Cloud Native Patterns

Part 2. Cloud-native patterns

This is where the patterns are. Now, if you’re expecting a Gang of Four style of patterns, I’m afraid you might be disappointed, though I hope not. The Design Patterns book by Erich Gamma, John Vlissides, Ralph Johnson, and Richard Helm is fantastic and is arguably the book most responsible for raising awareness of reusable patterns in a whole era of software developers. But instead of taking that reference-book-like approach, my coverage of patterns is all in the context of the problems they’re designed to solve.

Virtually every chapter begins with a discussion of certain challenges, sometimes talking about design approaches that predate the cloud era, and then derives solutions—and those solutions are the patterns. ...