You're reading from Architecting Google Cloud Solutions Learn to design robust and future-proof solutions with Google Cloud technologies

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563308

Length 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Google App Engine

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Victor Dantas

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Google Cloud

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Google Cloud for Architects FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Mastering the Basics of Google Cloud

4. Section 2: Designing Great Solutions in Google Cloud

5. Chapter 3: Designing the Network

6. Chapter 4: Architecting Compute Infrastructure

7. Chapter 5: Architecting Storage and Data Infrastructure

8. Chapter 6: Configuring Services for Observability

9. Chapter 7: Designing for Security and Compliance

10. Section 3: Designing for the Modern Enterprise

11. Chapter 8: Approaching Big Data and Data Pipelines

12. Chapter 9: Jumping on the DevOps Bandwagon with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

13. Chapter 10: Re-Architecting with Microservices

14. Chapter 11: Applying Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

15. Chapter 12: Achieving Operational Excellence

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Practicing the cost discipline on Google Cloud

Before we move on to learning how to design great solutions in Google Cloud, it is essential to be cost-effective by knowing how to save money on GCP. This will help not only you directly if you have a personal "lab" environment that you pay out of your pocket, but also help the organizations you work with by saving their money, regardless of whether you're building test environments or production systems. Cost optimization is a fundamental and well-appreciated skill for any Cloud Architect.

The following has been stated in Google's Cloud Adoption Framework:

"With no up-front procurement of IT resources to set a physical limit on the amount of resources that an application can consume and no CAPEX-based, multiyear capacity planning, controlling costs begins with the individual software engineer. […] Without appropriate dashboards, alerts, and processes in place, managing the cloud expenditure for organizations...