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The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud
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The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

by Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston
January 2022
Intermediate to advanced
488 pages
10h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4: Choosing the Right Compute Option

In the first three chapters, we've tried to give you most of the information required to make better decisions when building cloud-native applications. Now, it's time to make your first decision: which cloud compute solution to use.

The Google Cloud offers a number of compute options—namely, Firebase, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google App Engine (GAE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, and an upcoming service called Workflows. In case you're thinking that so many choices will make your decision more difficult, don't worry—it won't. Each of these services is built for specific purposes but isn't too different from the others—all of them achieve similar goals with different approaches. One ...

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ISBN: 9781800209794