Confidence, confidence, and more confidence: the promise of cloud-native is to enable companies to rapidly and continuously deliver innovation to their customers with confidence. Throughout this book, the speed of innovation and the stability of the system are the primary motivations driving the architecture of cloud-native systems and the methods we employ to deliver these systems. Confidence is so important that a crisis of confidence will stifle innovation. Cloud-native drives cultural change precisely because we build upstream trust by increasing the business's confidence in our cloud-native architecture and practices.
Disposable infrastructure increases confidence because our automated deployments become repeatable and routine. Bounded isolated components increase our confidence because they provide proper bulks to limit the blast radius...