Steve (Satish) Sangapu - The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud: The what, why, and how of application modernization on Google Cloud

The what, why, and how of application modernization on Google Cloud

Steve (Satish) Sangapu

Dheeraj Panyam

Jason Marston

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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To the memory of my father, Ishwar, and my mother, Savithri, for their sacrifices and exemplifying that hard work has positive outcomes. To my wife, Sanju, for being my loving and supportive partner, and to my children, Riya and Risha, for keeping us on our toes.

Steve (Satish) Sangapu

To my parents, who have encouraged me in writing this book, with their push for tenacity ringing in my ears.

Dheeraj Panyam

Steve (Satish) Sangapu has been working with software since 2000. He specializes in migrating and modernizing applications from monoliths to containerized microservices as well as creating data engineering pipelines to mine vast amounts of structured and unstructured data.

He has extensive experience successfully leading large, cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams utilizing modern Agile development methodologies while collaborating effectively with product teams in creating high-performance, fault-tolerant, and high-availability systems.

He also holds seven patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and certifications from Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute and Google Cloud.

I want to thank the people who have given me and the people around me love and support in different ways in my life.

Dheeraj Panyam has been working in the IT industry since 2000. His experience spans diverse domains (optical, telecom, retail, and healthcare) and covers all phases of the SDLC, including application development, production support, QA automation, and cloud architecture. He lives in India and collaborates with a Google Cloud consulting company, helping them design solutions and architecture set up on public cloud platforms.

He holds multiple Google Cloud certifications in addition to other certifications in networking and testing.(in new line)

Jason Marston is a Cloud Solution Architect based in England. He was recruited by Microsoft because of his OSS background. Jason has worked with Java since version 1 and has a long history with open source. He has over 30 years' of experience in developing software and now helps organizations migrate and modernize legacy applications to the cloud. Jason was an SME in the Worldwide Communities project at Microsoft and, as a part of the leadership team for those communities, helped many people solve their problems by adopting Java on Azure. In his spare time, Jason reads science fiction books and has two children who think he is a geek/nerd.

Radhakrishnan (Krishna) Gopal is a cloud evangelist, seasoned technology professional, and mentor with over 22 years of industry experience in all major cloud hyperscalers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. He is currently helping organizations to drive business value through cloud adoption and innovation. He has worked in many facets of IT throughout his career and delivered high-quality, mission-critical, and innovative technology solutions leveraging multi-cloud, data, AI, and intelligent automation. He is a Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Google data engineer, Azure certified solutions architect expert, Azure data engineer, data science associate, AI engineer, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate. He loves to explore new frontiers of technology and impart them in solutions to make his clients very successful.