Nane Kratzke

The course Cloud-native Architectures is given for Master Computer Science students at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences. It focuses mainly on cloud-native system design and corresponding architecture design patterns and methodologies for cloud-native applications.

This course continues the course Cloud-native Programming that provided the necessary “Everything-as-Code” programming capabilities to understand and create the design modern of cloud-native applications.

The course covers the following aspects and addresses each aspect from a practical development/programming point of view:

• Microservice Architectures
  • Modeling loosely coupled architectures
  • Integration patterns
  • Scaling service-based architectures
  • 7 principles of microservice design
• Serverless Architectures
  • Serverless definition
  • Strength and limitations of serverless architectures
  • Use cases for serverless architectures
• Observable Architectures
  • Service meshes
  • Traffic management, security, observability, and resiliency features of service meshes
  • Inside Istio (Service mesh type representative)
  • Observability through monitoring (metrics, logs, tracing)
• Designing CNA
  • Principles of Domain-Driven Design
  • Strategic design (Subdomains, Ubiquitous Language, Bounded Context, and Context Mapping)
  • Tactical design (Patterns for business logic, architectural patterns)

Closing remark: Due to the COVID19 pandemic, I will give this course in an online format composed of online lectures and online practical courses.