Architecting with Google Cloud Design and Process

Defining the Service

• Describe users in terms of roles and personas

• Evaluate KPIs using SLOs and SLIs

• Determine the quality of application requirements using SMART criteria

Microservice Design and Architecture

• Decompose monolithic applications into microservices

• Recognize appropriate microservice boundaries

• Design consistent, standard RESTful service APIs

• Identify the 12-factor best practices for implementing services

DevOps Automation

• Discuss the automation of service deployment using CI/CD pipelines

• Explain how to leverage Cloud Source Repositories for source and version control

• Automate builds with Cloud Build and build triggers

• Manage container images with Container Registry

Choosing Storage Solutions

• Identify the use cases for Spanner

• Identify the use cases for Cloud SQL

• Identify the use cases for Firestore

• Identify the use cases for Memorystore

Google Cloud and Hybrid Network Architecture

• Discuss the design of VPC networks to optimize for cost, security, and performance

• Describe how global and regional load balancers provide access to services

• Connect networks using peering and VPNs

• Define hybrid networks between Google Cloud and on-premises data centers using Cloud Interconnect

Deploying Applications to Google Cloud

• Choose the appropriate Google Cloud deployment service for your applications

• Configure scalable, resilient infrastructure using Instance Templates and Groups

• Orchestrate microservice deployments using Kubernetes and GKE

• Leverage App Engine for a completely automated platform as a service (PaaS)

Designing Reliable Systems

• Discuss the design of services to meet requirements for availability, durability, and scalability

• Identify the failures to be avoided to implement a fault-tolerant system

Security

• Identify the best practices for designing secure systems

• Discuss the use of organizational policies and folders to simplify cloud governance

 • Identify Google Cloud services that can be leveraged for access management

• Identify Google Cloud services that can be leveraged to mitigate DDoS attacks

Maintenance and Monitoring

 • Discuss different ways to manage new service versions

• Describe how to forecast, monitor, and optimize service costs

• Observe if your services are meeting their SLOs using Cloud Monitoring and Dashboards

• Use Uptime Checks to determine service availability

• Respond to service outages using Cloud Monitoring Alert