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Architecting Cloud Native Applications

By : Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, John Gilbert, Piyum Zonooz
Book Image

Architecting Cloud Native Applications

By: Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, John Gilbert, Piyum Zonooz

Overview of this book

Cloud computing has proven to be the most revolutionary IT development since virtualization. Cloud native architectures give you the benefit of more flexibility over legacy systems. This Learning Path teaches you everything you need to know for designing industry-grade cloud applications and efficiently migrating your business to the cloud. It begins by exploring the basic patterns that turn your database inside out to achieve massive scalability. You’ll learn how to develop cloud native architectures using microservices and serverless computing as your design principles. Then, you’ll explore ways to continuously deliver production code by implementing continuous observability in production. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn about various public cloud architectures ranging from AWS and Azure to the Google Cloud Platform, and understand the future trends and expectations of cloud providers. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll have learned the techniques to adopt cloud native architectures that meet your business requirements. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices by John Gilbert • Cloud Native Architectures by Erik Farr et al.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 13. Scalable and Available

In the previous chapters of this book, we defined what a cloud-native architecture is and the impact these architectures have on people, processes, and technology. The journey to building cloud-native systems is neither straightforward nor short. It can take years to fully realize the potential of going cloud-native as your organization and culture matures. Skill sets and problem solving approaches need to change over time. Mistakes are made, lessons are learned, and systems evolve. We introduced a framework for defining the journey to cloud-native. The journey impacts your business, people, governance, platform security, and operations. Each application and each company can have varying levels of maturity depending on where they are in their journey. In order to better understand this journey, we established a Cloud Native Maturity Model. This is a useful model to understand where your organization, application stack, or system currently is on the journey...