Cloud Native Applications - Part 1: Introduction

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  ⚖️ The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) is the technical governing body of the CNCF Foundation.

  

In the past couple of years, there is a buzz about cloud-native applications. In this series of posts, I will review what exactly is considered a cloud-native application and how can we secure cloud-native applications. Before speaking about cloud-native applications, we should ask ourselves – what is cloud native anyway? The CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) provides the following definition: "Cloud native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs exemplify this approach. These techniques enable loosely coupled systems that are resilient, manageable, and observable. Combined with robust automation, they allow engineers to make high-impact changes frequently and predictably with minimal toil." Source: https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/DEFINITION.md It means – taking full advantage of cloud capabilities, from elasticity (scale in and scale out according to workload demands), use of managed services (such as compute, database, and storage services), and the use of modern design architectures based on micro-services, APIs, and event-driven applications.

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  A Java wrapper to run Spring, Spring Boot, Jersey, and other apps inside AWS Lambda.

  

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