The transition to the cloud is no longer a question of if, but of how applications should be designed to fully leverage its capabilities. Early efforts followed the lift-and-shift model, where existing applications were simply transferred to the cloud without fundamentally changing how they worked. While this model offers some initial benefits—such as cost reduction and basic flexibility—it does not tap into the real potential of the cloud. On the other hand, cloud-native software development represents a foundational change in approach: it focuses on designing and implementing applications that are built from the ground up for the cloud, based on principles such as flexibility, automation, resilience, and scalability.
