Scalable and Available

In the previous chapters of this book, we defined what a cloud-native architecture is and the impact these architectures have on people, processes, and technology. The journey to building cloud-native systems is neither straightforward nor short. It can take years to fully realize the potential of going cloud-native as your organization and culture matures. Skill sets and problem solving approaches need to change over time. Mistakes are made, lessons are learned, and systems evolve. We introduced a framework for defining the journey to cloud-native. The journey impacts your business, people, governance, platform security, and operations. Each application and each company can have varying levels of maturity depending on where they are in their journey. In order to better understand this journey, we established a Cloud Native Maturity Model. This is a useful...