Название: The Cloud Native Attitude: How the world's best companies use the cloud to speed up, scale up and find product market fit
Автор: Anne Currie, Jamie Dobson
Издательство: Right Book Press
Год: 2025
Страниц: 162
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

The Cloud Native Attitude puts the power of cutting-edge cloud technology right into your hands by exploring what it truly means in practice. Moving beyond the jargon and tech-talk, it offers clear insights into cloud native's benefits, challenges and real-world applications. This succinct and easy-to-understand guide draws on interviews with industry leaders and decades of hands-on expertise to demystify cloud native principles and help you navigate your own adoption journey more confidently and effectively – all with a little bit of fun too!

- Understand cloud native: Learn about cloud native technologies, including microservices, containers and orchestration and how they can enhance scalability and to time to market for your business.
- Learn from real-world applications: Discover illuminating case studies from organisations such as the Financial Times and Skyscanner, illustrating practical implementations and lessons learned when adopting cloud native approaches.
- Strategise for success: Gain actionable insights on overcoming the challenges, embracing the opportunities, and maximising the potential of cloud native technologies to accelerate innovation and deliver excellence.

Cloud native is the name of a particular approach to designing, building and running applications based on the cloud (infrastructure as a service, IaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS). In the first edition of this book, we argued that being cloud native was also tightly tied to using a microservice architecture, and for much of 2019 and 2020 the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s definition of cloud native agreed with us. Since then, however, the CNCF definition has softened its language around microservices, reflecting the fact that the pendulum seems to be swinging back a little towards monoliths as more organisations discover the trade-offs, particularly around operational complexity, that come with a microservices architecture.

Likewise, in our first edition, we suggested that a cloud native approach relied on containers and orchestrators such as Kubernetes. While this remains by far the most popular approach, the rise of serverless options, and particularly function as a service (FaaS) offerings such as Amazon Web Services’ Lambda and Azure functions, does offer an alternative that can support a surprisingly wide range of use cases, from the BBC’s iPlayer to Honeycomb’s data read/write layer, as well as the more obvious ecommerce use cases such as second-hand car start-up cinch, which we meet later in the book. It should be said that under the hood, all the FaaS implementations we’re aware of make use of some sort of container-ish technology, but this is sufficiently abstracted away from the developer that you are not particularly aware of it.

With expert knowledge from seasoned professionals in the field, this book equips you with the tools, knowledge and, most importantly, the right attitude to transform your understanding of the possibilities of cloud native. Whether you're just starting out or looking to refine your strategy, this essential and accessible read provides the clarity you need in a complex landscape.

Cloud native lies at the intersection of all our best ideas of rigour, pace and execution in software delivery. And there’s no better place to start than with The Cloud Native Attitude. – Greg Hawkins, senior advisor and former CTO, Starling Bank

The key to keeping up with the pace of change in technology lies in using the cloud, but the key to getting ahead lies in loving the cloud. This book is a great way to start loving the cloud, helping you get ahead of that pace of change. – Andy Linham, principal strategy manager, Vodafone