Yuki Tanabe
Staff Platform Engineer
Yuki maintains internal developer platforms used by four thousand engineers. Her work focuses on the narrow path between too much abstraction and none at all.
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Google Cloud in Depth
A Systems Engineer's Guide to GCP's Actual Model
By Yuki Tanabe and Sam Okonkwo
Google CloudAdvancedArchitecturePlatform Engineering
Google Cloud rewards engineers who understand the internal logic behind its abstractions — projects, resource hierarchy, IAM inheritance, and the global network — and quietly punishes those who treat it as a differently-named AWS.
Yuki Tanabe and Sam Okonkwo lay out the model directly: how the resource hierarchy actually resolves permissions, why the global VPC changes your topology assumptions, what Google's load balancers are really doing, and where the managed services leak.
The result is a book you can read once and then use as a reference for years, because it explains structure rather than menus.
What you'll learn
- Reason correctly about IAM inheritance through the resource hierarchy
- Exploit the global VPC instead of recreating regional topologies
- Choose between Cloud Run, GKE, and GCE from first principles
- Predict where managed abstractions will leak under load
Table of contents
- 01The Resource Hierarchy Is the Product34 pp
- 02IAM Inheritance and Its Discontents46 pp
- 03The Global VPC40 pp
- 04Load Balancing at Google Scale38 pp
- 05Cloud Run, GKE, GCE: A Decision Procedure44 pp
- 06Where the Abstractions Leak42 pp
- 07Observability That Tells the Truth36 pp
7 chapters · 386 pages total
Details
- ISBN
- 978-1-959321-02-1
- Edition
- 1st
- Pages
- 386
- Published
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB
- Platform
- Google Cloud
About the authors
Sam Okonkwo
Site Reliability Engineer
Sam has carried the pager for systems on both AWS and GCP and writes the runbook they wish had existed at 3 a.m.