Applying Cloud Architecture Patterns (Day 2)

By the end of this two-day training course, you will understand:

• The business drivers and benefits influencing companies to leverage Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and Cloud Native architectures.
• The unique characteristics of cloud infrastructure and how architectures can exploit these characteristics.
• How to work with an evolving cloud native architectural pattern language called “Bricks and Mortar.”

And you’ll be able to:

• Articulate the high-level narrative of cloud native architecture and why it is important to your business.
• Communicate and facilitate the paradigm shift involved in cloud native architectural thinking for all stakeholders within your organization.
• Understand cloud native architectural patterns, what problems they solve, the pros and cons of various implementation approaches, and the relationships between each, so that you can recommend which pattern will be most effective for your organization.
• Apply cloud native architecture patterns to various practice “katas”, a proven programming exercise, to prepare for future use on real projects.

In this two-day workshop, we’ll gain an understanding of six key architecture qualities:

• Modularity
• Observability
• Deployability
• Testability
• Disposability
• Replaceability

These qualities enhance our ability to apply the cultural and engineering practices of DevOps and Continuous Delivery, as well as to exploit the unique characteristics of cloud infrastructure. This positions us well to eliminate the great conflict between pursuit of business agility and system resiliency, ultimately allowing us to survive a new marketplace where speed is our primary competitive advantage and access to consumer services must be ubiquitous. We’ll learn to create architectures possessing these qualities through applying a rich catalog of cloud native architecture patterns that you should be able to leverage regardless of your choice of cloud provider or technology stack. We’ll enhance our understanding of these topics by alternating between a traditional lecture setting and breaking up into groups to do kata exercises.

You will leave this workshop equipped with an understanding of:

• Unique characteristics of cloud infrastructure
• Architecture concepts unique to cloud native
• Significant tradeoffs involved in cloud architecture
• The concept of continuous partial failure and how it affects architecture
• The importance of composability to cloud architectures
• How continuous delivery, devops, and microservices relate to cloud