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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

Cloud-native toolkit


Now that we have a firm understanding of the and strategies around architecting scalable and available systems, in this section, we will introduce tools, products, and open source projects to help implement these strategies. These tools will help you design more mature systems along the Automation and Application Centric Design axes of the CNMM.

Simian Army

The Simian Army is a suite of tools made available by Netflix on GitHub as an open source project. The army consists of monkeys (different tools) ranging from Chaos Monkey and Janitor Monkey to Conformity Monkey. Each monkey specializes in a certain objective, such as bringing down a subsystem, removing underutilized resources, or resources that do not conform to predefined rules (such as tagging). Using the Simian Army tool is a great way to test your systems in a gameday-like situation, where your engineers and admins are on the alert and are ready to remedy the system if it fails to deal with the outcome of the Simian...