The Benefits of Cloud-Native Applications for Your Business

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In today’s digital age, customers demand instant fulfillment, and speed is a key driver for businesses and services. To keep up with this changing consumer behavior, it’s essential to streamline your business model to align with customer actions. However, achieving enterprise goals can be challenging without new, digital strategies, which require selecting cloud-native applications over on-premises options.

According to Gartner’s findings, cloud-native platforms will serve as the foundation for over 95 percent of innovative and digital initiatives by 2025. Further, 90 percent of worldwide businesses will run containerized applications by 2026. Again, 20 percent of every business application will be running in containers by the year 2026. That’s what cloud-native technology is developed to deal with.

It’s a behavior-focused development model that is created, developed, and enhanced to run in a cloud environment. Cloud-native applications are simple to adapt, scale, and connect to the cloud, providing comprehensive capabilities with limited coding requirements for both large and medium-sized businesses. 

Simple Cloud Migration or Lift and Shift Isn’t Good Enough

While one of the simplest approaches to cloud migration is the Lift and Shift method of rehosting your current applications and data in a cloud environment with negligible changes, this isn’t enough. Migrating legacy systems to the cloud can result in challenges and compromise scalability and efficiency. The apps might fail to work on the cloud services. For changes, you’ll need people, time, and considerable investments. To fully leverage the benefits of cloud managed services, you need to look at cloud-native options today.

The Logic Behind Cloud Native Applications

Cloud-native applications offer maximum scalability, utilizing the microservice architecture to allocate resources to specific cloud managed services used by the application. This allows for flexibility and adjustability to cloud architecture.

Your cloud-native apps are implemented and hosted in a cloud managed ecosystem and are developed particularly to make the best use of the native features of a cloud application delivery model. The main characteristic of a cloud-native application is that it’s a solution used on a specialized device or platform. Our cloud consulting services encompass guiding businesses in identifying and implementing the most suitable cloud-native solutions.

Cloud Native vs. Cloud-based Apps

Cloud-native apps are quick to employ as there’s no requirement for software and hardware configuration. On the other hand, cloud-based apps can be sluggish due to software or server configuration, are not multi-tenant, and can be expensive due to the infrastructure system.

Below is the comparison between the two types of applications: 

Options Cloud-Native Apps Cloud-Based Apps
Implementation
Quick as you don’t need software and hardware configuration
Quick as you don’t need software and hardware configuration
Design
Multi-tenant
No multi-tenant
Hosting
Affordable due to the low cost of license as well as storage
Expensive because of the infrastructure
Scalability
Extremely scalable and updates in real-time
No scaling support and manual updates only

Cloud-Native Architecture

Typically, cloud-native application development involves cloud platforms, containers, microservices, Kubernetes, Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD), Application Programming Interface (APIs), and of course powerful DevOps.

Let’s understand what we mean by microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and DevOps. 

Microservices: They’re an organizational and architectural tactic for software development where a program is made of compact standalone services communicating over well-defined application programming interfaces (APIs).

Kubernetes: Also called K8s, it’s an open-source system for deploying applications, scaling them, and managing containerized applications. 

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD): It’s an approach for delivering applications to customers by embracing automation in the development stages.

DevOps: It’s the combination of methods and tools developed to improve a business’s capability to provide applications as well as services quickly compared to conventional development activities. 

In short, cloud-native app development depends on four key towers:

Cloud Native App Development

If you notice any of the following red flags, it’s time to upgrade:With cloud-native architecture, you design, build, and deliver an application code quite differently than what you would have for traditional monolithic architecture. This approach provides operational agility and innovation for your enterprise. 

Benefits of Cloud-Native Apps

Cloud-native app development allows for implementing new functionality and updates without interrupting application efficiency. You can scale up or down quickly, allowing your enterprise to use resources more efficiently and tap into customer requirements more effectively. The benefits of cloud-native applications include: 

  1. Faster Time-to-Market and Lower Costs: Cloud-native services lead to quick product development as well as launch for bug fix updates and new feature improvements. According to a study by a technology major, over 70 percent of development managers, developers, and IT executives proved that cloud-native services lead to quick product development and release.

In a cloud-native architecture, each solution is designed to work on a cloud managed services to cut back on costs associated with maintenance, backup, development, and resource use to improve the bottom line. Choosing the pay-per-model leads to significant cost reduction.

Example: One of the top defense organizations of the world used Kubernetes to reduce project release time from three to eight months to just seven days, while a smart card company in Europe saved considerable money by employing a custom cloud solution. 

  1. Simple Infrastructure Management: Cloud-native apps make infrastructure management easy with serverless platforms, you don’t need to set up on-prem networking, plan for storage, or provision cloud instances. This way, you can cut back on the time for infrastructure setup and use your current human resources in a better way than managing IT infrastructure manually. 

Simple Infrastructure Management: Cloud-native apps make infrastructure management easy with serverless platforms, you don’t need to set up on-prem networking, plan for storage, or provision cloud instances. This way, you can cut back on the time for infrastructure setup and use your current human resources in a better way than managing IT infrastructure manually. 

  1. Enhanced Customer Experience: Cloud-native services provides a seamless connection between applications and fluent user experience. Further, it delights your customer with feedback tools as well as new feature deployment.

Enhanced Customer Experience: Cloud-native development provides a seamless connection between applications and fluent user experience. Further, it delights your customer with feedback tools as well as new feature deployment. 

  1. Flexibility and Scalability: Based on a survey by a leading IT company, 75 percent of participants said that they prefer more flexibility for real-time enhancements leveraging cloud-native service. 

Example: A tech company designing an instant messaging solution was struggling to cope with its hosts, using the legacy configuration that failed to cope with the increasing volume of MySQL queries per second. The company opted for a database solution that helped it to continue with MySQL, also hosting its specific instances employing AWS. The company was able to manage approximately 500,000 requests every second, thus reducing the connection delay to 1 msec. 

Why Korcomptenz?

We help clients achieve more and remain competitive with a connected, secured, and scalable cloud environment that has minimum complexities, zero security compromises, is disaster-proof, and has a low downtime. Korcomptenz’s enterprise-level cloud adoption consultancy and advisory services specialize in building, running, and managing our client’s current inelastic infrastructure, software, and applications in a hybrid cloud managed environment that includes multiple clouds, on-premises, and the edge. As a certified Azure and AWS partner, we have empowered our clients to attain a multi-layered grasp of their day-to-day operations turning their IT cost-center into a powerful tool to accelerate business model change, lowering TCO and optimizing cloud investments with an ROI of up to 10X.

Conclusion

Cloud-native applications provide a comprehensive solution for businesses in today’s digital age. With their scalability, flexibility, and quick deployment capabilities, they can help you meet changing customer demands and drive growth for your enterprise. Request a complementary consultation today. 

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