It is easy enough to say that we will architecture cloud-native systems based on Reactive principles and leverage event streaming to ultimately turn the cloud into the database, but it is another thing entirely to show how the pieces fit together. There is a relatively small collection of proven patterns that can be leveraged as templates to build cloud-native systems that solve a wide variety of valuable problems. Many of these patterns may already be familiar, but have cloud-native twists.
Each pattern describes a solution to a specific problem in the context of cloud-native systems and addresses various forces, issues, and trade-offs. The patterns are interrelated and thus can be pieced together to build systems composed of bounded isolated components. There are many ways to document patterns. Martin Fowler has an excellent summary of various pattern forms...
