Refactor involves rearchitecting and rewriting an application before migrating it to the cloud to make it a cloud-native application. Cloud-native applications are applications that have been designed, architected, and built to perform efficiently in a cloud environment. The benefits of these cloud-inherent capabilities include scalability, security, agility, and cost-efficiency.
Refactoring requires more time and resources to recode the application and re-architecture it before it can be migrated. This approach is commonly used by organizations that have extensive cloud experience or a highly skilled workforce. An alternative option for refactoring is to migrate your application to the cloud and then optimize it.
Common examples of refactoring include the following:
- Changing platforms such as AIX to UNIX
- Database transition from traditional to the cloud build
- Replacing middleware products
- Rearchitecting the application from monolithic to microservice
- Rebuilding application...
