Summary

Cloud-native app development is an extremely effective method for developing powerful applications that are based on relatively simple principles. However, despite the seemingly simple premise behind cloud-native app development, these applications, when scaled up, become increasingly complex and in order to maintain their core characteristics of resiliency, scalability, and agility, developers should follow the right principles, best practices, design patterns, and tools. The first part of this book (consisting of the first three chapters) goes through each of these factors in detail.

Now that you have a basic but strong understanding of how the cloud-native ecosystem works, the numerous benefits it offers over traditional app development, as well as its underlying principles, we can begin learning about the actual tools developers use to build cloud-native applications in the next chapter.