Defining the Service

• Design in this class.
• State and solution.
• Measurement.
• Gathering requirements, SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs (key performance indicators).

Business-logic layer design

• Microservices architecture.
• GCP 12-factor support.
• Mapping compute needs to Google Cloud Platform processing services.
• Compute system provisioning.

Data layer design

• Classifying and characterizing data.
• Data ingest and data migration.
• Identification of storage needs and mapping to Google Cloud Platform storage systems.

Network layer design

• Network edge configuration.
• Network configuration for data transfer within the service, including load balancing and network location.
• Network integration with other environments, including on premises and multi-cloud.

Design for resiliency, scalability, and disaster recovery

• Failure due to loss of resources.
• Failure due to overload.
• Strategies for coping with failure.
• Business continuity and disaster recovery, including restore strategy and data lifecycle management.
• Scalable and resilient design.

Design for security

• Google Cloud Platform security.
• Network access control and firewalls.
• Protections against denial of service.
• Resource sharing and isolation.
• Data encryption and key management.
• Identity access and auditing.

Capacity planning and cost optimization

• Capacity planning.
• Pricing.

Deployment, monitoring and alerting, and incident response

• Deployment.
• Monitoring and alerting.
• Incident response.