Cloud Without Compromise

Intro

Copyright

Table of Contents

Preface: Who This Book Is For

Conventions Used in This Book

O'Reilly Online Learning

How to Contact Us

Our Collective Thank Yous and Acknowledgments

Our Personal Dedications and Reflections

Paul Zikopoulos

Christopher Bienko

Chris Backer

Chris Konarski

Sai Vennam

Introduction

Chapter 1. Cloudy Skies Are the Best Forecast Ever

Thrivers, Divers, and New Arrivers

Business Vaccination: The Arriver's Guide

Cost Takeout

Resiliency

Performance

Security

Modernization

AI

So Why Are Cloudy Skies the Best Forecast Ever?

Chapter 2. Evolution of Cloud

Are You on the Intranet, Internet, or Extranet? Nah-Just Internet

Are You on a Private Cloud, Public Cloud, or Community Cloud? Nah-Just Cloud

History Repeats Itself: From Granularity of Terms to General Terms

Hybrid Cloud's "Chapter 2": Distributed Cloud

Distributed Cloud On-Premises

Living on the Edge: Distributed Cloud

Distributed Cloud for Multicloud

A Caveat to Distributed Cloud

Distributed Cloud: The Ultimate Unification Layer

Industry Expertise in Mission-Critical Business Processes

Proven Security, Compliance, and Governance

Confidential Computing and Zero Trust Architectures

Build Once and Run Anywhere with Consistency

Capture the World's Innovation

Cloud Solely for Savings Could Leave You with Cravings: A Trend of Repatriation

Be Ye a Renovator, Innovator, or Both? How You Spend Budget

Adopting a "Learning Never Ends" Culture: A Cloud Success Secret Ingredient

Ready, Set, Cloud!

Chapter 3. "Cloud Chapter 2": The Path to Cloud Native

Eras of Application Development

In the Beginning: Monoliths and Waterfalls

SOA Is the SOS to Your Monolith

Microservices: What SOA Would Be If It Was Version 2.0

First "Pass" on PaaS

Lessons Learned: The Rise of Containers

But Wait, Don't VMs Do the Same Thing!?

Docker Brings Containers to the Masses

A Practical Understanding of Kubernetes

Starting the Kubernetes Journey

Time to Start Building

Chapter 4. Cloud Computing: Patterns for The What, The How, and The Why

Patterns of Cloud Computing: A Working Framework for Discussion

Order Up: Pizza as a Service

Do (Almost All of) It Yourself: Infrastructure as a Service

IaaS has a Twin Sibling: Bare Metal

Noisy Neighbors Can Be Bad Neighbors: The Multitenant Cloud

Cloud Regions and Cloud Availability Zones for Any As-a-Service Offering

Building the Developer's Sandbox with Platform as a Service

Digging Deeper into PaaS

Composing in the Fabric of Cloud Services

Consuming Functionality Without the Stress: Software as a Service

The Cloud Bazaar: SaaS and the API Economy

All You Need Is a Little Bit of REST and Some Microservices