Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

Establishing the context

We could dive right into a definition. But if you ask a handful of software engineers to define cloud-native, you will most likely get more than a handful of definitions. Is there no unified definition? Is it not mature enough for a concrete definition? Or maybe everyone has their own perspective, their own context. When we talk about a particular topic without consensus on the context then it is unlikely we will reach consensus on the topic. So first we need to define the context for our definition of cloud-native. It should come as no surprise that in a patterns book, we will start by defining the context.

What is the right context for our definition of cloud-native? Well, of course, the right context is your context. ...