First, it was mobile-first, now it's cloud-first.
Emergent Software is a cloud-first development company built on serverless infrastructure, so we know how to take full advantage of the cloud computing delivery model and develop cloud-native software for your growing business. By developing cloud-ready applications, we increase your project’s speed to market while reducing your IT overhead and risk. Cloud-native applications from Emergent Software include elastic scaling to easily accommodate your growing user base. Moving your applications to the cloud can quickly accelerate your business and help you achieve your digital transformation goals.
What is Cloud-Native Software Development?
Cloud-native software development is an approach to building and running applications that fully leverage the benefits of modern cloud computing. It focuses on creating software that is designed to run in dynamic, scalable, and distributed environments, such as public, private, or hybrid clouds.
Key Features of Cloud-Native Software Development
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Microservices Architecture
- Applications are broken into smaller, independent services that communicate via APIs.
- This allows teams to develop, deploy, and scale individual components independently.
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Serverless Computing
- Relies on cloud providers to manage infrastructure, allowing developers to focus solely on writing code.
- Examples include AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.
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Containerization
- Applications and their dependencies are packaged into lightweight, portable containers (e.g., Docker).
- Containers ensure consistency across environments and simplify deployment.
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DevOps Practices
- Incorporates automation and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes.
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Scalability
- Applications can automatically scale up or down based on demand, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency.
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Resilience and Fault Tolerance
- Cloud-native applications are built to handle failures gracefully, often using distributed systems to maintain uptime and availability.
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Managed Cloud Services
- Utilizes cloud-native tools and services (e.g., databases, storage, security) provided by platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
Benefits of Cloud-Native Software Development
- Increased Speed to Market
- Faster development cycles and deployments
- Cost Efficiency
- Pay-as-you-go models reduce upfront infrastructure costs
- Improved Scalability
- Seamlessly adjust resources based on workload
- Enhanced Resilience
- Applications are designed to withstand infrastructure failures
- Futureproofing
- Stay competitive with access to the latest cloud services and innovations
Cloud-native development is ideal for businesses aiming for agility, scalability, and efficiency in their digital transformation journey. It represents a paradigm shift from traditional monolithic applications, focusing instead on flexibility and innovation in the cloud.
Can you cloud-enable your existing applications?
If you have existing custom software designed to run on Microsoft Windows or IIS, it’s very likely that with some minor modifications, it can be enabled for serverless hosting in the cloud. Our team rebuilds and ports legacy systems to the cloud enabling many of the same benefits as cloud-native applications. This can be a better option for those organizations who are on a tight budget or who are looking to enhance their current applications instead of building brand-new.
Scale your software and your business with Microsoft Azure.
Being a Microsoft development shop and Microsoft Cloud Solution Partner (CSP), we specialize in Microsoft Azure, the fastest growing cloud provider of the big three (the other two being Amazon Web Services and Google). Moving to the cloud enables your organization to stay ahead of the curve and scale to suit the needs of your customers and team. Azure is constantly changing and adding new services, but you can trust Emergent Software to stay on top of the near-constant improvements and make sure you take full advantage of the latest offerings. We have experience with the following technologies:
- App Services
- Function Apps
- Azure SQL
- Application Gateway
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Front Door
- Key Vault
- Logic Apps
- Virtual Machines
- Blob Storage
- Application Insights
- DevOps
- And many more!
We enable other cloud platform options too.
Prefer Amazon Web Services (AWS)? No problem, we have expertise in Amazon's cloud platform as well and get you many of the same benefits as Microsoft Azure. With our Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) experience, we can employ the AWS Toolkit, AWS Elastic Beanstalk or EC2 virtual machines to deploy any new or legacy custom .NET software applications into the cloud.
No matter the cloud platform of your choice, our expert team can help you navigate your cloud transformation journey and develop a unique cloud-native software solution to fit your exact business need.
