Abstract: The value of micro services, containers, and continuous deployment is powerful only when brought together in a logical, scalable and platform agnostic manner.

Moreover, when used in the wrong way, it is fairly easy to shoot your self (and your entire application) in the foot. For eg: Micro services can be used to either create unnecessary pockets of redundancy, or used to isolate functionality and directly be an ally of efficient continuous deployment. I have seen more incorrect usages of containers and micro services than I’d like to admit, and a few key components are frequently left out of the cloud-native architecture while starting down this path.

Using the micro service paradigm is not a panacea for all problems, because one is creating a large-scale distributed cluster, in essence. Another aspect that is frequently neglected is large-scale containerized search in a cloud-native environment, a governance model around micro services and cloud orchestration. For instance, API frameworks like swagger.io enhance the usability of micro services by documenting the API functionality in real-time alongside the API contract. A micro service is only as useful as the interface contract that it has with other services in the application eco system.

Based on my experience over multiple cloud deployments, I will share a collection of anti-patterns and best practices to build production-ready cloud-native applications.

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Speaker: Mallika Iyer, Pivotal

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