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Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

By : John Gilbert
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Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

By: John Gilbert

Overview of this book

Build systems that leverage the benefits of the cloud and applications faster than ever before with cloud-native development. This book focuses on architectural patterns for building highly scalable cloud-native systems. You will learn how the combination of cloud, reactive principles, devops, and automation enable teams to continuously deliver innovation with confidence. Begin by learning the core concepts that make these systems unique. You will explore foundational patterns that turn your database inside out to achieve massive scalability with cloud-native databases. You will also learn how to continuously deliver production code with confidence by shifting deployment and testing all the way to the left and implementing continuous observability in production. There's more—you will also learn how to strangle your monolith and design an evolving cloud-native system. By the end of the book, you will have the ability to create modern cloud-native systems.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned that cloud-native systems are built on the principles of Reactive architecture. We use asynchronous, message-driven, inter-component communication to build resilient components that are responsive and elastic. Event streaming is the mechanism for inter-component communication. Components publish domain events to notify the system of their state changes. Other components consume these events to trigger their behavior and cache pertinent information in materialized views. These materialized views make components responsive by providing a dedicated cache that is continuously warmed. They act as bulkheads to make components resilient to failures in upstream components, because the latest known state is available in local storage. This effectively turns the cloud into the database by leveraging value-added cloud services, turning the database inside...