storage. While we will talk about all of these services, this chapter will focus more on a few key services because as with compute options, Google Cloud offers fully managed platforms for storage that help new developers achieve more while doing less. Additionally, it's unlikely that most new cloud developers would need to use all of the services provided in Google Cloud. Most developers only need a few (or in some cases, only one) storage and database services to get things off the ground. These services, which we'll focus on first, are Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Google Cloud SQL, Google Firestore, Google Spanner, and Google Bigtable. Additionally, we'll also talk about Cloud FileStore, BigQuery, Memorystore, and Persistent Disk.

GCS – basics

Before we dive deeper, let's clear up some of the basics including concepts...

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