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Approaches to Cloud-Native Application Security

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Microservices and Containerization Trend Report.

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Securing cloud-native applications requires proper understanding of the interfaces (boundaries) being exposed by your microservices to various consumers. Proper tools and mechanisms need to be applied on each boundary to achieve the right level of security. Properly securing the infrastructure on which your application runs is also very important. This includes securing container images, securely running container runtimes, and properly configuring and using the container orchestration system (Kubernetes). 

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Delivering a Successful API: Know What it Takes

Modern businesses are highly consumer-driven. Delivering value to our customers should, therefore, be our first priority. Making the tasks of our customers more convenient and efficient should be our primary goal. To do that, we need ways to figure out “what” exactly makes our customers more efficient and brings them convenience in their tasks. 

This requires a lot of trial and error. This requires us to build and experiment with systems and features to see if these capabilities actually bring significant value to our customers. This is the primary motivation that drives enterprise architecture to be much more disaggregated and composeable. Heard about “Microservices” anyone?