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Architecting Cloud Native Applications

By : Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, John Gilbert, Piyum Zonooz
Book Image

Architecting Cloud Native Applications

By: Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, John Gilbert, Piyum Zonooz

Overview of this book

Cloud computing has proven to be the most revolutionary IT development since virtualization. Cloud native architectures give you the benefit of more flexibility over legacy systems. This Learning Path teaches you everything you need to know for designing industry-grade cloud applications and efficiently migrating your business to the cloud. It begins by exploring the basic patterns that turn your database inside out to achieve massive scalability. You’ll learn how to develop cloud native architectures using microservices and serverless computing as your design principles. Then, you’ll explore ways to continuously deliver production code by implementing continuous observability in production. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn about various public cloud architectures ranging from AWS and Azure to the Google Cloud Platform, and understand the future trends and expectations of cloud providers. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll have learned the techniques to adopt cloud native architectures that meet your business requirements. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices by John Gilbert • Cloud Native Architectures by Erik Farr et al.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed how decoupling deployment from release allows self-sufficient, full-stack teams to shift deployments all the way to the left on the timeline. This helps to minimize risk and increase throughput by deploying small batch sizes, and ultimately delivers features by enabling feature flags for targeted groups of users. Decoupling deployment from release requires multiple levels of planning. The release roadmap defines how the desired functionality is divided into slices. Each slice is designed as an experiment to elicit feedback from customers about the correctness of the value proposition. A deployment roadmap defines the ordered set of tasks needed to implement a specific story as a series of task branch workflows. We discussed how a task branch workflow governs an individual instance of a deployment pipeline that is implemented using a modern, hosted CI/CD tool. A well-crafted deployment roadmap facilitates zero-downtime deployments because task ordering...