Spring Cloud and Cloud native development
The use of a cloud offers you scalability, reliability, and low maintenance costs in comparison with on-premises solutions inside the organization. This has led to the rise of cloud-native application development approaches that are intended to give you the benefits from all of the advantages offered by cloud-like elastic scaling, immutable deployments, and disposable instances.
Definition
“A native cloud application is a program that is specifically designed for a cloud computing environment as opposed to simply being migrated to the cloud.”
Cloud Native Development
Cloud native development is a paradigm that focuses on building and running software that leverages the benefits of the cloud, such as scalability, resilience, and agility. Cloud native development involves using microservices, containers, serverless functions, and orchestration tools to create applications that are modular, portable, and distributed. Developers need to master the skills and tools that enable us to design, develop, deploy, and manage cloud native applications. We also need to adopt a DevOps culture that fosters collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.
Advantages of Spring Cloud
Spring Cloud implements Cloud Design Patterns and helps us in using the most popular solutions from that field. Applications developed using these frameworks can easily be adapted to be deployed on Pivotal Cloud Foundry or Docker containers, but they might as well be launched in the traditional way as separated processes on one or more machines, and you would have the advantage of a microservices approach.
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