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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)

Test engineering

The role of testers is changing. The key word here is "changing". Automation is eating the software world. Testing has traditionally been a largely manual effort. More often than not, unit testing has been the only testing that is automated and all other testing is performed manually. In this chapter, we will discuss how to reliably extend test automation all the way through end-to-end testing with a technique I call transitive testing. All this automation has the testing community wondering whether or not their jobs will disappear. I think it is fair to say that the traditional role of testers will disappear, but will be replaced with higher value responsibilities.

These new responsibilities do not include writing automated tests. Writing automated tests is a development task. Developers spend years honing their skills. Treating test automation as anything...