Alex Meade

Understanding GCP Application Services

October 24, 2017 Alex Meade Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

PaaS solutions were some of the first services offered by cloud providers. These solutions came early since they provide a tremendous value of allowing a developer to deploy their code without having to request or provision infrastructure, which may take days or weeks. GCP has a number of such PaaS solutions that allow you to deploy your application without the complexity of provisioning and managing infrastructure. These solutions fall into two families: serverless applications and Linux containers.

Understanding GCP Augmented Infrastructure

October 10, 2017 Alex Meade Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

This is part two of a three-part overview discussing architecting on Google Cloud Platform. In the first part of this series, Understanding GCP Infrastructure Services, we discussed a few of the infrastructure components available in GCP. Now, let’s discuss some of the products that augment this infrastructure. These solutions act as force-multipliers, which allow you …

Understanding GCP Infrastructure Services

September 26, 2017 Alex Meade Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

There is a wide-range of services available in GCP ranging from Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to completely managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In the first part of this series, we will discuss the available infrastructure components and how they provide a powerful and flexible foundation on which to build your applications.