Cloud-Native Applications in Java by Munish Kumar Gupta

Highly available microservice-based web apps for Cloud with Java

Key Features

• Take advantage of the simplicity of Spring to build a full-fledged application
• Let your applications run faster while generating smaller cloud service bills
• Integrate your application with various tools such as Docker and ElasticSearch and use specific tools in Azure and AWS

Book Description

Businesses today are evolving so rapidly that they are resorting to the elasticity of the cloud to provide a platform to build and deploy their highly scalable applications. This means developers now are faced with the challenge of building build applications that are native to the cloud. For this, they need to be aware of the environment, tools, and resources they’re coding against.

If you’re a Java developer who wants to build secure, resilient, robust, and scalable applications that are targeted for cloud-based deployment, this is the book for you. It will be your one stop guide to building cloud-native applications in Java Spring that are hosted in On-prem or cloud providers - AWS and Azure

The book begins by explaining the driving factors for cloud adoption and shows you how cloud deployment is different from regular application deployment on a standard data centre. You will learn about design patterns specific to applications running in the cloud and find out how you can build a microservice in Java Spring using REST APIs

You will then take a deep dive into the lifecycle of building, testing, and deploying applications with maximum automation to reduce the deployment cycle time. Gradually, you will move on to configuring the AWS and Azure platforms and working with their APIs to deploy your application. Finally, you’ll take a look at API design concerns and their best practices. You’ll also learn how to migrate an existing monolithic application into distributed cloud native applications.

By the end, you will understand how to build and monitor a scalable, resilient, and robust cloud native application that is always available and fault tolerant.

What you will learn

• See the benefits of the cloud environment when it comes to variability, provisioning, and tooling support
• Understand the architecture patterns and considerations when developing on the cloud
• Find out how to perform cloud-native techniques/patterns for request routing, RESTful service creation, Event Sourcing, and more
• Create Docker containers for microservices and set up continuous integration using Jenkins
• Monitor and troubleshoot an application deployed in the cloud environment
• Explore tools such as Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and the ELK stack for log aggregation and visualization
• Use AWS and Azure specific tools to design, develop, deploy, and manage applications
• Migrate from monolithic architectures to a cloud native deployment

Who this book is for

Java developers who want to build secure, resilient, robust and scalable applications that are targeted for cloud based deployment, will find this book helpful. Some knowledge of Java, Spring, web programming and public cloud providers (AWS, Azure) should be sufficient to get you through the book.

Ajay Mahajan is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) at Wipro Technologies, and currently is in role of Chief Technologist of Retail vertical. In his current role, he helps customers adopt cloud-native and digital architecture for next-generation retail applications. He worked with retail and banking clients in Europe and USA on large-scale mission-critical systems. He has seen the evolution of enterprise Java from the Netscape Application Server to servlets/JSP, JEE, Spring, and now the cloud and microservices during the course of 19 years of working on Java platform. Munish Kumar Gupta is a lead system architect with Visa. Based in Bangalore, India, his day-to-day work involves solution architectures for applications with stringent non-functional requirements, application performance engineering, managing application infrastructure, and exploring the readiness of cutting-edge, open source technologies for enterprise adoption. He is the author of Akka Essentials. He is very passionate about software programming and craftsmanship. He blogs about technology trends, application performance engineering, and Akka. Shyam Sundar is a senior architect with Wipro Technologies based in Bangalore. He is part of the Emerging Technologies Architecture group within Wipro. He is responsible for helping teams adopt new and emerging technologies in their projects. He focuses primarily on the client side and cloud technologies. He is a lifelong learner who cares deeply about software craftsmanship. He is constantly experimenting with new tools and technologies to improve the development experience.