Summary

This chapter started with a short overview of the technical success factors when delivering applications.

We learned that collaboration, the right service model, and thinking about the current processes can make us successful. Furthermore, we looked at possible metrics and found that we could measure the effectiveness of our safety nets. After that, we took a closer look at the differences between monoliths and microservices and also discussed how cloud-native infrastructures and platforms differ from traditional infrastructure. Finally, we looked at larger-scale deployments and learned how multi-stage, multi-cluster, and multi-cloud deployments can be used to give us more confidence in our deployment strategy.

In the next chapter, we’ll focus a bit more on the technology and tooling side of the story and will find out how this can support our strategy.