7 Platform capabilities I: Shared application concerns

This chapter covers

  • Learning requirements of 95% of cloud-native applications
  • Reducing friction between application and infrastructure
  • Addressing shared concerns with standard APIs and components

In chapter 5 we created abstractions such as databases and message brokers to provision and configure all the components required by our application’s services. In chapter 6, we extended these mechanisms to build our platform walking skeleton.This platform enables teams to request new development environments that not only create isolated environments but also install an instance of the Conference application (and all the components required by the application) so teams can do their work. By going ...

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