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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)

Defense in depth

Security and redundancy go hand in hand. Each layer of the system architecture has its own fortification. This redundancy ensures that if an outer layer is breached, then the next layer can potentially thwart the attack or at least slow it down long enough for the initial breach to be repaired. The number of layers in our cloud-native components is purposefully shallow. All inter-component communication is performed asynchronously via event streaming and all synchronous intra-component communication is with highly available, value-added cloud services, such as cloud-native databases. Our boundary components, such as a BFF component, have the most layers with an edge layer, a component layer, and a data layer; whereas fully asynchronous components will not have an edge layer, because they are entirely internal. The following diagram summarizes the topics we...