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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

Application centric design (CNMM Axis-2)


In the previous section, we saw some of the key cloud-native services that AWS has to offer. Now, in this section, we will look at the second axis of CNMM on how to create AWS native architectures. Although there are multiple different architectures and approaches, we will focus on two key patterns – serverless and microservices. In fact, these two patterns are related as well since the services that help us create a serverless pattern are also applicable to creating smaller, single functionality, fine-grained services in a system. So, let's explore more about how to create a microservice that is also serverless in nature in the next section.

Serverless microservice

The core concept around a serverless microservice is a three-step pipeline, such as the one shown in the following diagram:

Let's discuss these steps in detail.

API trigger

The microservice can be invoked in two ways as follows:

  • An end user who's directly interacting with a web-based portal...