In-Person Training
Applying cloud architecture patterns

As a software architect, confronting the cloud can feel quite daunting. From the start, you face an onslaught of decisions. Which public cloud provider should you choose? Are you even ready for public cloud, or do you need to focus on private cloud? And what does that even mean? Maybe you’re looking for a hybrid solution.

These questions are only the beginning. Soon you’ll be looking at IaaS versus PaaS, containers versus unikernels, servers versus serverless—the list goes on. Is there any way to make sense of all of the choices and cut through all of the hype?

Fortunately there is a way forward. There are clear architectural concepts and patterns that you can use as guideposts on your journey to the cloud. Matt Stine helps you understand six key architecture qualities: modularity, observability, deployability, testablity, disposability, and replaceability. These qualities enhance your ability to apply the cultural and engineering practices of DevOps and continuous delivery and exploit the unique characteristics of cloud infrastructure, helping you eliminate the great conflict between pursuit of business agility and system resiliency and ultimately enabling your survival in a new marketplace where speed is the primary competitive advantage and access to consumer services must be ubiquitous.

Through lecture and hands-on kata exercises, you’ll learn to create cloud-native architectures by applying a rich catalog of patterns that you will be able to leverage regardless of your choice of cloud provider or technology stack.

Outline

Day 1

Introduction (15 minutes)

Cloud-native architecture fundamentals (60 minutes)

• Business drivers for cloud-native architecture
• High-level overview of DevOps and continuous delivery
• Characteristics of cloud infrastructure

Socratic Q&A session (15 minutes)

Morning break (30 minutes)

Cloud-native architecture fundamentals: Part 2 (60 minutes)

• Six key architectural qualities of cloud-native architecture

Introduction to the Brick and Mortar pattern language (30 minutes)

Lunch (60 minutes)

Review and Socratic Q&A session (30 minutes)

Brick patterns: Part 1 (60 minutes)

• Externalized configuration
• Externalized state
• Externalized channels

Afternoon break (30 minutes)

Brick patterns: Part 2 (60 minutes)

• Runtime reconfiguration
• Concurrent execution
• Brick telemetry

Review and Socratic Q&A session (30 minutes)

Day 2

Applying Brick patterns through kata exercises (90 minutes)

• Form working groups
• Pick an architectural problem
• Design a cloud-native Brick
• Present for peer review

Morning break (30 minutes)

Mortar patterns: Part 1 (60 minutes)

• Service discovery
• Edge gateway
• Fault tolerance

Socratic Q&A session (30 minutes)

Lunch (60 minutes)

Mortar patterns: Part 2 (60 minutes)

• Event-driven systems
• Contract management
• Integration telemetry

Socratic Q&A session (30 minutes)

Afternoon break (30 minutes)

Applying Mortar patterns through kata exercises (90 minutes)

• Form working groups
• Pick an architectural problem
• Compose a cloud-native system
• Present for peer review

Wrap-up and Q&A