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Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS - Second Edition

By : Sean Keery, Clive Harber, Marcus Young
Book Image

Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS - Second Edition

By: Sean Keery, Clive Harber, Marcus Young

Overview of this book

Whether you're just getting your feet wet in cloud infrastructure or already creating complex systems, this book will guide you through using the patterns to fit your system needs. Starting with patterns that cover basic processes such as source control and infrastructure-as-code, the book goes on to introduce cloud security practices. You'll then cover patterns of availability and scalability and get acquainted with the ephemeral nature of cloud environments. You'll also explore advanced DevOps patterns in operations and maintenance, before focusing on virtualization patterns such as containerization and serverless computing. In the final leg of your journey, this book will delve into data persistence and visualization patterns. You'll get to grips with architectures for processing static and dynamic data, as well as practices for managing streaming data. By the end of this book, you will be able to design applications that are tolerant of underlying hardware failures, resilient against an unexpected influx of data, and easy to manage and replicate.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Amazon Web Services
Index

Chapter 6. Ephemeral Environments - Sandboxes for Experiments

In this chapter, we will supply additional design patterns to aid in your success in using the cloud services. The financial benefits, the advantages for your customers, and the improved velocity of your software engineers will be considered. Throughout this book, we have already covered many patterns that can be applied to different use cases, but are flexible in many ways. They can be mixed and matched, and even stacked to create very cool setups. This is only one piece of the much larger puzzle, however, of getting into the cloud mindset.

In brief, we will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Developer productivity
  • Exploring deployment strategies
  • Facilitating self-service
  • Using multiple environments
  • Testing your environment