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Cloud Native Anti-Patterns

Avoiding Common Mistakes and Driving Success with Best Practices and Real-World Cases

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Mar 2025
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Description

Build a resilient, cloud-native foundation by tackling common anti-patterns head on with practical strategies, cultural shifts, and technical fixes across AWS, Azure, and GCP

Key Features

  • Identify common anti-patterns in agile cloud-native delivery and learn to adopt good habits
  • Learn high-performing cloud-native delivery with expert strategies and real-world examples
  • Get prescriptive guidance on how to spot and remediate anti-patterns in your organization
  • Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Successfully transitioning to a cloud-native architecture demands more than just new tools—it requires a change in mindset. Written by cloud transformation experts Gerald Bachlmayr, Aiden Ziegelaar, Alan Blockley, and Bojan Zivic—this guide shows you how to identify and remediate cloud anti-patterns, manage FinOps, meet security goals, and understand cloud storage, thus steering your organization to become truly cloud native. You will develop the skills necessary to navigate the cloud native landscape, irrespective of the platform: AWS. Azure or GCP!
You’ll start by exploring the events that shaped our understanding of the modern cloud-native stack. Through practical examples, you’ll learn how to implement a suitable governance model, adopt FinOps and DevSecOps best practices, and create an effective cloud native roadmap. You will identify common anti-patterns and refactor them into best practices.
The book examines potential pitfalls and suggests solutions that enhance business agility. You’ll also gain expert insights into observability, migrations, and testing of cloud native solutions.

What you will learn

  • Get to grips with the common anti-patterns of building on and migrating to the cloud
  • Identify security pitfalls before they become insurmountable
  • Acknowledge governance challenges before they become problematic
  • Drive cultural change in your organization for cloud adoption
  • Explore examples across the SDLC phases and technology layers
  • Minimize the operational risk of releases using powerful deployment strategies
  • Refactor or migrate a solution from an anti-pattern to a best practice design
  • Effectively adopt supply chain security practices

Who this book is for

This book is for cloud professionals with any level of experience who want to deepen their knowledge and guide their organization toward cloud-native success. It is Ideal for cloud architects, engineers (cloud, software, data, or network), cloud security experts, technical leaders, and cloud operations personnel. While no specific expertise is required, a background in architecture, software development, data, networks, operations, or governance will be helpful.

Table of Contents

  1. The Benefits of Cloud Native and Common Misunderstandings
  2. Strategizing Your Shift to Cloud Native
  3. Rethinking Governance in a Cloud-Native Paradigm
  4. How to Avoid a Bill Shock
  5. Deliver Rapidly and Continuously without Compromising Security
  6. How to Meet Your Security and Compliance Goals
  7. Expressing Your Business Goals in Application Code
  8. Don't Get Lost in the Data Jungle
  9. Connecting It All
  10. Observing Your Architecture
  11. Running It without Breaking It
  12. Migrating from Old to New
  13. How Do You Know It All Works?
  14. How to Get Started with Your Cloud Native Improvement Journey
  15. Transitioning
PDF ISBN: 978-1-83620-058-1
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2025 Packt Publishing
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 446
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Computer sciences, other
BISAC subjects:
COM051240,
COM011000,
COM043050
Thema subjects:
UYD,
UYF,
UTN

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