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Cloud Native Development: Building Modern Applications

Design applications for the cloud. Twelve-factor apps, serverless, and cloud-native patterns.

Sunny 13 min readJanuary 19, 2025

Cloud Native Principles

Cloud native applications are designed to exploit cloud computing advantages.

Twelve-Factor App

  1. Codebase in version control
  2. Explicit dependencies
  3. Config in environment
  4. Backing services as resources
  5. Strict build/release/run separation
  6. Stateless processes
  7. Port binding
  8. Concurrency via processes
  9. Disposability
  10. Dev/prod parity
  11. Logs as streams
  12. Admin processes as one-offs

Cloud Native Technologies

  • Containers
  • Microservices
  • Serverless
  • Service mesh
  • Immutable infrastructure

Conclusion

Cloud native development enables scalable, resilient, and manageable applications.

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