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

Languages

SQL

Tools

Firebase

Concepts

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

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Appendix A: Choosing the Right Migration Strategy

1. Appendix B: Application Modernization Solutions

Chapter 14: Refactoring the Frontend and Exposing REST Services

We have been focusing on the infrastructure in the first part of this book. We examined how to rehost and re-platform our application, gaining some of the benefits of moving to the cloud without making major changes to the application itself.

We will now start to refactor our application toward microservices. To do this, we will need to separate out the frontend of the application so that it can be deployed separately when we move to microservices and expose the business logic to the frontend as REpresentational State Transfer (REST) services. We will also learn how to change the application to delegate identity and authentication to Google Cloud Identity Platform and use that to secure both the frontend and the REST services.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: