Cloud Application Architecture Patterns

Chapter 3. Cloud-Native Application

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While the fundamental architecture for an application is the same for both traditional IT and the cloud, the architecture selected must then be refined further to optimize the application for the cloud. We’ve discussed how cloud computing enables you to run your applications on someone else’s computer, how it incorporates practices that are different from traditional IT, and how those practices impact the way that applications work. With that in mind, let’s look at how to architect an application to incorporate these cloud computing practices. To make an application run well on the cloud, architect and design it as a cloud-native application.

Introduction to Cloud-Native Application

We need to distinguish between these two separate but closely related topics:

• cloud computing — How the cloud makes its IT infrastructure available

• cloud native — How to architect and design an application to work well with cloud

These two topics are two different sides ...