Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina

Section 1: The Basics

This first section focuses on the basics of cloud native technology concepts and the basic building blocks of the Ballerina language. This section is necessary to understand the more advanced concepts that we are going to discuss in later sections.

First, we will discuss what cloud native is, the history of cloud-based software architecture, the definition of cloud native, and transforming an organization to using cloud native technologies. Here, we will focus on the theoretical aspects of building a cloud native system.

Next, we will discuss the architecture of the Ballerina language, setting up a development environment, fundamental Ballerina syntaxes, the Ballerina type system, error handling, and controlling the program ...