Developing Cloud-Native Applications for Bluemix (CK102G)

Introduction to cloud-native application development

• Developer roles in Bluemix
• Cloud-native application characteristics
• Course roadmap and positioning

Cloud adoption patterns

• Introduction
• Adoption process
• Application architecture
• DevOps
• Deployment
• Hybrid connectivity

The twelve-factor application

• The twelve factors
• Twelve-factor details

Developing applications for IBM Bluemix

• Introduction to WebSphere Liberty
• Liberty development environment and tooling
• State in cloud applications
• Improving performance in Bluemix with data caching
• Application scaling on IBM Bluemix

Developing applications by using microservices

• Introduction to microservices
• Application architecture evolution
• Microservices component architecture
• Microservices integration
• Refactoring to microservices
• Developing microservices

Data management

• IBM DB2 on Cloud
• PostgreSQL
• Cloudant
• Object storage
• Data transformation

Security

• Terminology
• Java Enterprise security model
• Application security enforced in code
• External authentication
• Bluemix single sign-on