Cloud native development gives you the power to rapidly build, secure, and scale software. But you still need to navigate many potential pitfalls along the way. Through practical examples, this book demonstrates how to use Google Cloud as a laboratory to enable rapid innovation, a factory to automate toil, a resilient, scalable, and secure citadel for running applications, and an observatory to observe them.

Author Daniel Vaughan shows you how to take applications from prototype to production by combining Google Cloud services, a cloud native programming model, and best practices. By following an example project from start to finish, developers, architects, and engineering managers working with the Google Cloud Platform will learn how to build and run cloud native applications on Google Cloud with confidence.

• Understand cloud native development concepts from microservices and containerization to architecture best practices and cost optimization
• Learn Google Cloud services that specifically support this development style: compute, persistence, messaging, DevOps, security and networking, and observability
• Confidently build cloud native applications on Google Cloud
• Learn how to address nonfunctional requirements such as security, observability, and testing
• Successfully make the transition from initial proofs of concept and prototypes to production systems

Table of Contents

Part I. Cloud Native Google Cloud

Chapter 1. Why Cloud Native and Not Just Cloud?

Chapter 2. Why Google Cloud Platform?

Chapter 3. Cloud Native Applications

Part II. Hands-On Projects

Chapter 4. Preparing Google Cloud

Chapter 5. Project 1: Tag Updater with Cloud Functions

Chapter 6. Project 2: Skill Service with Cloud Run

Chapter 7. Project 3: Fact Service with Spring Boot, Cloud Run, and Cloud SQL

Chapter 8. Project 4: Profile Service with Pub/Sub and Firestore

Chapter 9. Project 5: API and User Interface with API Gateway and Cloud Storage

Part Ill. The Facilities

Chapter 1 0. Laboratory

Chapter 11. Citadel

Chapter 12. Factory

Chapter 13. Observatory

Part IV. Going Further

Chapter 14. Scaling Up

Chapter 15. Going Further

Many organizations have faced disappointment with cloud migration when expected productivity gains and cost savings weren’t realized. Often, the mistake is treating the cloud as just another data center. This book highlights the distinctiveness of a cloud native approach and how it can truly harness the power of the cloud.

Who This Book Is For

This guide is for software developers and architects who are either newcomers to cloud computing or already on their cloud journey and want a deeper understanding of Google Cloud. While Google offers numerous professional certifications for its cloud platform, they can be rather theoretical. This book bridges that gap, offering a holistic view of Google Cloud services and how they come together to create a powerful toolkit for cloud native application development.

About the Author

Daniel Vaughan is a Cloud Native Software Architect at Mastercard and formally the Head of Solution Architecture at HCL Cloud Native Labs. Since 2016 he has had a passion for helping development teams make the most of the cloud. He has been working with Google Cloud since 2019 and is eight times Google Cloud certified.