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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)

Secure and Reliable

Security is often the first criterion considered by most decision makers in enterprises when they decide to adopt any new technology. The ability to deploy securely, then protect and react to security threats, is paramount to success. This has been true since the dawn of computer systems and will remain no different for the foreseeable future. Overall IT system security is compounded by the risk of losing business due to exposed, leaked, or mismanaged customer data. There are dozens of examples just in the past decade of businesses going under due to security events.

The once-dominant internet search giant Yahoo, while in acquisition discussions with Verizon, announced it had been the victim of an attack. The hack exposed the real names, email addresses, dates of birth, and telephone numbers of 500 million users in 2014. This was surpassed months later...