What Are Cloud-Native Applications?
Unlike monolithic applications, cloud-native apps consist of several loosely coupled microservices. They are built for the serverless infrastructures that are offered by Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers, like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. They are engineered to benefit from modern deployment and development practices such as CI/CD, DevOps, containers, and microservices.
Cloud-native applications are composed of several microservices developed independently and designed to integrate with any cloud environment. These microservices work together as a single application, but each component can be independently improved, scaled, and updated.
It’s important to understand that going cloud native is about more than tools and technology. Cloud-native development requires using microservices and a responsive architecture, which may necessitate changes to your internal culture, teams, and processes.
Why You Should Consider Cloud-Native Solutions
If you have plans to grow your application sometime in the future, then you’ll need to start thinking about moving toward a cloud-native solution. Here are just some of the many benefits this approach can provide.
Scalability
If you’re adding more and more features and need additional resources to support them, your IT environments may soon become overcrowded. This puts strain on CPU processes and causes memory leaks, among other problems. Moving to cloud-native IT allows teams to build out applications quickly, thanks to automated deployment operations, optimized workflows, and on-demand resource provisioning.
Develop in Different Coding Languages
With cloud-native solutions, you don’t need to have just one language or one technology to build the entire application. This means you can start hiring different types of developers and build new features using the right programming language for the job.
Reduce Costs
Money, of course, is one of the biggest factors when it comes to deciding to go cloud native. Consider how much money goes toward on-premises servers, along with how many people are on your team. How often do you deploy and how much time do you lose each time you release a new version?
When cloud-native applications are implemented using a DevOps approach with CI/CD, they can produce substantial ROI and generate business outcomes that you might not have produced with your legacy software. They can also help reduce the costs of owning and managing infrastructures and technology tools, and can facilitate the delivery of new, high-quality functionality faster than the software monolith allowed.
Cloud-Native Applications Can Provide Improved User Experiences
Adopting cloud-native solutions enables organizations to deliver a consistently positive experience to end-users. Additionally, cloud-native application development may make it easier to maintain a competitive edge, allowing for faster deployments and continuous improvement.
How Tiempo Helps Businesses Realize the Benefits of Cloud-Native Architecture
Our high-performing teams will help your organization realize the benefits of a cloud-native architecture fast, without interrupting service or processes.
Our experts offer the following services to make your cloud transition as seamless as possible.
- Implement New Tools, Practices, & Culture. Our team helps you modernize your application to leverage modern deployment and development practices such as CI/CD, DevOps, containers, and microservices. We’ll also help you select the right PaaS providers and tools, and help you integrate them into existing workflows.
- Making the Business Case for Cloud Native. We can help you compare the cost of staying with your on-premise environment vs migrating to the cloud. We can also help you determine how much time you are losing between deployments. We can help you analyze performance improvements that can be gained through modernization.
- Custom Microservices. Our cloud-native services include building and deploying microservices applications that leverage the flexibility and scalability of modern cloud environments. Cloud-native microservices allow for ongoing improvements through modern, Agile practices as well as DevOps and CI/CD, minimizing the effort of releasing new versions to users.
- Container Strategy. A container strategy presents an alternative to fully rearchitecting your legacy application on a cloud-native architecture. Container technology allows you to take advantage of the performance, security, scalability, and reduced costs of moving to the cloud.
- Cloud-Native Security. Cloud-native security hinges on automated detection and response at scale. Tiempo’s experts will help you move from a traditional security model to a cloud-native one designed to keep your data safe and secure.
Tiempo Development: Your Partner in Cloud-Native Application Development
Done right, cloud-native applications offer enormous benefits, including cost advantages offered by pay-as-you-go pricing models and the horizontal scalability provided by on-demand virtual resources.
Still, there are several challenges that come with making the shift toward a cloud-based architecture — from change management to learning how to use new tools.
Tiempo’s cloud specialists work directly with your development team to make your transition to the cloud as seamless as possible, applying microservices, CI/CD, and DevOps practices, along with the right tools to make your initiative a success.
To learn more about Tiempo Development’s cloud-native services, contact us today.
