Practical Spring Cloud Function: Developing Cloud-Native Functions for Multi-Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud Environments

Practical Spring Cloud Function is a book that targets both programming and business communities, providing a guide for designing and optimizing information pipelines while lowering costs for infrastructure. It covers themes such as portability, scalability, high performance, and high availability, with real enterprise use cases and code. It is for software and cloud-native application developers with prior programming experience in the cloud and/or Spring Framework, as well as DevOps professionals.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 346 pages
Publication date: 25 December 2022
Publisher: APress

This comprehensive book caters to a diverse audience, encompassing both programming and business communities. As programming models increasingly embrace no-code and low-code approaches, citizen programmers from the business side will find this book invaluable as a guide for designing and optimizing their information pipelines, while simultaneously reducing infrastructure costs. On the other hand, programmers will appreciate the business-centric programming perspective offered in this book, which will help them bridge the gap and meet real business requirements effectively.

Practical Spring Cloud Function delves into essential themes such as portability, scalability, high performance, and high availability. Each theme is explored through real-world enterprise use cases, accompanied by comprehensive code examples. These use cases span industries like energy (oil pipeline sensors), automotive (event-driven connected vehicles), and retail (conversational AI). By the end of this book, readers will possess the skills to build and deploy cloud-native Java applications with efficiency and effectiveness.

What You Will Learn:

Write functions and deploy to popular cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and on-prem clouds such as VMWare Tanzu and RedHat OpenShift.

Set up locally with KNative on Kubernetes, as well as on AWS, Azure, GCP, Tanzu, and other cloud providers.

Build, test, and deploy a simple example with Spring Cloud Function.

Develop an event-driven data pipeline using Spring Cloud Function.

Integrate with AI and machine learning models.

Apply Spring Cloud Function to the Internet of Things (IoT).

Get industry-specific examples of Spring Cloud Function in action.

Who This Book Is For:

Software and cloud-native application developers with prior programming experience in the cloud and/or the Spring Framework. DevOps professionals may also find this book beneficial, as it offers insights into integrating Spring Cloud Function into their cloud infrastructure and workflows.

Weight: 557g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781484289129
Edition number: 1st ed.