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In dynamic markets, addressing the application development and change requirements in an agile manner is imperative. The traditional software development based on the waterfall model does not support this requirement of agility. As a result, the products and the change iterations reach the end-user well past the business need ceases to exist due to changing market scenarios. In most cases, the market scenario already changes prior to the release of the new build making the new developments obsolete. Cloud Native environment not only favors agile application development and iterations but also ensures that the changes reach the end-user at the right time. Cloud Native fulfills the expectations of the digital business environment on time.
The digital world demands agility and flexibility. The Cloud Native environment has inherent flexibility and agility. Application Containerization, which is characteristic of the Cloud environment, allows to build applications based on microservices architecture or disintegrate traditional on-premise applications, and host them on Cloud. It allows the enterprise to tap into the benefits of Hybrid Cloud and find the best fit among Service Providers to achieve their business goals. The Cloud Native environment allows building minimum viable products or MVPs that can be brought to the market and continuously integrated and deployed further with additional features based on end-customer inputs. This methodology improves customer delight that in turn influences the enterprise net promoter score in the digital world.
Certain points have to be noted before adopting the Cloud Native environment –
Cloud Natives support faster Cloud adoption, rollout, and up-gradation of applications in the different engagements. Application Containerization and Microservices architecture form the basis of this agile environment that supports the faster time-to-market.