When we talk about cloud-native applications, we are simply defining them as applications that are built to run on the cloud and have the ability to access the cloud environment they are running on in one way or another. This capability can allow an application to be self-managed and, among other factors, can allow it to do any or all of the following:
- Provision its own resources, such as instances, databases, storage, and networks
- Access services in the cloud, such as monitoring and enumerating services to determine its own state
- Have the ability to scale itself according to events or metrics that are retrieved from the cloud
- Manage other applications running in the cloud
On the other hand, applications that have been designed with a server less approach in mind are designed in a way that they consume no visible server instance resources...