Are you just starting on your digital transformation journey and wondering what cloud-native is, and why you need it? We just added a new page to our Kubernetes library, called "Going Cloud-Native: 6 Essential Things You Need to Know." This article discusses the key takeaways to know about the term "cloud-native." It also describes how you can take advantage of cloud-native capabilities to speed up your development team’s productivity and increase your company’s innovation output.
A Brief History of Cloud-Native
Depending on who you ask, cloud-native can mean a lot of different things. Ten years ago, it was coined by companies like Netflix who leveraged cloud technologies, going from a mail order company to one of the world’s largest consumer on-demand content delivery networks. Netflix pioneered what we’ve come to call cloud-native, reinventing, transforming and scaling how we all want to be doing software development.