Chapter 6
A Closer Look at Cloud Services
IN THIS CHAPTER
Moving from monolithic to modular
Defining and understanding microservices
Making sense of containers
Realizing the critical need for cloud native services
Discovering why APIs are growing in importance
One of the most important benefits businesses gain from cloud computing is the ability to modularize application services so that they can be linked together to create a cohesive environment. The new generation of agile application development and deployment means software services can be developed and deployed virtually anywhere.
In this chapter, we discuss what it means to transform your computing environment into independent services that are supported by containers and container orchestration. The techniques needed to create these new services are defined in a new generation of software development and deployment — Platform as a Service (PaaS). (For more details on PaaS, refer to Chapter 10.) The combination of microservices, ...
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