Many companies build their custom software services using monolithic architectures. This approach has advantages: monolithic systems are relatively simple to design and deploy - at least, at first. However it can become hard to maintain developer productivity and deployment velocity as applications grow more complex, leading to systems that are expensive and time-consuming to change and risky to deploy. This paper shows how to re-architect your applications to a cloud-native paradigm that allows you to accelerate delivery of new features even as you grow your teams, while also improving software quality and achieving higher levels of stability and availability. 

As services—and the teams responsible for them—grow, they tend to become more complex and harder to evolve and to operate. Testing and deployment becomes more painful, adding new features becomes harder, and maintaining reliability and availability can be a struggle.