Chapter 4: Developing Applications in a Cloud Native Way

Cloud-native development practice is the key to cloud modernization and application migration success. Cloud-native development is a lightweight, modular, and highly automated comprehensive approach to the different activities of cloud-agnostic application development processes, such as the following:

• Developing functionality as independent services and exposing them via an API
• Ensuring the high availability and high throughput of the application
• Establishing a DevOps pipeline for the application’s continuous integration and deployment
• Ensuring the testing of unit functions, integration, regression, and the performance of the application
• Ensuring clean code of a high quality
• Identifying the threat model for applications and taking the necessary steps
• Establishing the process for a disaster exercise with a disaster recovery test
• Establishing a release process for the application

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