Migrating to
Cloud-Native
Application
Architectures
Matt Stine
Compliments of
Matt Stine
Migrating to Cloud-Native
Application Architectures
978-1-491-92679-6
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Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures
by Matt Stine
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Table of Contents
The Rise of Cloud-Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Why Cloud-Native Application Architectures? 2
Defining Cloud-Native Architectures 7
Summary 13
Changes Needed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Cultural Change 15
Organizational Change 21
Technical Change 23
Summary 27
Migration Cookbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Decomposition Recipes 29
Distributed Systems Recipes 33
Summary 50
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