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?
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
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
I. Meet Our WealthGrid Team
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
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
II. First Attempt at Transformation–Cloud Native “Side Project”
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
III. Second Attempt at Cloud Native
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
7. Patterns for Strategy and Risk Reduction
Meet Steve
Strategize, Then Delegate
Pattern: Dynamic Strategy
Pattern: Value Hierarchy
Pattern: Business Case
Pattern: Executive Commitment
From Theory to Execution
Pattern: Transformation Champion
Pattern: Vision First
Pattern: Objective Setting
Pattern: Involve the Business
Pattern: Periodic Checkups
Pattern: Data-Driven Decision Making
Pattern: Learning Loop
Pattern: Learning Organization
Pattern: Measure What Matters
Pattern: Research Through Action
Practical Patterns for Managing Any Kind of Risk
Pattern: Gradually Raising the Stakes
Pattern: No Regret Moves
Pattern: Options and Hedges
Pattern: Big Bet
Pattern: Reduce Cost of Experimentation
Pattern: Exit Strategy Over Vendor Lock-in
Maintaining Strategic Momentum
Pattern: Three Horizons
Pattern: Reflective Breaks
Pattern: Designated Strategist
Ready for Next
8. Patterns for Organization and Culture
Pattern: Core Team
Pattern: Build-Run Teams (“Cloud Native DevOps”)
Pattern: Platform Team
Pattern: SRE Team
Pattern: Remote Teams
Pattern: Co-Located Teams
Pattern: Communicate Through Tribes
Pattern: Manage for Creativity
Pattern: Manage for Proficiency
Pattern: Strangle Monolithic Organizations
Pattern: Gradual Onboarding
Pattern: Design Thinking for Radical Innovation
Pattern: Agile for New Development (Innovation Breaks)
Pattern: Lean for Optimization
Pattern: Internal Evangelism
Pattern: Ongoing Education
Pattern: Exploratory Experiments
Pattern: Proof of Concept (PoC)
Pattern: MVP Platform
Pattern: Decide Closest to the Action
Pattern: Productive Feedback
Pattern: Psychological Safety
Pattern: Personalized Relationships for Co-Creation
Pattern: Blameless Inquiry
Summary
9. Patterns for Development and Process
Pattern: Open Source Internal Projects
Pattern: Distributed Systems
Pattern: Automated Testing
Pattern: Continuous Integration
Pattern: Reproducible Dev Environments
Pattern: No Long Tests in CI/CD
Pattern: Microservices Architecture
Pattern: Communicate Through APIs
Pattern: Reference Architecture
Pattern: Architecture Drawing
Pattern: Developer Starter Pack
Pattern: Demo Applications
Pattern: Secure System from the Start
Pattern: Strangle Monolithic Application
Pattern: Delayed Automation
Pattern: Avoid Reinventing the Wheel
Pattern: A/B Testing
Pattern: Serverless
Summary
10. Patterns for Infrastructure and Cloud
Pattern: Private Cloud
Pattern: Public Cloud
Pattern: Automated Infrastructure
Pattern: Self-Service
Pattern: Dynamic Scheduling
Pattern: Containerized Apps
Pattern: Observability
Pattern: Continuous Delivery
Pattern: Continuous Deployment
Pattern: Full Production Readiness
Pattern: Risk-Reducing Deployment Strategies
Pattern: Lift and Shift at the End
Summary
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
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?
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
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
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
A. Library of Patterns (Thumbnail Reference Versions)
Index
