About This BookIdentify the strengths, weaknesses and ideal use-cases for individual services offered on the Google Cloud PlatformMake intelligent choices about which cloud technology works best for your use-caseLeverage Google Cloud Platform to analyze and optimize technical and business processesWho This Book Is ForIf you are a Cloud architect who is responsible to design and manage robust cloud solutions with Google Cloud Platform, then this book is for you. System engineers and Enterprise architects will also find this book useful. A basic understanding of distributed applications would be helpful, although not strictly necessary. Some working experience on other public cloud platforms would help too.What You Will LearnSet up GCP account and utilize GCP services using the cloud shell, web console, and client APIsHarness the power of App Engine, Compute Engine, Containers on the Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud FunctionsPick the right managed service for your data needs, choosing intelligently between Datastore, BigTable, and BigQueryMigrate existing Hadoop, Spark, and Pig workloads with minimal disruption to your existing data infrastructure, by using Dataproc intelligentlyDerive insights about the health, performance, and availability of cloud-powered applications with the help of monitoring, logging, and diagnostic tools in StackdriverIn DetailGoogle Cloud Platform for Architects enables you to get the best out of the GCP, and to use it with confidence and competence. You will learn why cloud architectures take the forms that they do, and this will help you become a skilled high-level cloud architect.Also, you will learn how individual cloud services are configured and used, so that you are never intimidated at having to build it yourself. Finally, you will study the right way and the right situation in which to use the important GCP services.By the end of this book, you will be able to make the most out of Google Cloud Platform design.