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Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

By : John Gilbert
Book Image

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)

Empower self-sufficient, full-stack teams

We discussed Conway's Law in Chapter 1, Understanding Cloud Native Concepts, but it bears repeating, because it is important to empower self-sufficient, full-stack teams to succeed with cloud-native.

"organizations are constrained to produce application designs which are copies of their communication structures"

We are leaving the legacy system in place during the migration so you will want to leave your legacy teams in place to support it. We will assume that you have optimized the communications channels to support your legacy system, so leave those teams in place as-is. However, to build and support your new cloud-native system, you will need to build cloud-native teams and empower them to go about their business.

Cloud-native teams are self-sufficient. This is another way of saying that they are cross-functional. Each...