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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)

Foundation Patterns

In the previous chapter, we began our deep dive into the architectural aspects of cloud-native systems with a look at their anatomy. To create these globally scalable systems, we effectively turn the cloud into the database. Following Reactive principles, we leverage event streaming to turn the database inside out by replicating data across components to maximize responsiveness, resilience, and elasticity. Ultimately, we create proper functional and technical bulkheads, so that teams can continuously deliver innovation with confidence.

In this chapter, we begin our discussion of cloud-native patterns. We will discuss the patterns that provide the foundation for creating bounded isolated components. We eliminate all synchronous inter-component communication and build our foundation on asynchronous inter-component communication, replication, and eventual consistency...