No matter what level of developer you are or whether you’re just starting out, you’d have to be hiding under some rock to avoid hearing about the cloud and modernizing application development. “Build apps quickly!” and iterate frequently to stay up with the ever-changing world of user requirements.
When it comes to modern approaches, it may be difficult to “see the forest through the trees” because there is so much information available on the subject.
Setting a standard for what is intended by “modern application development” is, in my opinion, an excellent concept.
A current approach to app development consists of five (5) elements:
1.Microservices
Many businesses begin with (what is known as) a monolithic application since it is the quickest approach to the market. The drawback with this technique is that if anyone process suffers a surge in demand, the entire architecture is stressed and must be scaled up to manage the load.
It is a different architectural approach to developing distributed and loosely linked applications, such as Red Hat’s microservices, in which one team’s changes will not affect the entire application. A shopping cart is an example of a service created for a specific business function.
It is possible to change these services at any time to fulfill any demanding scenario. The ability to rapidly design new app components to satisfy changing business needs is a strength of development teams.
2.Dedicated Databases
“Seldom can one database meet the needs of numerous diverse use cases,” remarked Werner Vogel, CTO, and VP of Amazon.com. Rather than employing a single monolithic database for all of an application’s data storage needs, developers are now utilizing a variety of purpose-built databases.
Modern applications are created with decoupled data stores instead of a single database, in which the database and microservice have a one-to-one mapping. As a single point of failure, using a single database is no longer recommended; instead, use a database that is tailored to meet the application’s specific requirements.
3. Serverless
In this architecture, the cloud provider (like AWS or Azure) is in charge of running a piece of code by dynamically assigning resources, according to Serverless Stack. Furthermore, you will only be charged for the resources used to execute the code. There are a variety of triggers that can be used to start the code, including HTTP requests and database events, as well as monitoring alerts and file uploads as well as scheduled events (corn tasks). The code is often run in stateless containers. Functions are the most common type of code that is delivered to a cloud service provider for execution.”
In 2014, AWS launched AWS Lambda, a service that allows enterprises to run code without creating or managing servers, introducing the concept of serverless computing. When a company goes serverless, they are freed to focus on activities that differentiate, such as product innovation, rather than the time-consuming and often expensive task of managing physical hardware.
4. Release processes that are fully automated
In the modern world of software development, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) represents a set of methods and a culture that enable teams to deliver code more frequently and more reliably. CI/CD or a “CI/CD pipeline” are frequent names for this implementation.
Because deployments are automated using CI/CD, teams can concentrate on meeting business needs, improving code quality, and ensuring security.
5. Security
“In the past, many firms handled security as if it were fairy dust—something to sprinkle on an application after it was ready for release,” says Amazon.com CTO and VP Werner Vogel in this post. Because of this, enterprises have to take a new approach to security, establishing firewalls around the entire program in a continuous release cycle. This, however, brought with it new difficulties. It’s a problem if an application is created with distinct microservices that may require various security settings,” says the author.
Therefore, security features are incorporated into every component of current programs and tested and distributed automatically with each release, in modern software. As a result, the security team is no longer solely responsible for protecting the network. Rather, it’s woven into every stage of the development process, from planning to testing. It’s important to remember that the engineering, operations, and compliance teams all have a role to play.”
DevOps is no longer simply about software development and operations. The security of your apps must be considered throughout their whole lifecycle, not just at the beginning and end. Consequently, “DevSecOps” has arisen as a name for the proactive design of application and infrastructure security from the beginning.
Conclusion
Modern application development, which makes use of cloud-native architectures, loosely coupled microservices, managed databases, artificial intelligence, DevOps help, and built-in monitoring, allows you to innovate quickly.
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