Over the course of this book, we have seen how to develop an enterprise application using different principles, be it a monolithic way of application development or through the use of small microservices for developing the application. But these things converge at a common point. For our applications to be made available for general use, they need to be deployed at some place outside the development environment that is accessible to the general users.
This infrastructure and the type of deployment chosen for a particular application need to offer a certain set of features for the deployment to be successful:
- High uptime: Any infrastructure where an application is deployed needs to provide high uptime so as to provide a near interruption free service of the application to its users. If the infrastructure is vulnerable to frequent downtimes, then...