The Cloud-Native Architecture: One Stack, Many Options

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As the chief technology officer of a company specialized in cloud native storage, I have a first hand view of the massive transformation happening right now in enterprise IT. In short, two things are happening in parallel right now that make it radically simpler to build, deploy and run sophisticated applications.

The first is the move to the cloud. This topic has been discussed so much that I won’t try to add anything new. We all know it’s happening, and we all know that its impact is huge.

The second is the move to cloud-native architectures.  Since this is a relatively new development, I want to focus on it — and specifically on the importance of pluggable Cloud-Native architectures — in today’s post.  But before diving into how to architect for Cloud Native, let’s define it.

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