Summary

In this chapter, I tried to give you more concrete examples of trendy architecture styles, because I already introduced the theoretical part in the previous chapter. The purpose of the two examples provided in this chapter was to demonstrate how quickly you can get started with cloud and cloud-native applications. Both examples relied on Infrastructure as Code. The remaining manual steps were there to keep things simple but rest assured that this can be fully automated in the real world.  

Both examples showed that the ecosystem plays an important role when building new solutions. For the serverless application, we relied on Azure Functions and Azure Event Grid, and we leveraged K8s's built-in scaling capabilities to load test our function handler. In the microservices example, we used Dapr, yet another great framework that comes from the K8s ecosystem. Both demos were intended to highlight the importance of this ecosystem, which you should never neglect as...