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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

Backend For Frontend


Create dedicated and self-sufficient backend components to support the features of user-focused frontend applications.

Context, problem, and forces

Cloud-native, Reactive systems are composed of bounded isolated components, which provide proper bulkheads to enable the components to be responsive, resilient, and elastic. All inter-component communication is accomplished via asynchronous event streaming and components leverage materialized views to cache upstream data locally. To increase availability for an increasingly mobile user base, we leverage an offline-first database to store data on devices and synchronize with the cloud. The boundary components leverage an API gateway to expose a synchronous interface, which is used to interact with a user interface. Cloud-native systems typically have multiple user bases with different user experiences, delivered over multiple channels and to multiple device types.

Our overarching objective with cloud-native is to empower self...