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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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

Five compute options… and Firebase

There are five main platforms that you can use to create powerful cloud-native applications on Google Cloud: Cloud Functions, GAE, Cloud Run, GKE, and GCE. However, there is a sixth platform offered by Google that is also a viable compute option but is not fully a part of the Google Cloud ecosystem: Firebase.

Firebase

One of the reasons why Firebase isn't a major part of the Google Cloud is because it is a tool used to create mobile or HyperText Markup Language (HTML) applications, and thus does not need to fully support the powerful Google Cloud ecosystem. If you are not a mobile or HTML5 developer, you may skip Firebase and focus on the rest of the compute options discussed in this chapter.

However, if you are a mobile developer, then Firebase might be what you're looking for. It's a powerful platform for building mobile and web applications that can be scaled up in the same way as other Google Cloud-based applications...

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