Competencies: Cloud > Cloud-Native Patterns

DNS-as-a-Service

Managed DNS services including authoritative DNS hosting, DNS propagation mechanics, CNAME flattening, proxy modes, and multi-provider DNS strategies for high availability.

Medium

Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer

Twelve-Factor App

Cloud-native application methodology: codebase, dependencies, config, backing services, build/run, processes, port binding, concurrency, disposability, dev/prod parity, logs, admin processes

Critical

Cloud Architect, Backend Developer, DevOps Engineer

Container-Native Design

Stateless services, health probes, graceful shutdown, resource limits, sidecar patterns

Critical

DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Backend Developer

Service Discovery

DNS-based discovery, service registries, health checking, load balancer integration

High

Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, SRE

Configuration Management

External configuration, secrets injection, environment variables, config maps

High

DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE

Observability Patterns

Distributed tracing, structured logging, metrics collection, correlation IDs

Critical

SRE, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer

Resilience Patterns

Circuit breakers, retries with backoff, bulkheads, timeouts, fallbacks

Critical

Backend Developer, SRE, Platform Engineer

Blue-Green & Canary

Zero-downtime deployments, traffic shifting, rollback strategies, feature flags

High

DevOps Engineer, SRE, Platform Engineer

Immutable Infrastructure

Cattle not pets, image-based deployments, infrastructure replacement over repair

High

DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE

Auto-Scaling Patterns

Horizontal pod autoscaling, cluster autoscaling, predictive scaling, scale-to-zero

High

Platform Engineer, SRE, DevOps Engineer

DNS-as-a-Service

Intermediate

Cloudflare DNS for domus-digitalis.dev; understand DNS propagation, CNAME flattening, proxy vs DNS-only modes

Hub Aggregator

No Route53, no Azure DNS, no multi-provider DNS failover