Preface

When Dan and I set out to write this book, we didn’t want it to be a reference book or “yet another syntax book.” Instead, we wanted to put to good use our experience building cloud native solutions for Pivotal customers and nearly a lifetime of combined experience building software for companies of just about every size, shape, and industry.

This book starts off with a philosophical chapter, The Way of the Cloud, because we firmly believe that the secret to building good software has more to do with the mindset and discipline of the developers than it does the tooling or language.

From there, we follow The Way of the Cloud in everything we do as we gradually, in a test-driven and highly automated fashion, take you through a series of ...

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