Software Architect's Handbook

Support for a variety of devices

Cloud-native applications must be able to support a variety of devices. Users of modern applications use mobile devices, desktop machines, tablets, and other devices. They expect a unified experience across devices as well as the ability to seamlessly switch between devices. In order to provide this type of support, cloud-native applications ensure that backend services are able to provide the functionality that a variety of frontend devices need.

With the IoT, many other devices are now connected, which means that some applications will be required to support them. To handle a potentially large number of devices and the volume of data that they produce, highly distributed systems designed with a cloud-native ...