About the book
Exam prep
The book is based on the notes I took when preparing for the "Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect" exam. I kept updating these notes based on things I learned as an architect designing Google Cloud solutions.
Focus on the tricky bit
This book is a "cheat sheet", so everything in it is brief. It goes directly to those things that you need to be particularly aware of because they are tricky and not obvious.
Straight to the point
The book is a bullet list that summarises a lot of info. Every word in the book matters! (except some bad jokes). Topics that take 100s of pages elsewhere are fully covered here in just a few pages, so it can save you a lot of reading time.
Not a tutorial
Because the book focuses on the architecture exam, it's not a hands-on tutorial. It's about the things you need to know to become a certified GCP architect that considers alternative high-level solutions.
Match cloud services to requirements
Parts of the book go through individual GCP services, one by one, and list things you need to know about them. Other parts look across GCP services, because such comparisons are needed when you solve real-world problems.
Copyright
Please note that the technologies and products reviewed in the book are the intellectual property of Google and their partners. Please also note the book itself is copyrighted material.
About the author
My name is Yaron Hollander. Yes, it's me in the picture (a bit slimmer than today). I'm an enterprise architect and also a data scientist. I'm also a bad singer and completely helpless at football.
I've worked in several different sectors, including telecom, media, transport, health, security, and business mergers.
Most of my projects over the years have been with large and complex organisations, that faced challenges in the areas of data integration, forecasting, automated personalisation, and advanced analytics.
So when the world started moving to the cloud, and rely on scalable, service-oriented solutions to such challenges, I jumped on that bandwagon and it's now quite a big part of what I do.
Blog
Check out some recent blog posts on Medium.com with some bits from the book:
Click here for my post about choosing the right database on GCP.
Click here for my post about protecting your GCP resources.
Click here for my post about choosing a load balancing approach.
Samples from the book
The book is split into 10 chapters: GCP basics; Compute services; Container services; Storage services; Databases; Other data services; Networking services; Security services; System operation; Exam preparation.
Here's a random selection of material from some of these chapters. Click any of these bubbles to see a bit more. It's a bit out of context when shown here, because it includes a lot of jargon, acronyms and abbreviations, but in the book we go through all these one by one before starting to use them. The book is also colour-coded by topic, and every GCP service is shown in a colour that tells you which chapter contains more info.
Get the book
I'm not directly involved in selling the book, but you can get it from most online booksellers, and also order it at real bookstores. Here's a very partial list of online sellers where you get the book.
Barnes & Noble
Browns Books for Students
Books Depository
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Bokus
Waterstones
There's only a paper version at this stage. There are some logistical reasons why I couldn't release a digital one yet. Please get in touch if you'd like me to tell you more! Please also feel free to contact me with any other question about the book, what's in it and what's not.