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Cloud Native Architectures

By : Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, Piyum Zonooz
Book Image

Cloud Native Architectures

By: Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, 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. To harness this, businesses need to refresh their development models and architectures when they find they don’t port to the cloud. Cloud Native Architectures demonstrates three essential components of deploying modern cloud native architectures: organizational transformation, deployment modernization, and cloud native architecture patterns. This book starts with a quick introduction to cloud native architectures that are used as a base to define and explain what cloud native architecture is and is not. You will learn what a cloud adoption framework looks like and develop cloud native architectures using microservices and serverless computing as design principles. You’ll then explore the major pillars of cloud native design including scalability, cost optimization, security, and ways to achieve operational excellence. In the concluding chapters, you will also learn about various public cloud architectures ranging from AWS and Azure to the Google Cloud Platform. By the end of this book, you will have learned the techniques to adopt cloud native architectures that meet your business requirements. You will also understand the future trends and expectations of cloud providers.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Introducing Cloud Native Architecture

The advent of the cloud has led to a new paradigm in designing, implementing, and ongoing maintenance of computer systems. While there are many different names for this new paradigm, the one most commonly used is cloud native architectures. In this book, we will explore what exactly cloud native architectures are, why they are new and different, and how they are being implemented across a wide range of global companies. As the name suggests, it's all about the cloud and using cloud vendor services to design these architectures to solve business problems in new, robust, and secure ways. The purpose of this chapter is to explain and define what cloud native architectures are, and provide some insights into the pros, cons, and myths of cloud native architectures. We will explore what it means to be cloud native, understand the spectrum and components that are required for this type of architecture, and appreciate the journey that a company would need to undertake to move up in maturity on the model.