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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 8. Monitoring

In the previous chapter, we continued our deep dive into the human factors of cloud-native. We discussed the need to realign our testing strategies within the context of cloud-native systems. We shifted testing all the way to the left and made it an integral part of the deployment pipeline by employing isolated and transitive testing techniques to overcome the complexities of testing distributed systems. We also discussed the emergence of the Test Engineering discipline.

In this chapter, we will continue to discuss the human factors of cloud-native. We will shift some aspects of testing all the way to the right into production to assert the success of continuous deployments and increase team confidence. We cover the following topics:

  • Shifting testing to the right
  • Key performance indicators
  • TestOps
  • Real and synthetic traffic
  • Observability
  • Alerting
  • Focusing on mean time to recovery
  • Performance tuning