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Architecting Cloud Native Applications

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

Service-oriented architectures and microservices


The origin of cloud development for the leading CSPs stems from the pain of managing monolithic systems. As each company (Amazon.com retail site, Google.com's indexing of the web) was experiencing tremendous growth, the traditional IT systems were incapable of keeping up with the rate of expansion and evolving at a necessary pace to enable the innovation that was needed. This story is true and well-documented in the public sphere for both AWS and GCP. As their internal systems matured around these services (provided initially as internal only to product development teams), Amazon took the step to provide these services to external customers on a utility-based billing system.

Many businesses and architects now see the virtue in this decoupling process, calling the fully decoupled environment a service-oriented architecture (SOA). We define SOAs as digital environments where each constituent system providing the lowest level of application functionality...