What are cloud-native development principles? The engineers working at the Heroku platform have compiled a set of ideal practices for web application development to raise awareness of some of the systemic problems and propose solutions to these problems. These principles are commonly known as The Twelve-Factor App. Later, Kevin Hoffman’s Beyond the Twelve-Factor Application book refreshed the original principles and came up with a revised order along with a few newer priniciples to suit modern cloud-native application needs.

What is cloud-native? Cloud-native applications are highly distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, loosely coupled, manageable, and are deployed in the cloud. Cloud-native applications are typically segregated into several services for ease of deployment and maintainability. They leverage the advantages of cloud computing models. Here is a definition of cloud-native from Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF): Cloud native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds.