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Cloud Native Programming with Golang
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Cloud Native Programming with Golang

by Mina Andrawos, Martin Helmich
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
9h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Basic design goals

In order to fully benefit from the advantages of modern cloud platforms, we need to consider their characteristic properties when developing applications that should run on these platforms.

One of the main design goals of cloud applications is scalability. On the one hand, this means growing your application's resources as needed in order to efficiently serve all your users. On the other hand, it also means shrinking your resources back to an appropriate level when you do not need them anymore. This allows you to run your application in a cost-efficient manner without having to constantly overprovision for peak workloads.

In order to achieve this, typical cloud deployments often use small virtual machine instances that ...

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