Preface

Businesses today are evolving so rapidly that they are resorting the elasticity of the cloud to provide a platform to build and deploy their highly scalable applications. This means that developers now are faced with the challenge of building build applications that are native to the cloud. For this, they need to be aware of the environment, tools, and resources they're coding against. 

The book begins by explaining the driving factors for cloud adoption and shows you how cloud deployment is different from regular application deployment on a standard data centre. You will learn about design patterns specific to applications running in the cloud and find out how you can build a microservice in Java Spring using REST APIs.

You will then take a deep dive into the life cycle of building, testing, and deploying applications with maximum automation to reduce the deployment cycle time. Gradually, you will move on to configuring the AWS and Azure platforms and working with their APIs to deploy your application. Finally, you'll take a look at API design concerns and their best practices. You'll also learn how to migrate an existing monolithic application into distributed cloud-native applications.

By the end, you will understand how to build and monitor a scalable, resilient, and robust cloud-native application that is always available and fault tolerant.