17、Cloud Native Application Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide

Cloud Native Application Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide

1. Designing Stateless Services for Scalability

Services should be designed to scale out, which involves adding more instances of a service to increase its scale. Scaling up, on the other hand, means adding more resources like memory or cores, but it usually has a hard limit. By designing a service to scale out and back in, you can handle load variations without affecting service availability.

Stateful applications are difficult to scale and should be avoided. If stateful services are necessary, separate the functionality from the application and use partitioning strategies and managed services if available.

Steps to Design Stateless Services :
1. Identify