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! 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). 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.

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