Cloud-Native Applications (NCA) is a style of application development that encourages easy adoption of best practices in the area of continuous delivery and distributed software development. These applications are designed specifically for a cloud computing architecture (AWS, Azure, CloudFoundary, etc).

DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, and containers are the key concepts in developing cloud-native applications.

Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Docker, Jenkins, Git are a few tools that can help you write Cloud-Native Application without much effort.

• Microservices

It is an architectural APPROACH for developing a distributed system as a COLLECTION of small services. Each service is responsible for a specific business capability, runs in its own process and communicates via HTTP REST API or messaging (AMQP).

• DevOps

It is a collaboration between software developers and IT operations with a GOAL of constantly delivering high-quality software as per customer needs.

• Continuous Delivery

Its all about automated delivery of low-risk small changes to production, constantly. This makes it possible to collect FEEDBACK faster.

• Containers

Containers (e.g. Docker) offer logical isolation to each microservices thereby eliminating the problem of "run on my MACHINE" forever. It’s much faster and efficient compared to Virtual Machines.