Understanding cloud and cloud-native development

Before going further into the substance of the map, let's introduce the notion of cloud and cloud-native development, which you might not be familiar with. The cloud is a particular ecosystem, and we should ideally leverage its unique capabilities to minimize frictions and frustrations. The best way to achieve this goal is to develop cloud and cloud-native applications. Developing cloud and cloud-native solutions also transforms the way we design applications and the type of frameworks we might use or build, and that is what we are going to explore in this section.

One of the biggest challenges when starting to work with cloud and cloud-native approaches is the fact that applications are distributed. In traditional IT, we still have many monoliths, or in the best case, we work with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA has proven its value and is certainly still future proof; however, as always, the IT world has evolved, and...