The benefits of cloud-native application development

A cloud-native application is an application that is designed to take full advantage of the unique capabilities of cloud environments to maximize their agility, scalability, and resiliency. They are built with a microservices architecture in mind, benefiting from the innovation related to containerization, automation, and continuous delivery. This means taking a step back from monolithic applications, where the entire code base is one continuous, interweaving narrative, and breaking it down into more manageable components. These smaller services or microservices are blocks of code that are independent of each other and can be developed, deployed, and scaled, making the application much more flexible and scalable.

In order to understand the benefits of cloud-native development, we first need to understand what it means and the practices involved in its adoption. With applications requiring the ability to scale globally and having...