Organizations have been empowered by cloud-native technologies to develop and operate scalable applications in modern, enterprise environments such as private, public, and hybrid clouds. Microservices, service meshes, declarative application programming interfaces (APIs), immutable infrastructures, and containers demonstrate this methodology. These methods allow loosely associated systems that are robust, observable, and manageable. Integrated with robust automation, […]
Every company should have a little technical debt, but keeping it below the recommended 5% can be challenging. If companies aren’t careful, the debt can grow to 10%, 50%, or even 80-90% in extreme cases. According to McKinsey, the average technical debt is between 20% and 40%. Repaying that quantity of debt takes planning, vigilance, […]
This post was originally featured on The New Stack, sponsored by vFunction. Today, over 80% of enterprise applications are not cloud native, meaning that many companies with a surplus of legacy applications are not benefitting from the business agility and the engineering velocity they once had. Approaching an ambitious and long overdue modernization project can be […]
The terms Cloud (or Cloud-Enabled) and Cloud-Native are popular in the software industry. People use the terms interchangeably, though they mean very different things. How are they different? In this article, we will carry out a detailed examination of cloud vs cloud-native applications. We will check out their characteristics, their similarities and differences, and their […]
