Understanding cloud-native apps

Although the whole cloud-native thing can feel a bit buzzword-ish in today’s world, there is some merit behind the idea of building cloud-native apps. The way an application is architected matters as it relates to how it can be deployed, managed, and maintained later. The way a platform is built matters because that’s the starting point for how an application can be deployed and how it can be run.

Throughout the years of technology’s existence, there have been multiple different methodologies around how applications are architected and built. The original methods were formed around on-premises systems, such as mainframes and servers. After that, applications started to be architected for virtualized hardware platforms, such as ESXi, and other virtualization products, with the idea in mind of utilizing more of the server, but for different workloads instead of just one workload running like in the bare-metal days. After virtualization...