Architecting Cloud Native Applications

Apply cloud native patterns and practices to deliver responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven systems with confidence

Key Features
Discover best practices for applying cloud native patterns to your cloud applications
Explore ways to effectively plan resources and technology stacks for high security and fault tolerance
Gain insight into core architectural principles using real-world examples
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
Understand the difference between cloud native and traditional architecture
Automate security controls and configuration management
Minimize risk by evolving your monolithic systems into cloud native applications
Explore the aspects of migration, when and why to use it
Apply modern delivery and testing methods to continuously deliver production code
Enable massive scaling by turning your database inside out
Table of Contents
Understanding Cloud Native Concepts
The Anatomy of Cloud Native Systems
Foundation Patterns
Boundary Patterns
Control Patterns
Deployment
Testing
Monitoring
Security
Cloud Native Application Design
How to Choose Technology Stacks
Optimizing Cost
Scalable and Available
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
What's Next? Cloud Native Application Architecture Trends
Authors
Kamal Arora

Kamal Arora is an inventor, author, and technology leader with more than 15 years of IT experience. He currently works at Amazon Web Services and leads a diverse team of highly experienced solutions architects who enable global consulting partners and enterprise customers on their journey to cloud. Kamal has also led the creation of biggest global technical partnerships, set his team's vision and execution model, and incubated multiple new strategic initiatives. He's passionate about the latest innovations in the cloud and the AI/ML space, and their impact on our society and daily-life.

Erik Farr

Erik Farr is a technology leader with over 18 years in the IT industry. He has been on the leading edge of cloud technology and enterprise architecture, working with some of the largest companies and system integrators in the world. In his current role at Amazon Web Services, he leads a team of experienced solution architects to help global system integrator partners design enterprise scale cloud native architectures. Before AWS, he has experience with Capgemini and The Walt Disney Company, always working to create highly valuable outcomes for customers.

John Gilbert

John Gilbert is a CTO with over 25 years of experience of architecting and delivering distributed, event-driven systems. His cloud journey started more than five years ago and has spanned all the levels of cloud maturity—through lift and shift, software-defined infrastructure, microservices, and continuous deployment. He is the author of Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices. He finds delivering cloud-native solutions to be by far the most fun and satisfying, as they force us to rewire how we reason about systems and enable us to accomplish far more with much less effort.

Piyum Zonooz

Piyum Zonooz is a Global Partner Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he works with companies across all industries to help drive cloud adoption and re-architect products to cloud native. He's led projects in TCO analysis, infrastructure design, DevOps adoption, and complete business transformation. Prior to AWS, Piyum was a Lead Architect as part of the Accenture Cloud Practice where he led large-scale cloud adoption projects. Piyum holds a BSc and MSc. degree in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.