Cloud-Native Applications

In recent years, we've been hearing a lot about the cloud, but without real meaning. It was just a buzzword, and everybody was rushing to get some Amazon EC2 instances and put some services on it, just to spread the word—It's in the cloud; I put it in the cloud; we're in the cloud.

Embracing the cloud is much more than deploying something on it. Behind the word cloud, there's an entire world that isn't about a new technology or innovation or migration (even worse, transformation); it's about a revolution.

It's a revolution in terms of infrastructure, and development, deployment. Revolution in terms of teams.

The key point for the infrastructure is automation. Everything needs to be automated—provisioning servers, ...

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