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Part 3 2 chapters

Security & anti-patterns

Security as a first-class layer, and the anti-patterns that undo good architecture.

Chapter 12

Security

Security as four concentric layers — cloud, cluster, container, code — and seven patterns that secure them, from the sidecar that reads trusted identity headers to policy-as-code enforced at admission.

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Chapter 13

Anti-Patterns

Nearly every cloud-native failure is coupling sneaking back in — the recurring anti-patterns that reintroduce it, the five heuristics that catch them in review, and the whole book compressed to five lines.

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Cloud-Native Design Patterns

A chaptered guide to designing cloud-native APIs — patterns, anti-patterns, and runnable examples in Spring Boot, Quarkus, .NET, Python, C++, and Go.

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