Some past notes on learning GCloud

Cloud in business 

Core concepts

• Why? 
• 3 rules 
  • Focusing on user 
  • 10x thinking 
  • Empowered to innovate 
• Example 
  • Cold call insurance company employee 
    • Why? 
      • Enable people to live their lives feeling financially secure and optimally prepared for lie’s inherent ups and downs 
    • 3 rules 
      • Focusing on user 
        • Discovering user’s real needs and intent 
      • 10x thinking 
      • Empowered to innovate 

Concepts for companies

• Your organization’s mission 
• Who is your user 
• What are some ways you’re focusing on their expectations and meeting those expectations in your day-to-day activities 

Other considerations

• Security 
  • How’s been collected 
  • How’s been stored 
• Privacy 
• Compliance 
• Ethics 
• Human bias 
  • Important to incorporate strategy to eliminate unconcious biases 

Data

Data sets

• User data 
• Corporate data 
• Industry data 

Data types

• Structured data 
• Unstructured data 
  • Unorganized 
  • Qualitatives 
  • Cannot fit into spreedsheets 
  • Examples 
    • Word processing documents 
    • Audio files 
    • Images 
    • Videos 
    • BLOB 
  • Usage 
    • Cloud computing through API can structurlize unconstructure data 
      • Example 
        • Bloomberg uses Google Translate API to translate analysis reports from journelists all around the world into local language 

Data Consolidation and Analytics 

Traditional vs Cloud 

Traditional (Storing in premises) 

• Responsible for IT infrastucture 
• Responsible for maintaining and expanding capacity 

Data management 

Priorities: 

• Data integrity 
  • Rollback integrity 
• Data scale 
  • Scalibility    Services 
• Cloud SQL 
• Cloud spanner    Cloud storage solutions: 
• Databases 
  • Ingest large amounts of data from many different sources efficiently 
• Data warehouse 
  • Enable rapid analysis of large and multidimensional datasets 
• Data lakes 
  • Can store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data    Benefits: 
• Any amount of data 
• Low latencey 
• Accessible from anywhere    Storage types: 
• Nearline storage 
  • Rarely access 
• Coldline storage 
  • Once per few weeks 
• Archive 
  • At least once a year 

Business intelligence solutions 

Challenge: 

• Hard to identify the right business intelligence tools  Services: 
• Google Looker 
  • Makes it simple to describe your data and define business metrics 

Infrastructure modernization 

• Infrastructure as service 
• Outsourcing IT needs at infrastructure level 
• Platform as service 
• Don’t have to manage infrastructure and only pay for what you use   

Technology 

• Virtual machine 
  • Hypervisor (VMM) 
• Serverless computing 
• Container 
• Cloud types 
  • Private cloud 
  • Hybrid cloud 
  • Multi cloud 
• Bare Metal 
  • Bare Metal enables you to migrate specialized workloads to the cloud, while 
• maintaining your existing investments and architecture. This allows you access and integration with Google Cloud services with minimal latency. 
• Google Kubernets Engine (GKE) 
  • Provides managed environment for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications 
  • Allows securely speed up app development streamline operations, and manage infrastructure 
• Google app engine 
  • Cloud Run 
  • Cloud Functions 
    • Scalable, pay-as-you-go functions as service to run code with zero server management   

Five patterns 

• Move applications first then change them 
• Change applications first then move them 
• Invent in greenfield 
• Invent in brownfield 
  • Build new application (Cloud native) in cloud to replace legacy application 
• Move applications without any changes 
• Microservice Architecture 
  • Reduces problems by separating large application into small 
    • Helps to determine where code needs to be changed 
  • CI/CD 
    • Continuous intergration + Continuous deployment 

API

Financial Governance 

Three lens: 

• People 
  • Cooperate and manage costs 
• Process 
• Technology 
  • Google cloud 
    • Visibility 
      • Into predicted cloud costs 
        • Built-in reporting tools 
        • Custom dashboards 
        • Pricing calculator 
    • Accountability 
      • Define clear ownership for projects
    • Control 
      • Set permissions in place to ensure only authorized individuals have power 
    • Intelligence 
      • Smart spending decisions