Legacy application usefulness typically diminishes as newer technologies come onstream and application demands on the legacy application begin to outstrip its capacity. Legacy applications cannot usually scale effectively, they run slowly, are vulnerable to security threats, and are unable to leverage cloud services. Businesses can turn to a cloud-native approach to modernize these applications. Cloud engineers and architects will be critical to action this change and must understand this process to reap increased innovation, productivity, and development.
Shifting to the Cloud
A cloud-native approach allows cloud engineers and architects to create, deploy, and manage applications in a cloud environment. Shifting applications to this approach provides benefits such as scalability, reduced costs, agility, and resilience.
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Scalability. Cloud-native applications scale to handle increasing workloads, which ensures that applications perform well. This is achieved by breaking the application into smaller components that communicate with each other, instead of …