Why create cloud-native applications?
Undoubtedly, when defining cloud-native, there are a number of different nuances and perspectives that tackle the issue from different perspectives and with different levels of detail, ranging from technical implications to organizational and business impacts.
However, in my opinion, a cloud-native application (or architecture, if you want to think in broader terms) must be designed to essentially achieve three main goals (somewhat interrelated):
- Scalability is, of course, immediately related to being able to absorb a higher load (usually because of more users coming to our service) with no disruption and that's a fundamental aspect. However, scalability also means, in broader terms, that the application must be able to downscale (hence, reducing costs) when less traffic is expected, and this may imply the ability to run with minimal or no changes in code on top of different environments (such as on-premises and the public cloud...
