Simplifying Modern App Development with Cloud Native Technologies

Every modern software must meet a minimum set of performance, cost, security, regulatory compliance, and more standards regardless of what it performs functionally.

?Users want constant innovation and immediate responsiveness, which is more difficult than it sounds. This can be done by adopting cloud-native development processes and technologies that take full advantage of the advantages of cloud delivery models. The advantages of cloud computing, such as scalability, elasticity, resilience, and flexibility, are being taken advantage of by building and deploying cloud-native apps.

?Even so, there are always going to snag. Keeping track of the many fast-changing technology options available and developing or going through decision trees that encompass overlapping technology choices, at times from the same vendor, and evaluating alternative architectural permutations employing different technology choices is typically required.

?Building massively scaled networked applications that run over a distributed set of resources in multiple data centers is difficult. Even a small glitch in one of these apps might lead to a major outage or delay.

?Defining a proper application architecture and ensuring that it adheres to best practices becomes more difficult when you take these issues into consideration. This all comes at the cost of the time you could have spent fulfilling the needs of your clients sooner.

Building and running high-availability and resilient apps are easier with a modern application-development framework that simplifies architectural decision-making. The nine fundamental needs and 10 design principles we've developed at Oracle offer our opinionated advice on how to construct a contemporary app.

?Even if an app doesn't accomplish much in the way of actual work, we presume that it must meet a basic set of requirements for availability and security, compliance as well as cost-optimization and performance.

?In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we employ these 10 principles to manage and decide on the application architecture:

1. ?Open-source frameworks and mature programming languages should be used.
2. Apps should be thought of as services that communicate with one other via APIs.
3. Send your software in containers.
4. Deployment should be automated.
5. App development, runtimes, and data storage can all be simplified by relying on fully managed service providers.
6. Keep the layer of the app state-free.
7. All data should be stored in a convergent database that has full feature support.
8. All aspects of an instrument's operation can be tracked and monitored.
9. Automated data replication and failure recovery ensure that there is no single point of failure in the system.
10. Secure apps and data by implementing a defense-in-depth approach.

?This opinionated design includes technological suggestions for widely requested patterns to help developers start with the modern application development framework.

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