Jason Bloomberg wrote this article about how it seems that the entire IT infrastructure landscape is advancing so quickly, it might as well be lava under our feet. It is imperative that we find some island, some core of stability, lest the shifting magma of innovation and disruption burn us to a crisp.
Cloud-native computing takes the best practices of cloud computing –- horizontal scalability, resilience, and end-user configurability, to name a few – and extends them to the entire IT environment.
He then describes what he considers such an island: cloud-native computing. Here is why:
- Bringing the cloud to all of it
- “Less” #1: Codeless
- “Less” #2: Trustless
- “Less” #3: Stateless
As applications scale up and down in a cloud-native environment, microservices appear and disappear on the order of milliseconds. The only way to configure an infrastructure to handle such dynamic behavior at scale is via a codeless approach. The only way to secure such application assets is via zero trust. And the only way such applications can keep track of anything and still scale is by managing state in an inherently stateless environment. Good read!
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