Cloud Solutions
Hosting designed around what your application actually needs, with the monitoring and backups that make it safe to rely on.
Software built for the cloud rather than moved onto it — and what that actually buys.
Cloud-native describes applications designed around the assumption that any single machine can disappear: state kept outside the instance, configuration injected rather than baked in, and scaling by adding copies rather than by adding CPU.
It matters most for products with uneven load. For a steady internal system, a conventional application on managed hosting is simpler and cheaper, and calling it cloud-native would change nothing.
Hosting designed around what your application actually needs, with the monitoring and backups that make it safe to rely on.
Building a software product means building a business system around it too — tenancy, billing, onboarding and support tooling.
Software shaped around the way your business already works, instead of a packaged product you have to reorganise around.
Applications that run in the browser, handle real workloads and hold up when several departments depend on them at once.
People look for this subject using a lot of different wording. These all describe the same thing, and this is the page for all of them.
Only if the load justifies it. Building for elastic scale you will never use adds cost and complexity for nothing.
Partly, and usually in stages — externalising state and configuration first, containerising next. A full rewrite is rarely the right way to get there.
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Describe it in your own words and we will tell you what it would take, or whether something simpler would do the job.