Designing for the Cloud Era
Cloud-native architecture focuses on modular, scalable services that fully exploit cloud capabilities, improving speed, resilience, and developer productivity.
“Cloud-native is not just technology — it’s a mindset of resilience, scalability, and rapid iteration.”
— Viswa
— Viswa
- Microservices: Break applications into independently deployable services for better scalability and fault isolation.
- Containers: Package services with dependencies for consistency across environments.
- Serverless Functions: Event-driven, scalable, and managed by the cloud provider to reduce operational overhead.
- CI/CD Integration: Rapid, automated deployments to accelerate innovation.
- Observability: Built-in metrics, logging, and tracing for performance and reliability.
- Resilience Patterns: Implement retries, circuit breakers, and fallback strategies.
“Design for failure, scale automatically, and evolve rapidly — that’s cloud-native.”
— Viswa
— Viswa