Cloud Development: Best Practices & Resources
Cloud development continues to transform how we build, deploy, and scale applications. Whether you're building on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, mastering cloud-native patterns is essential for modern software engineering.
Key Topics
- Serverless architectures and Functions-as-a-Service
- Containerization with Docker & Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – ARM, Bicep, Terraform
- Secure DevOps pipelines (CI/CD)
- Observability: metrics, logs, tracing
- Cost optimization and governance
Getting Started
Follow these steps to start your cloud development journey:
# Install Azure CLI
curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash
# Authenticate
az login
# Create a resource group
az group create --name myResourceGroup --location eastus
# Deploy a basic web app
az webapp up --name myWebApp123 --resource-group myResourceGroup --runtime "DOTNET|6.0"