The cloud-native approach to software development has brought a paradigm shift to how applications scale and self-manage themselves, as the demand surge.
What are cloud-native applications (CNA)? Why it is the next big thing in software development industry? How does it help businesses to build a self-sustainable software application? The upcoming segment answers all these queries, introduces you to cloud-native applications, its key attributes, and how your business can benefit with this software development approach.

What are Cloud-Native Applications?

Cloud-native applications natively utilize the infrastructure and services of cloud computing providers, such as Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services. These applications are specially designed to take advantage of cloud-computing frameworks (compute, storage, network), which are composed of numerous loosely-coupled services.

With such development approach, developers have the advantage of breaking down the application into small services (microservices architecture) that runs on different servers and locations. This offers some major advantages to the stakeholders, such as curbing redundancy, better infrastructure management, fault isolation etc.

Benefits of Cloud-Native Application Development:

Since the infrastructure does not run locally, a cloud-native application can be built with redundancy in mind. With entire infrastructure hosted on cloud, applications are able to withstand hardware failure.

Cloud-native approach to development relieves the operations team from manually managing the infrastructure resource and rather deploy the applications on an infrastructure that utilizes the underlying compute, storage, and network resources of a cloud service.

There is continuous delivery of new features, without affecting the entire application. Since all the services are independent, such an architecture on cloud offers fault isolation, wherein a bug in one service won’t affect another.

Getting Started with Cloud-Native Application Development:

For building cloud-native application, you need to understand which cloud service works best for your application, in terms of efficiency and cost. You can opt for one or more cloud services. However, which service to choose requires a lot of comparison for a number of factors.

For help, you can contact our cloud-experts through 30-minute free consultation program. Our team will analyze your application requirement and suggest the best cloud service to get started with a CNA.