Deploying Programmable Global Front Ends for Internet-Facing Apps and Content

Discover how to design and deploy a Google Cloud global front end for protecting, scaling, and delivering web experiences from on-cloud or on-premise infrastructure. Explore the components of the global front end, including load balancing, CDN, and web protection with DDoS mitigation. Dive into programmability using service extension callouts and learn to design for multi-cloud and on-premise scenarios. Gain insights into integrating with continuous integration/development workflows, watch a practical demonstration, and hear from a customer about their real-world use case and lessons learned. This 44-minute conference talk from Google Cloud Next 2024 covers topics such as Global Front End, Service Extensions, DDoS Web Protection, Web Performance, Global Load Balancers, CICD Automation Toolkit, Connectivity Patterns, and simplified operations for internet-facing applications and content.

Introduction
What is Global Front End
Service Extensions
Demo
Example
DDoS Web Protection
Web Performance
Catchpoint Partnership
Global Load Balancers
CICD Automation Toolkit
Agenda
GCP VM Containers
Connectivity Patterns
Uber Edge
Uber Example
GCP Example
Other GCB Products
Envoy
Lisbon example
Brazil example
Simplified operations
Summary