Cloud Native with Google Cloud

Explore our highly-acclaimed
Google Cloud Accelerators

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What is it?

If you’re scaling, your tech teams are probably starting to split into dev, platform, SRE teams and more.
Based on a partnership between Google Cloud and Container Solutions, the Google Cloud Accelerators are designed to bridge those gaps, help increase software delivery performance, accelerate product development and improve reliability.

Who needs an accelerator?

Companies with:

  • 50-100 people and on a growth trajectory
  • defining a tech strategy that supports business growth

Companies that are:

  • ready to meet exceed customer expectations
  • defining a tech strategy that supports business growth

 

Explore two of our Google Cloud Accelerators: 

1. Modern Application Delivery

2. API-First Microservice Architecture

 

1. Modern Application Delivery

What are we solving for?
Ineffective application delivery including manual processes and various internal systems curbs developer performance.
To improve developer productivity and experience, rapidly growing engineering organisations need an authoritative source of truth for every configuration.

What do you get when we’re done?
● Increased productivity
Continuous deployment automation allows teams to ship more changes faster.
● Enhanced Developer Experience
Developers can get up to speed and become productive within days, instead of months.
● Consistency and Standardisation
Develop consistent end-to-end workflows across your entire organisation.

Who benefits the most?
● Rapidly growing teams already using Kubernetes for current environments
● Developers looking to improve the deployment procedure to focus on application code

What's the timeline?

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Discovery

  • Review current architecture and processes
  • Specify key results and success measures
  • Knowledge gathering: Identify & prioritise work

Platform deployment

  • Structure necessary repositories (app/config/k8s resources)
  • Create Container Registry (if needed)
  • Create CI pipelines that build and push containers to the registry
  • Implement software supply chain security (vulnerability scanning,
    binary authorization)

Implementation

  • Set up clusters for ArgoCD
  • Deploy ArgoCD and configure for environment clusters
  • Configure ArgoCD to monitor the configuration repository

Hand over

  • Documentation
  • Delivery review: What did we achieve together?
  • Discuss further improvements to deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary)

2. API-First Microservice Architecture

What are we solving for?
Successful scale-ups constantly add new features to their applications. Apps that grow get slow.
-Engineering teams lose speed.
-More time for feature delivery means increased development costs.
-Monitoring and debugging the app gets complicated.

What do you get when we’re done?
● Microservices are fully set up on GKE incl. observability/security
● Readiness to scale the implementation of modern APIs
● Capability to build and run API-first architecture
● Accelerated software delivery

Who benefits the most?
● Digital Natives concerned about sluggish application delivery
● Development teams considering API-first microservices architecture
● Teams asking: “How do we build and run modern APIs on GKE using best practices?”

What's the timeline?

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Discovery

  • Review current architecture and processes
  • Specify key results and success measures
  • Knowledge gathering: Identify & prioritise work and requirements

Implementation

  • Applying best practices to build manageable APIs on GKE
  • Service Mesh (Interservice comms)

Implementation

  • Applying best practices to run modern APIs effectively
  • 3 Pillars of Observability (logging, monitoring, tracing)
  • OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing

Hand over

  • Documentation
  • Delivery review: What has been achieved?
  • Potential high-impact next steps

The world is changing fast.
The only way to survive it is to build for it.

Talk to our Experts

Book your 15 min 1:1 with:

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Felix Evert
Global Partnerships Manager

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Let’s take the next step together

 

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