The use of Cloud services is increasing. With the wide-spread use of cloud, it has become imperative for the organisations to ensure that the apps they develop are cloud native.

Cloud native is that software that is designed from scratch to avail of the cloud computing infrastructure which offers flexibility, scale, resilience and elasticity. Such an architecture is standards-based. It is also vendor neutral. It enables this software to work over any number of hardware pieces and cloud configurations.

It requires adaptation on the part of IT companies to develop cloud native apps. Such manpower engaged in native apps must have different skill sets. They must be well-versed in cloud and data-based architecture and security aspects.

Cloud native is a tectonic change and there should a lot of readjustment in the architecture patterns and the working style of the development teams to deliver efficiently. Less emphasis is on hard-coding to accelerate things. Low-code plays a vital part in the cloud native shift. Low-code accelerates the software development. There is abstraction and automation in the development process. It generates enhanced productivity. It obviates the need to have specialised hard-code skills and thus to spot such manpower in short supply. Low-code works with drag-and-drop functions and in-built user interfaces. There is rapid development of full-stack as low-code has models for business processes, logic and data models. There are cross-platform apps, APIs and connectors easy implement and integrate with third-party tools. Time is saved. Low-code platform approach allows the business to develop, integrate and test software quickly.

The maxim of ‘fail fast, fix fast’ can be used to spot the issues and solve them quickly.

In digital transformation initiatives, cloud native approach plays an essential role.