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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 4. Boundary Patterns

In the previous chapter, we began our discussion of cloud-native patterns with foundation patterns. We leverage fully managed cloud-native databases and event streaming services to empower self-sufficient, full-stack teams to create globally scalable systems composed of bounded isolated components, which, following Reactive principles, are responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven. All inter-component communication is performed via asynchronous event streaming, which is typically triggered using the Database-First variant of the Event Sourcing pattern. With these bounded isolated components, we create proper functional and technical bulkheads, such that teams can continuously deliver innovation with confidence.

In this chapter, we will continue our discussion of cloud-native patterns. We will build on the foundation patterns and discuss the patterns that operate at the boundaries of cloud-native systems. The boundaries are where the system interacts with...