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

Unlike other resources that target only programming communities, this book targets both programming and business communities. With programming models shifting more towards no-code and low-code, citizen programmers from the business side will welcome this book as a guide for how to design and optimize their information pipeline while lowering costs for infrastructure. Programmers, on the other hand, will welcome this book's business-centric programming view, which will get them a step closer to fulfilling real business requirements.

Practical Spring Cloud Function touches on the themes of portability, scalability, high performance and high availability. Each theme is explored via a real enterprise use case and code. The use cases target industries including energy (oil pipeline sensors), automotive (event-driven connected vehicles), and retail (conversational AI).

After reading this book, you'll come away with the know-how to build and deploy cloud-native Java applications effectively and efficiently. ​

What You Will Learn

• Write functions and deploy to 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 others
• Build, test, and deploy a simple example with Spring Cloud Function
• Develop an event-driven data pipeline with 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 Spring Framework. DevOps professionals may find this book beneficial as well.

About the Author

Banu Parasuraman is a Cloud Native Technologist with over 30 years of experience in the IT industry. He provides an advisory role to clients who are looking to move to cloud or implement cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry and the like. He has engaged over 25 select companies spread across different sectors (Retail, Healthcare, Logistics, Banking, Manufacturing, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Media & Entertainment ...) in USA, Europe and Asia have interacted at every level of an organization. Banu is a key evangelist for Cloud-Native computing encouraging client and architects to undertake this journey as soon as possible to avoid organizational inertia later. He is experienced in most of the popular cloud platforms such as VMWare-VCF, Pivotal-PCF, IBM-OCP, Google-GCP, Amazon-AWS, Microsoft-Azure. Banu has taken part in external speaking engagements targeted at CXOs and Engineers: VMworld, SpringOne, Spring Days, Spring Developer Forum Meetups. Internal speaking engagements: Developer Workshops on Cloud Native Architecture and Development, Customer Workshops on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, enabling Cloud Native sales plays and strategies for sales and teams. Lastly, Banu has numerous blogs on platforms such a Medium and Linkedin to promote adoption of Cloud Native architecture and development.