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Container Solutions
Copyright
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
About This Book
Latest Pattern Developments
Conventions Used in This Book
O’Reilly Online Learning
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Evolve or Else
Welcome to WealthGrid!
A Stranger Comes to Town
Stranger Danger
Cereal Killer
You Say You Want an Evolution
Which Evolutionary Stage Are You In?
Chapter 1. What Is Cloud Native?
Cloud Native Is Not “The Cloud”
A Cloud Native Primer
How Do I Know Cloud Native When I See It?
It’s All About Services
Fitting Everything Together
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
(Distributed) Systems Shock
Shocking Immaturity
The Executive Summary
Chapter 2. The Human Challenge of Cloud Native
Culture Vulture
A (Brief) Field Guide to Organizational Culture
“Right” Solutions, “Wrong” Culture
The Culture Clash Conundrum
Which Brings Us Back to…Culture
Interlude I. Meet Our WealthGrid Team
Pressure from Both Sides
Chapter 3. What’s the Pattern? Architecture, Pattern Languages, and Design
Patterns
A Time for Design
A Cloud Native Pattern Language
Patterns in Context
Cloud Native Context in the Real World
Common Contexts
Patterns, Pattern Languages, and Designs
How Patterns Work
What Makes a Pattern?
How (Iba) Patterns Are Made
Presentation
Our Approach
Chapter 4. Beyond Patterns: Behavior, Biases, and Managing Evolution
Conway’s Law
Cognitive Biases
Why Biases Are Useful
Biases, Patterns, and Behavior
Nudges
Common Biases and Nudges
What to Watch For, and How to Overcome
Interlude II. First Attempt at Transformation–Cloud Native “Side Project”
How Hard Can This Be?
A Year Later, with Little to Show for It
Chapter 5. Knowing Thyself: The Cloud Native Maturity Matrix Tool
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall…
For Mature Audiences Only: The Maturity Matrix
Staying in Sync
Applying the Matrix
Culture
Product/Service Design
Team
Process
Architecture
Maintenance
Delivery
Provisioning
Infrastructure
Connecting the Dots
The Axes, United
Interlude III. Second Attempt at Cloud Native
Embracing Innovation
Experimentation Time
Back to the Drawing Board
Third Time’s the Charm?
What else is there?!
Chapter 6. Tools for Understanding and Using Cloud Native Patterns
So Many (Deceptively Simple) Tools
Tools to Take You the Rest of the Way
Proficiency Versus Creativity
Want Fries with That?
Creativity, Proficiency, and Enterprise
Three Horizons
We Are the Champions?
So What the Heck Happened at WealthGrid?
Summary
Chapter 7. Patterns for Strategy and Risk Reduction
Meet Steve
Strategize, Then Delegate
Pattern: Dynamic Strategy
In This Context
Therefore
Consequently
Common Pitfalls
Related Biases
Related Patterns
Pattern: Value Hierarchy
In This Context
Therefore
Consequently
Related Patterns
Pattern: Business Case
In This Context
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Pattern: Executive Commitment
In This Context
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From Theory to Execution
Pattern: Transformation Champion
In This Context
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Pattern: Vision First
In This Context
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Pattern: Objective Setting
In This Context
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Pattern: Involve the Business
In This Context
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Pattern: Periodic Checkups
In This Context
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Pattern: Data-Driven Decision Making
In This Context
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Pattern: Learning Loop
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Pattern: Learning Organization
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Pattern: Measure What Matters
In This Context
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Pattern: Research Through Action
In This Context
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Practical Patterns for Managing Any Kind of Risk
Pattern: Gradually Raising the Stakes
In This Context
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Pattern: No Regret Moves
In This Context
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Pattern: Options and Hedges
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Pattern: Big Bet
In This Context
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Pattern: Reduce Cost of Experimentation
In This Context
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Pattern: Exit Strategy Over Vendor Lock-in
In This Context
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Maintaining Strategic Momentum
Pattern: Three Horizons
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Pattern: Reflective Breaks
In This Context
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Pattern: Designated Strategist
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Ready for Next
Chapter 8. Patterns for Organization and Culture
Pattern: Core Team
In This Context
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Pattern: Build-Run Teams (“Cloud Native DevOps”)
In This Context
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Pattern: Platform Team
In This Context
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Pattern: SRE Team
In This Context
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Pattern: Remote Teams
In This Context
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Pattern: Co-Located Teams
In This Context
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Pattern: Communicate Through Tribes
In This Context
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Pattern: Manage for Creativity
In This Context
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Pattern: Manage for Proficiency
In This Context
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Pattern: Strangle Monolithic Organizations
In This Context
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Pattern: Gradual Onboarding
In This Context
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Pattern: Design Thinking for Radical Innovation
In This Context
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Pattern: Agile for New Development (Innovation Breaks)
In This Context
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Pattern: Lean for Optimization
In This Context
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Pattern: Internal Evangelism
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Pattern: Ongoing Education
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Pattern: Exploratory Experiments
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Pattern: Proof of Concept (PoC)
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Pattern: MVP Platform
In This Context
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Pattern: Decide Closest to the Action
In This Context
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Pattern: Productive Feedback
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Pattern: Psychological Safety
In This Context
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Pattern: Personalized Relationships for Co-Creation
In This Context
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Pattern: Blameless Inquiry
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Summary
Chapter 9. Patterns for Development and Process
Pattern: Open Source Internal Projects
In This Context
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Pattern: Distributed Systems
In This Context
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Pattern: Automated Testing
In This Context
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Pattern: Continuous Integration
In This Context
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Pattern: Reproducible Dev Environments
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Pattern: No Long Tests in CI/CD
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Pattern: Microservices Architecture
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Pattern: Communicate Through APIs
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Pattern: Reference Architecture
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Pattern: Architecture Drawing
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Pattern: Developer Starter Pack
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Pattern: Demo Applications
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Pattern: Secure System from the Start
In This Context
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Pattern: Strangle Monolithic Application
In This Context
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Pattern: Delayed Automation
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Pattern: Avoid Reinventing the Wheel
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Pattern: A/B Testing
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Pattern: Serverless
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Summary
Chapter 10. Patterns for Infrastructure and Cloud
Pattern: Private Cloud
In This Context
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Pattern: Public Cloud
In This Context
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Pattern: Automated Infrastructure
In This Context
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Pattern: Self-Service
In This Context
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Pattern: Dynamic Scheduling
In This Context
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Pattern: Containerized Apps
In This Context
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Pattern: Observability
In This Context
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Pattern: Continuous Delivery
In This Context
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Pattern: Continuous Deployment
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Pattern: Full Production Readiness
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Pattern: Risk-Reducing Deployment Strategies
In This Context
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Pattern: Lift and Shift at the End
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Summary
Chapter 11. Applying the Patterns: A Transformation Design Story, Part 1
PHASE 1: THINK
Enter the Champion
Ready to Commit
Vision and Core Team
Delegating Power
PHASE 2: DESIGN
Distributed Systems and Friends
Exploratory Experiments
Proof of Concept
Chapter 12. Applying the Patterns: A Cloud Native Transformation Design, Part 2
PHASE 3: BUILD
Prepare for Onboarding
Onboarding the Right Way, at the Right Time
PHASE 4: RUN
Strangle All the Old Things
Keeping Creativity Alive
The End?
Chapter 13. Common Transformation Challenges
Too-Early “Lift & Shift” Move
Treating Cloud Native as Simply an Extension of Agile
“Spiking” Cloud Native Transformation via Unbalanced Approach
New System, Old Structure
Wrong Order of Implementation
Platform Not Ready for Production; Going to Production Anyway
The Greenfield Myth, or, the “All or Nothing” Approach
Lack of Platform Team
Lack of Education and Onboarding Plan
Summary
Chapter 14. Building a Bank in a Year: Starling Bank Case Study
Acing the Architecture
Building the Apps
No IT Department
You Build It, You Run It
Continuous Delivery
Cloud Everything
Resilient Architecture
And, Really, That’s It
Chapter 15. Welcome to the Jungle: Adidas Cloud Native Transformation Case Study
Welcome to the Jungle
A Playground for Kubernetes
Day 2
Day 2 Afternoon in Cloud City
Epilogue
What’s Next?
Jedi Powers Unlocked
Appendix A. Library of Patterns (Thumbnail Reference Versions)
Index
About the Authors
Colophon