Reviewing Chapter 5, Becoming Cloud Native
A cloud-native approach to software development was the main thread of this chapter, together with agility and innovation. Cloud native is a very specific way of developing, packaging, and deploying your services, and we discussed the intricacies in this chapter. We also started counting the cloud-native services in Azure. We didn’t get to them all, but we gave you enough direction for you to be able to discover more of them as you need them. Being cloud native requires an understanding of cloud technologies such as containers, microservices, serverless computing, infrastructure as code, and the like. Get up to speed on these topics before deciding to become cloud native. But it’s worth it – so much so that we even tried to scare you into adopting cloud native by claiming your competitors were doing that as well.
Then, we went on to discuss agility. And if you remember one thing from this book, remember that agility...