Cloud native is a concept that’s been around for a number of years. Initially, companies developed and promoted their own technologies and perspectives on software development; however, in recent years, the industry and technologies have matured, and this has led to greater collaboration around open source and open standards. We believe a user’s interests are best served by adopting technologies that are based on open standards and open source, all produced by communities founded on open governance. It’s taken us a few years to get here, but it’s now possible and easy to build high-quality cloud native Java applications using technologies that fit these criteria. In this book, we’ll show you how.