In a world thriving on instantaneous action, cloud-native apps use data visibility to provide businesses with an advantage in tapping into changes in customer tastes and trends.
As businesses move more confidently into the cloud environment, they are becoming increasingly cognizant of cloud’s distinct advantages. The cloud-native approach capitalises on cloud features which promote rapid innovation, agility and injects disruptive qualities which businesses aim to gain through digital transformation.
Cloud-native focuses on how - not where - applications are created and deployed. It employs new approaches in developing applications which become major competitive differentiators for business entities.
The cornerstones of cloud-native - microservices, DevOps, continuous delivery and containers – are built on scalable and flexible modern application frameworks which empowers development teams to do more innovative work.
Under the microservices architecture model, each application is a collection of small services that can be operated independently of other services in the application. This simplifies development and testing, allowing different development teams to create, deploy and scale their services without disrupting other parts of the application.
DevOps focuses on the speed of development, enabling software to migrate from design to production as quickly as possible. Automation plays a large part in this process.
Automation is also a key feature of continuous delivery, enabling the easy moving of small batches of software to production swiftly. Such agility empowers businesses to deliver applications rapidly, obtain feedback and make appropriate changes.
Containers, with its own unique writable file system, are fast to create and equally fast to destroy, as well as portable, scalable and ideal for running microservices.