Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures

by Matt Stine

Adoption of cloud-native application architectures is helping many organizations transform their IT into a force for true agility in the marketplace. This O’Reilly report defines the unique characteristics of cloud-native application architectures such as microservices and twelve-factor applications.

Author Matt Stine also examines the cultural, organizational, and technical changes necessary to migrate traditional monolithic applications and service-oriented architectures to cloud-native architectures. You’ll also find a Migration Cookbook, with recipes for decomposing monolithic applications into microservices, implementing fault-tolerant patterns, and performing automated testing of cloud-native services.

This report discusses application architectures that include:

The Twelve-Factor App: A collection of cloud-native app architecture patterns
Microservices: Independently deployable services that do one thing well
Self-Service Agile Infrastructure: Platforms for rapid, repeatable, and consistent provisioning of app environments and backing services
API-based Collaboration: Published and versioned APIs that allow interaction between services in a cloud-native app architecture
Anti-Fragility: Systems that get stronger when subjected to stress
About the Author
Matt Stine, a technical product manager at Pivotal, is a 15-year enterprise IT veteran with experience across numerous business domains. With emphasis on lean/agile methodologies, DevOps, architectural patterns, and programming paradigms, Matt is investigating a combination of techniques to help corporate IT departments function like startups.

Genres: Technology, Software, Architecture, Computer Science, Technical

52 pages, ebook

First published February 1, 2015

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I didn't get much out of the "cookbook" portion of this publication, the rest was all quite useful, content-rich, and clearly written. A very nice overview of a lot of modern architectural considerations for enterprise software development that touched on items in enough depth to give the reader some sense of the real substance behind each, while also pointing to a number of resources for further reading.

[João Lucas Santana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recommended for people that wants to increase their awareness.

Very easy reading, talks broadly about many subjects well established in the industry. Since it is very short reading, does not go in the details of strategies to implement all the changes and problems generated.

This books mentions the Technical, Cultural and Organizational changes required to develop cloud-native applications. Going a littler deeper in the technical part, mentioning some tools of the Java ecosystem (Spring Cloud and Netflix).

More research and readings are necessary to go deeper.
For the technical part, I'd recommend Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/)

[Galichka Sidarenka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read that provides a decent high level overview of cloud-native application architectures, reasons why organizations may choose to move to cloud computing and changes that most enterprises will need to make in order to adopt cloud -native application architectures.
Would recommend to those completely new to the topic.

[Santosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still relevant and consice

[Piet van Dongen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice quick read to get up to speed with the terminology and practices surrounding cloud-native development.

[Finalight · Rating 4 out of 5]

Explains well enough about the strategy to migrate from monolithic architecture to microservice and cloud architecture infrastructure

[Vijayakrishna Pondala · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick intro.