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The Serverless Development Dilemma: Local Testing in a Cloud-Native World

Picture this: You’re an AWS developer, sitting in your favorite coffee shop, sipping on your third espresso of the day. You’re working on a cutting-edge serverless application that’s going to revolutionize… well, something. But as you try to test your latest feature, you realize you’re caught in a classic “cloud” vs “localhost” conundrum. Welcome to the serverless development dilemma! The…

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Cloud Native Architecture book

Its a busy time with books at the moment. I am excited to and pleased to hear that Fernando Harris‘ first book project has been published. It can be found on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk among sites. Having been fortunate enough to be a reviewer of the book, I can say that what makes this book different from others that examine cloud-native architecture is its holistic approach to the challenge.…

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As businesses evolve, traditional monolithic applications become extremely difficult to scale, maintain, and deploy. 

Changing even a small part of the application demands rebuilding and revamping the total architecture, resulting in longer development cycles, operational bottlenecks, and system downtimes.  

By embracing modern-day microservices architecture, you can break free from these constraints and unlock new possibilities. By splitting the total application into small, independent services that communicate via APIs, you can:  

Scale individual services independently 

Deploy new features & updates quickly  

Isolate bugs and errors effectively 

Improve team productivity 

#CloudComputing #MicroservicesAdvantages #ScalabilityInTheCloud #EfficiencyAndFlexibility #CostEffectiveSolutions #CloudNativeArchitecture #DigitalTransformation #InnovationInTechnology #ModernizingInfrastructure #BusinessAgility #benefitsofmicroservices

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Cloud native deals with building, deploying, and managing modern applications in cloud computing environments to fully benefit from the scalability, flexibility, and efficiency provided by the cloud. 

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Top 10 Cloud Native Development Strategies for Building Successful Applications

Introduction

Cloud native, a term commonly encountered in modern software development, signifies a fundamental shift in how applications are constructed and deployed. At its core, being cloud native represents an approach where applications are intentionally designed to utilize cloud infrastructure, rather than a traditional development more of capitalizing on its scalability, adaptability, and efficiency. In this blog, we explore the world of cloud native development strategies. We are providing you into the fundamental principles and practices that empower organizations to make the most of cloud computing’s potential in crafting resilient, highly available, and easily maintainable software solutions.

Microservices Architecture

Microservices architecture is an essential part of cloud native development techniques and has several advantages for the creation and deployment of contemporary applications. This method divides applications into smaller, independent services that may be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. Because development teams can work on discrete components, this granularity promotes agility and accelerates up the release of new features and bug fixes. Microservices are also made to be stateless and simple to replace, which increases resilience in a cloud setting where errors can happen. Cloud native microservices also make leverage on containerization and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, providing automated management, seamless scalability, and effective resource use. Additionally, this design adheres to the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and DevOps concepts, enabling an optimized, automated development process.

Here is a statement by Google Cloud on Microservices

Containers

Containers are portable, lightweight, and isolated environments used to run software programs. This makes deployment consistent and effective, which is appropriate for contemporary software development and deployment operations. They package everything required to run.

Containers play a crucial role in cloud native development approaches. They make it possible for programmers to develop an deploy softwares that take advantage of the scalability, agility, and flexibility of cloud environments. Developers may produce uniform and portable software units that work easily across a variety of cloud platforms by isolating applications and their dependencies into containers. This is in line with cloud native concepts like microservices architecture, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), and auto-scaling, enabling businesses to quickly create, release, and grow cloud native apps. Furthermore, their capability to effectively coordinate and manage application deployments.

DevOps

A cloud native development strategy that incorporates DevOps offers an innovative methodology where cloud technologies and DevOps processes merge. Microservices, containers, and orchestration, all of which abide to DevOps principles, are essential to cloud native development. Within this framework, DevOps teams are able to fully automate all phases of the software development lifecycle, from development and testing through deployment and monitoring. DevOps practices like continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) enable quick and reliable application delivery, while cloud native solutions like Kubernetes and serverless computing improve scalability and resource efficiency.

As a result, development cycles are shortened, time to market is accelerated, reliability elevates, and operational constraints are minimized. DevOps in a cloud native context is a crucial method for modern software development due to how it effortlessly combines cost-effective DevOps strategies with the pay-as-you-go model and on-demand resources of the cloud.

APIs

In order to enable smooth integration and communication between microservices and cloud native apps, APIs are fundamental to cloud native development techniques. They support modular development approaches by providing a standardized and scalable way to provide functionality, data, and services. Data access and manipulation are made simpler by cloud native APIs, which are frequently created utilizing concepts like RESTful architecture or technologies like GraphQL. They enhance agility and scalability, which are essential for cloud native applications, by abstracting away infrastructure complexities. As an integration agent between microservices and other cloud native components, APIs are crucial in ensuring interoperability across modern application ecosystems. APIs are a crucial component of any cloud native development strategy because of their flexibility and modularity, which enable developers to create scalable, robust, and effective cloud native apps that can adjust to changing business needs.

Serverless Computing

A key element of cloud native development methodologies is serverless computing. By eliminating server management from the equation, it streamlines application deployment. Developers merely concentrate on the code, which improves agility and scalability. With its function-based methodology, serverless supports modularity and makes maintenance simpler. Its cost-effectiveness lowers resource idle expenses because you only pay for actual compute consumption. As cloud providers manage infrastructure for high availability, it also enhances fault tolerance. The ability to build and deploy quickly supports the DevOps culture. For instance, In a ride-sharing app like Uber, serverless computing handles tasks like fare calculation, driver assignment, and notifications, promoting scalability and efficiency in a cloud native development strategy. Where the application doesn’t need to provision and manage a specific server to process the request.

Reference picture of modern approach to implementing the serverless Customer Data Platform

Credits: AWS

Orchestration

A key component of a cloud native development strategy is orchestration, which supports the concepts of scalability, flexibility, and resilience. Orchestration demonstrates the automated administration of containers, microservices, and infrastructure parts in the context of cloud native applications, assuring effective deployment and scaling.

Platforms for container orchestration, like Kubernetes, have emerged as a pillar of cloud native development. They automate processes like load balancing, self healing capabilities, scalability, and container deployment. The development and deployment pipeline is streamlined by this automation, which frees engineers to concentrate on producing code rather than maintaining infrastructure. The dynamic distribution of resources made possible by orchestration also helps programs adapt to shifting traffic and workloads. This elasticity guarantees high availability, cost-effectiveness, and optimal resource utilization. It also promotes the division of large monolithic apps into smaller.

During peak shopping seasons, Kubernetes can automatically scale up the containerized services to handle increased traffic. When the traffic subsides, it scales them down to save resources.

Service Mesh

A service mesh is a crucial component of cloud native development strategies. Microservices-based apps are widely used in cloud native designs, which enhances their management and observability. By providing a specific infrastructure layer for managing communication between services, service mesh enables capabilities like load balancing, security, and traffic control. By facilitating communication between services, it frees up developers to focus on business logic rather than networking difficulties. In addition, service mesh enables incremental deployments and canary releases, lowering risk and downtime during updates. Its ability to collect metrics and logs provide helpful information for diagnosing and upgrading applications, ensuring them efficient operation in shifting cloud environments. For understanding, A canary release strategy, which gradually directs a small portion of user traffic to the new version of a service while tracking its performance, can be enabled by the service mesh during a software update. The service mesh can automatically to redirect traffic to the stable version if complications arise minimizing disruptions.

Watch the video for a clear understanding what canary testing is ?

CI/CD

CI/CD automates the entire software development lifecycle, from code integration through deployment, as part of a cloud native development approach. Scalability and flexibility are increased by using cloud services like serverless computing and containerization. Automatic scalability, versioning, and rollback are made possible by software like Jenkins X and GitLab CI/CD, which smoothly connect with cloud services. As it permits modular, independent deployments, CI/CD promotes microservices design in a cloud native setting. This promotes agility. This method fully embodies the ideals of cloud native development since it accelerates development, improves reliability, and optimizes resource utilization. While preserving high availability and dependability in the cloud native environment, it makes sure that software upgrades are continuously tested and deployed, facilitating faster delivery of new features and improvements.

IaC

A key element of a cloud native development approach is infrastructure as code (IaC). Instead of using manual settings, it entails designing and supplying infrastructure and resources through code. IaC has unique benefits when used in a cloud native environment. By enabling developers to quickly spin up or pull down resources as needed, it supports the scalability of cloud native principles of elasticity. Additionally, it improves consistency and reproducibility, making sure that surroundings at various phases of development appropriately reflect one another. IaC also makes it easier for cross-functional teams to collaborate because code-based infrastructure can be shared and version-controlled. Additionally, it encourages automation, making it possible to deploy containers and microservices, both of which are essential for creating cloud native apps. Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes YAML, Docker Compose, Serverless Framework, Pulumi are some IaC tools.

Security Practices

A cloud native development strategy must include security policies to secure apps and data in dynamic cloud environments. By implementing in place stringent access rules and constant authentication, adopting a Zero Trust approach improves security. The explosion radius of potential breaches is reduced by isolation and segmentation made possible by containerization and microservices. For locating and addressing vulnerabilities, regular security audits, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing are essential. Automated DevSecOps pipelines incorporate security into the development process, facilitating quick vulnerability discovery and patching. Further strengthening protections against data breaches and unwanted access are encryption, effective identity management, and rigorous API security. To protect infrastructure and apps that are cloud native, a security-centric approach is necessary.

Conclusion

A comprehensive cloud native development strategy covers a wide array of critical components beyond those explored here. Agility is at the forefront, enabling rapid adaptation to changing business needs. Monitoring and observability provide the crucial insights needed to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues in real-time. Databases, too, play a pivotal role in maintaining data integrity and accessibility within dynamic cloud native ecosystems.

Successful companies understand that a holistic cloud native approach is not merely a technological shift but a cultural one, emphasizing collaboration, automation, and a relentless commitment to enhancing software delivery. As technology continues to evolve, embracing these strategies becomes increasingly essential for organizations aiming to thrive in the digital age

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The business sector did its best to adapt as the past two years delivered many spontaneous twists and turns. In the face of a global pandemic, offices all around the world hastily put together remote work policies. Businesses will continue to employ a mixed workforce model since many have discovered that remote labor increases flexibility and lowers overhead. 63% of rapidly expanding companies have already embraced a hybrid business model.

[itsrajivsrivastava]

Seven Models of Cloud Native Applications

Introduction In today’s cloud-driven landscape, organizations are transitioning from legacy monolithic systems to agile, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions. Some are even forging new cloud-native applications. However, the concept of cloud-native design remains subjective, lacking a universal blueprint. This blog aims to provide clarity and guidance for designing precise cloud-native…

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Cloud-native approach aims to build applications based on cloud, leveraging various tools provided by the cloud provider. DevOps automates development and operations synergy, a cornerstone for successful cloud-native adoption. 

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Serverless is a direction, not a destination

Functions are not the point

Managed services are not the point

Ops is not the point

Cost is not the point

Code is not the point

Technology is not the point

The point is focus Serverless is a way to focus on business value.

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(via His Previous Business Is Worth $1 Billion And Now Raised $54 Million To Create A Cloud-Native Database Service)

His previous business is worth $1 Billion and now he has raised $54 million to create Neon, a cloud native database service. Neon’s serverless Postgres allows you to instantly branch your Postgres database to support a modern development workflow. The multi-cloud fully managed Postgres with a generous free tier, separates storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.

Nikita Shamgunov built a $100M revenue company, before joining Khosla Ventures to invest in other startups. Now he is going at it again, with a new tech startup that has raised $54M in just 16 months. The Neon team consists of PostgreSQL contributors and technologists on a mission to create a cloud-native database service for every developer. Neon CEO is Nikita Shamgunov, co-founder of MemSQL / SingleStore.

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Lava plug rock formation 🪨

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Good News - June 8-14

Like these weekly compilations? Tip me at $Kaybarr1735! And if you tip me and give me a way to contact you, at the end of the month I'll send you a link to all of the articles I found but didn't use each week!

1. Rare foal born on estate for first time in 100 years

“The Food Museum at Abbot's Hall in Stowmarket, Suffolk, is home to a small number of Suffolk Punch horses - a breed considered critically endangered by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. A female foal was born on Saturday and has been named Abbots Juno to honour the last horse born at the museum in 1924. [...] Juno is just one of 12 fillies born so far this year in the country and she could potentially help produce more of the breed in the future.”

2. The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery

“[Scientists] at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a way of creating an energy storage device known as a supercapacitor from three basic, cheap materials – water, cement and a soot-like substance called carbon black. [... Supercapacitators] can charge much more quickly than a lithium ion battery and don't suffer from the same levels of degradation in performance. [... Future applications of this concrete might include] roads that store solar energy and then release it to recharge electric cars wirelessly as they drive along a road [... and] energy-storing foundations of houses.”

3. New road lights, fewer dead insects—insect-friendly lighting successfully tested

“Tailored and shielded road lights make the light source almost invisible outside the illuminated area and significantly reduces the lethal attraction for flying insects in different environments. [...] The new LED luminaires deliver more focused light, reduce spill light, and are shielded above and to the side to minimize light pollution. [... In contrast,] dimming the conventional lights by a factor of 5 had no significant effect on insect attraction.”

4. When LGBTQ health is at stake, patient navigators are ready to help

“[S]ome health care systems have begun to offer guides, or navigators, to get people the help they need. [... W]hether they're just looking for a new doctor or taking the first step toward getting gender-affirming care, "a lot of our patients really benefit from having someone like me who is there to make sure that they are getting connected with a person who is immediately going to provide a safe environment for them." [... A navigator] also connects people with LGBTQ community organizations, social groups and peer support groups.”

5. Tech company to help tackle invasive plant species

“Himalayan balsam has very sugary nectar which tempts bees and other pollinators away from native plants, thereby preventing them from producing seed. It outcompetes native plant species for resources such as sunlight, space and nutrients. [...] The volunteer scheme is open to all GWT WilderGlos users who have a smartphone and can download the Crowdorsa app, where they can then earn up to 25p per square meter of Balsam removed.”

6. [Fish & Wildlife] Service Provides Over $14 Million to Benefit Local Communities, Clean Waterways and Recreational Boaters

“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is distributing more than $14 million in Clean Vessel Act grants to improve water quality and increase opportunities for fishing, shellfish harvests and safe swimming in the nation’s waterways. By helping recreational boaters properly dispose of sewage, this year’s grants will improve conditions for local communities, wildlife and recreational boaters in 18 states and Guam.”

7. Bornean clouded leopard family filmed in wild for first time ever

“Camera traps in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo have captured a Bornean clouded leopard mother and her two cubs wandering through a forest. It's the first time a family of these endangered leopards has been caught on camera in the wild, according [to] staff from the Orangutan Foundation who placed camera traps throughout the forest to learn more about the elusive species.”

8. Toy library helps parents save money 'and the planet'

“Started in 2015 by Annie Berry, South Bristol's toy library aims to reduce waste and allow more children access to more - and sometimes expensive - toys. [...] Ms Berry partnered with the St Philips recycling centre on a pilot project to rescue items back from landfill, bringing more toys into the library. [...] [P]eople use it to support the environment, take out toys that they might not have the space for at home or be able to afford, and allow children to pick non-gender specific toys.”

9. Chicago Receives $3M Grant to Inventory Its Trees and Create Plan to Manage City’s Urban Forest

“The Chicago Park District received a $1.48 million grant [“made available through the federal Inflation Reduction Act”] to complete a 100% inventory of its estimated 250,000 trees, develop an urban forestry management plan and plant 200 trees in disadvantaged areas with the highest need. As with the city, development of the management plan is expected to involve significant community input.”

10. Strong Public Support for Indigenous Co-Stewardship Plan for Bears Ears National Monument

“[The NFW has a] plan to collaboratively steward Bears Ears National Monument to safeguard wildlife, protect cultural resources, and better manage outdoor recreation. The plan was the result of a two-year collaboration among the five Tribes of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition and upholds Tribal sovereignty, incorporates Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and responsibly manages the monument for hunting, fishing, and other outdoor recreation while ensuring the continued health of the ecosystem.”

June 1-7 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)