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Visualizing Google Cloud: 101 Illustrated References for Cloud Engineers and Architects
Easy-to-follow visual walkthrough of every important part of the Google Cloud Platform
The Google Cloud Platform incorporates dozens of specialized services that enable organizations to offload technological needs onto the cloud. From routine IT operations like storage to sophisticated new capabilities including artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Google Cloud Platform offers enterprises the opportunity to scale and grow efficiently.
In Visualizing Google Illustrated References for Cloud Engineers & Architects, Google Cloud expert Priyanka Vergadia delivers a fully illustrated, visual guide to matching the best Google Cloud Platform services to your own unique use cases. After a brief introduction to the major categories of cloud services offered by Google, the author offers approximately 100 solutions divided into eight categories of services included in Google Cloud
Compute Storage Databases Data Analytics Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Application Development and Modernization with Containers Networking Security You’ll find richly illustrated flowcharts and decision diagrams with straightforward explanations in each category, making it easy to adopt and adapt Google’s cloud services to your use cases. With coverage of the major categories of cloud models—including infrastructure-, containers-, platforms-, functions-, and serverless—and discussions of storage types, databases and Machine Learning choices, Visualizing Google Illustrated References for Cloud Engineers & Architects is perfect for every Google Cloud enthusiast, of course. It is for anyone who is planning a cloud migration or new cloud deployment. It is for anyone preparing for cloud certification, and for anyone looking to make the most of Google Cloud. It is for cloud solutions architects, IT decision-makers, and cloud data and ML engineers. In short, this book is for YOU.
The Google Cloud Platform incorporates dozens of specialized services that enable organizations to offload technological needs onto the cloud. From routine IT operations like storage to sophisticated new capabilities including artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Google Cloud Platform offers enterprises the opportunity to scale and grow efficiently.
In Visualizing Google Illustrated References for Cloud Engineers & Architects, Google Cloud expert Priyanka Vergadia delivers a fully illustrated, visual guide to matching the best Google Cloud Platform services to your own unique use cases. After a brief introduction to the major categories of cloud services offered by Google, the author offers approximately 100 solutions divided into eight categories of services included in Google Cloud
Compute Storage Databases Data Analytics Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Application Development and Modernization with Containers Networking Security You’ll find richly illustrated flowcharts and decision diagrams with straightforward explanations in each category, making it easy to adopt and adapt Google’s cloud services to your use cases. With coverage of the major categories of cloud models—including infrastructure-, containers-, platforms-, functions-, and serverless—and discussions of storage types, databases and Machine Learning choices, Visualizing Google Illustrated References for Cloud Engineers & Architects is perfect for every Google Cloud enthusiast, of course. It is for anyone who is planning a cloud migration or new cloud deployment. It is for anyone preparing for cloud certification, and for anyone looking to make the most of Google Cloud. It is for cloud solutions architects, IT decision-makers, and cloud data and ML engineers. In short, this book is for YOU.
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250 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 11, 2022
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May 31, 2022
I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand the dizzying array of services offered by Google Cloud Platform. The illustrations are charming and informative, and the prose offers just the right level of information without burying you in trivia.
July 29, 2022
About 20 years ago, a product engineer at a tech company like Cisco or Check Point could know about all of their company's products. Today, it would take a team of product engineers. Similarly, when it comes to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), its range of products is so immense (over 200 products) that even as a customer, it is hard to get a handle on their entire product suite.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Visualizing Google Cloud: 101 Illustrated References for Cloud Engineers and Architects (Wiley) by Priyanka Vergadia is worth a whole lot more. In this remarkably good book, Vergadia provides an easy-to-follow visual walkthrough of the main components of GCP.
Most people are visual learners, and a book like this will undoubtedly appeal to many people in the technology field. In the book, Vergadia provides visual explanations of each core GCP concept, how they work, and how you can apply it to your business.
A fantastic thing about many of the products detailed in the book is that they have a free tier, in addition to having free trials that a firm can use to try these products. Based on GCP quotas, a small firm could, in fact, run its entire business in GCP without paying anything. But as a reader of the book could quickly tell, that won't scale well in the long run.
Of the over 200 GCP products in their catalog, the book breaks most of them down into the following seven chapters:
• Infrastructure
• Storage
• Databases
• Data Analytics
• Application Development and Modernization Opening
• Networking
• Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
• Security
There is significant interaction between all the various GCP components, and the book does a great job of showing those interactions. It's not just that Vergadia is an excellent illustrator. She also does a great job of explaining the concepts and products.
There is a lot about GCP that can be learned from this book. For those new to the Google suite of cloud computing services, or veteran GCP users, Visualizing Google Cloud is a great resource to understand what is going on beneath the hood of the massive engine of the Google cloud.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Visualizing Google Cloud: 101 Illustrated References for Cloud Engineers and Architects (Wiley) by Priyanka Vergadia is worth a whole lot more. In this remarkably good book, Vergadia provides an easy-to-follow visual walkthrough of the main components of GCP.
Most people are visual learners, and a book like this will undoubtedly appeal to many people in the technology field. In the book, Vergadia provides visual explanations of each core GCP concept, how they work, and how you can apply it to your business.
A fantastic thing about many of the products detailed in the book is that they have a free tier, in addition to having free trials that a firm can use to try these products. Based on GCP quotas, a small firm could, in fact, run its entire business in GCP without paying anything. But as a reader of the book could quickly tell, that won't scale well in the long run.
Of the over 200 GCP products in their catalog, the book breaks most of them down into the following seven chapters:
• Infrastructure
• Storage
• Databases
• Data Analytics
• Application Development and Modernization Opening
• Networking
• Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
• Security
There is significant interaction between all the various GCP components, and the book does a great job of showing those interactions. It's not just that Vergadia is an excellent illustrator. She also does a great job of explaining the concepts and products.
There is a lot about GCP that can be learned from this book. For those new to the Google suite of cloud computing services, or veteran GCP users, Visualizing Google Cloud is a great resource to understand what is going on beneath the hood of the massive engine of the Google cloud.
March 19, 2024
Because of its title, I initially assumed this book would be predominantly composed of images and diagrams. While there are indeed many visuals, they often lack self-explanatory clarity in most cases. Readers must delve into extensive textual explanations, yet even those may fall short due to the book's somewhat shallow coverage (a limitation inherent in attempting to encapsulate GCP within a single volume).
Ultimately, this book failed to enhance my understanding of unfamiliar aspects of GCP due to its superficial treatment. Similarly, it did not contribute to deepening my knowledge in areas already familiar to me, as it lacked new insights. Its utility was primarily confined to providing a broader perspective on topics where my understanding was intermediate, offering insights into their placement within the overall GCP structure and alternative approaches.
In my assessment, this book proves beneficial solely as a review tool for readers already familiar with the discussed concepts.
May 22, 2024
Được cu em trên công ty giới thiệu cho cuốn này, đúng là hay.
Không nghĩ là có một ai đó ngoài kia bỏ ra công sức để visualize những thứ như thế này và diễn giải một cách ngắn gọn, đơn giản đến vậy. Cuốn này giúp tiết kiệm rất nhiều thời gian để tìm hiểu về một hệ sinh thái Cloud và mối liên kết giữa các sản phẩm/dịch vụ Cloud được cung cấp bởi một ông như Google.
Trước đây có đi tìm hiểu thì cũng chỉ thấy các sản phẩm/dịch vụ được phân nhóm theo những tiêu chí nọ, tiêu chí kia. Rồi thì, sản phẩm nào thì thì là chính/phụ, sản phẩm nào chỉ là chim mồi... Nhìn chung, gạn lọc những thứ đó trên mạng, thông qua các báo cáo của các bên nghiên cứu (kể cả báo cáo trả tiền) thì cũng hết sức mông lung.
Không nghĩ là có một ai đó ngoài kia bỏ ra công sức để visualize những thứ như thế này và diễn giải một cách ngắn gọn, đơn giản đến vậy. Cuốn này giúp tiết kiệm rất nhiều thời gian để tìm hiểu về một hệ sinh thái Cloud và mối liên kết giữa các sản phẩm/dịch vụ Cloud được cung cấp bởi một ông như Google.
Trước đây có đi tìm hiểu thì cũng chỉ thấy các sản phẩm/dịch vụ được phân nhóm theo những tiêu chí nọ, tiêu chí kia. Rồi thì, sản phẩm nào thì thì là chính/phụ, sản phẩm nào chỉ là chim mồi... Nhìn chung, gạn lọc những thứ đó trên mạng, thông qua các báo cáo của các bên nghiên cứu (kể cả báo cáo trả tiền) thì cũng hết sức mông lung.
July 26, 2025
Great starter set for Google Cloud Platform
Great resource but somewhat dated. Collection has significant amount of material consolidated in easy to read form. Even though some of the services and resources are either deprecated, renamed, or different, this is a great place to start your cloud journey with Google. It SHOULD be updated but I think the author has moved on to another competitor. Google, pick this up somehow and update the material if you want more peeps to use your platform.
Great resource but somewhat dated. Collection has significant amount of material consolidated in easy to read form. Even though some of the services and resources are either deprecated, renamed, or different, this is a great place to start your cloud journey with Google. It SHOULD be updated but I think the author has moved on to another competitor. Google, pick this up somehow and update the material if you want more peeps to use your platform.
January 8, 2024
Excellent introduction to Google Cloud with a focus on how systems relate to each other, when one is more appropriate, and how they work together.
It won't teach you how to use them, or give you much depth, but it's a good foundation for the holistic view.
My only complaints:
* IAM was a bit sparse
* Text in diagrams can be hard to read sometimes
* I had to piece a few areas together, e.g. app development and networking both had a fragment about apigee
* No real hint at costs
It won't teach you how to use them, or give you much depth, but it's a good foundation for the holistic view.
My only complaints:
* IAM was a bit sparse
* Text in diagrams can be hard to read sometimes
* I had to piece a few areas together, e.g. app development and networking both had a fragment about apigee
* No real hint at costs
April 25, 2024
Got the book as a free gift from Women in HPC workshop at SC23 (Thanks to Google cloud team!). It covers a broad range of interesting topics on cloud in addition to the "compute" area I am familiar with. Coming from a traditional HPC background, I found it as a great "applications" book where I learn how various "system" and "AI" topics fit in.
April 9, 2024
Great easy to read guide
Explanations with so much visual content is something extraordinary for understanding cloud infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform. Totally recommended to all beginners like me.
Explanations with so much visual content is something extraordinary for understanding cloud infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform. Totally recommended to all beginners like me.
January 21, 2024
Very good summaries and visualizations about all GCP products. This book brought the organized view that I was missing.
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