Cloud-native applications are an important topic for people looking to take their applications to the point of being infinitely scalable to growing user needs and expanding data loads. Cloud-native applications can be defined as applications built to run on a distributed and scalable infrastructure. They are expected to always be available, reliable, capable of getting updates in real time, and not crumble under pressure. They typically rely on redundancy, load balancing, and various other techniques to achieve their objectives. The topic is not trivial by any measure. In fact, entire books have been dedicated to how to build cloud-native applications. In this section, we'll cover some key technologies utilized in the construction of cloud-native applications.
Cloud-native applications are not always deployed to a cloud, such as AWS or Azure. They...