Cloud Native
Cloud Native- It’s that time of year again and the IT industry is laying down predictions for the year ahead. A good many of these stories write themselves, that is – they all feature cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation, mobile device centricity, IoT and perhaps a peppering of neural networks and Machine Learning (ML).
If you’re lucky, you get a forward taster of quantum computing in most enterprise IT predictions stories too, but don’t count on that every time.
But leaving the monolithic IT vendors themselves aside for a moment, what do the implementers think? London, UK-based cloud technology consultancy and developer shop Amido says its core business comes from rebuilding old-fashioned corporate technology infrastructures in the cloud. The company itself is cloud-agnostic (it doesn’t care so much about who is running the backend… be it Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services or one of the contenders to the big cloud triumvirate), so its view on what’s happening on the deployment level may be of some value.
From rebuilding to ‘just’ building
How much better would it be if Amido wasn’t spending so much time ‘rebuilding’ and could actually focus on ‘building’? To explain, if we do look at trends for 2019 and see that 2018 has been all about the now hackneyed term digital transformation (*yawn*) to move chunks of legacy IT to cloud, then perhaps the year ahead will be freshly baked with software builds created for the cloud, of the cloud and in the cloud. We logically call this state of IT development ‘cloud-native’ programming and deployment and the industry appears to largely agree that we are on the edge of this becoming the new normal.
Amido CTO Simon Evans points to wizardry from analyst house Gartner, which estimates that 80 percent of internally-developed software is now cloud-enabled or cloud-native.
“Cloud-native applications are specifically designed to run on cloud infrastructure, hence the term ‘native’. They are growing in popularity because they deliver benefits, which include: high availability and responsiveness, plus also strong resilience and flexibility through autonomous and self-healing capabilities, such as designing for failure,” said Evans.
That’s a nice enough overview, but many of us will know that part already. So can Evans back up his proposition by substantiating it and explaining what the upshot of the cloud in residence at more enterprises will be?
Dive into a data lake
The substantiation here (and perhaps proof of real cloud-native adoption in enterprises) is found when firms operate with a data lake and apply intelligence to it. This is a term used to define a large repository of data, much of which will be held in its raw, natural or first stage format such as source system data, log files and so on.
Companies build up a data lake when they run massive web-scale cloud applications and the data lake’s incoming water channel is always open, no data is turned away. You can ‘bottle’ portions of data for consumption, analytics and business visualization once you apply schema to it to show what its relationship is to other things.
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