Best practices for greater efficiency
Despite concerns about data security and confidentiality, the cloud offers a number of attractive features. For developers, cloud-native and DevOps technologies represent an opportunity to gain in speed and efficiency.
Creating and delivering applications in response to customer needs is more than just a concept; it's one of the key factors in maintaining and developing market share.
As a result, cloud-native technologies become the de facto choice for development teams. This approach involves building and deploying applications that take full advantage of the cloud's strengths, including automation. The result: greater agility, resilience and portability.
"The vision of software as a monolithic construction is now obsolete and considered an anti-model for stability and speed of development", observes Veracode, a company specializing in application security, in one of its reports on so-called disruptive technologies.
Complex computing environments
There are four main concepts that serve as the basis and reference for cloud native: microservices, containers, the CI/CD approach and DevOps.
A cloud-native application architecture enables developers to use a platform as a means of abstracting underlying infrastructure dependencies. Modular architectures, based on microservices loaded with unique processes and communicating within containers, enable a monolithic application to be transformed in stages.
In addition, a cloud-native application platform automates infrastructure provisioning and configuration, dynamically allocating and reallocating resources at deployment time according to the application's ongoing needs.
Is the cloud-native approach the miracle solution? Unfortunately not. No technology can claim to be cloud-native. Corporate IT environments are complex. There is no single solution capable of building a "cloud-native" technological foundation.
Like digital transformation, the integration of cloud-native technologies implies a complete transformation of the organization.
