The Cloud Native Attitude

The Cloud Native Attitude puts the power of cutting-edge cloud technology right into your hands by exploring what it truly means in practice. Moving beyond the jargon and tech-talk, it offers clear insights into cloud native’s benefits, challenges and real-world applications.

• Understand cloud native: Learn about cloud native technologies, including microservices, containers and orchestration, and how they can enhance scalability and time to market for your business.
• Learn from real-world applications: Discover illuminating case studies from organisations such as the Financial Times and Skyscanner, illustrating practical implementations and lessons learned when adopting cloud native approaches.
• Strategise for success: Gain actionable insights on overcoming the challenges, embracing the opportunities and maximising the potential of cloud native technologies to accelerate innovation and deliver excellence

"An easily digestible source of information on cloud native concepts and why these are more important now than ever before"

- Ronni Laursen, Director, BankData

"This book clearly lays out strong foundations and ideas from those who’ve gone before and found a successful path."

- David Espley, CTO, Kaluza

"I wish this book existed when we started out – it provides an excellent starting point to begin your path to using the cloud to go faster"

- Oli Apostolidis, former Head of Engineering Practice, Cinch

"How to scale adoption and why cloud native is so damn complicated is addressed in this fantastic book.
-  Paul McMahon, Managing Director, Citi

"Cloud native lies at the intersection of all our best ideas of rigour, pace and execution in software delivery. And there’s no better place to start than with The Cloud Native Attitude"

- Greg Hawkins, Senior Advisor and former CTO, Starling Bank

"This book is a jewel!"

-  Marc Cluet, Executive Director in Core Platform Engineering, UBS

About the authors

About Jamie Dobson

Jamie is the co-founder and first chief executive of Container Solutions. A first encounter with a BBC computer and BASIC at the age of nine launched his lifelong passion for programming and software development. Nowadays he focuses on helping executive teams to succeed with the cloud and cloud native, helping them to avoid classic mistakes.

About Anne Currie

Anne is an industry veteran and the author of O’Reilly’s new book on sustainable systems, Building Green Software. She loves to demonstrate that sustainability is completely aligned with the cloud best practices described in this book. She is the CEO of sustainability learning and development company Strategically Green and is a long-time friend and collaborator of Container Solutions.