Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

Cloud native database

Managing a traditional database in the cloud is hard and risky. As we will discuss, it is necessary to replicate the data across availability zones to ensure the data is accessible and durable, and replicate it across regions to protect against regional outages. Managing a modern sharded database in the cloud is super hard and risky. We have all the complexity of managing the traditional database across availability zones and regions multiplied by the number of shards. Managing N modern, sharded databases in the cloud, to gain the advantages of Polyglot Persistence and bulkheads between components, is arguably an exercise in insanity, even for many unicorn companies. Imagine this oversimplified example: you have five ...