Cloud-Native Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide

Cloud-native architecture is a method of developing, designing, and operating applications within a framework-as-a-service model. It facilitates large-scale, easily adaptable and resilient systems, leveraging modern, dynamic environments like public, private, and hybrid clouds. The architecture includes principles such as automation and continuous integration/delivery. Notable adopters, like Netflix, Uber, and WeChat, demonstrate its capability to enable swift responses to market conditions, facilitate incremental updates, and offer individual scaling of services.