Practice Exercises

1.

Explain how a web-based cloud-native application works as opposed to a traditional web application.

2.

Give a practical example of a solution implementation that illustrates the differences between SOA and microservices.

3.

Explain how CI/CD works in combination with other DevOps tools to support the development of cloud-native applications.

4.

Explain how CaaS deployment works.

5.

Give a practical example of a solution deployment that illustrates the differences between PaaS and FaaS/serverless.

6.

Explain how CI/CD works in combination with other DevOps tools to support the deployment of cloud-native applications using either Containers/CaaS, PaaS, or FaaS.

7.

FaaS/serverless is considered to be a deployment technology; however, because it appears that code needs to be written in a different way to specify services as functions, why is FaaS/serverless not considered as a separate architectural style?

8.

Follow the AWS tutorial to build a serverless application in AWS.

9.

Follow the Google Cloud tutorial to build serverless function in Google Cloud.

10.

Follow the Google Cloud tutorial to build a containerized application that receives events using a messaging service.