Migrating from Monolithic Applications to Cloud Native Applications

With the rapid development of cloud computing, more and more applications are developed explicitly for the cloud infrastructure. And there is an increasing demand to migrate monolithic applications to cloud computing environment. Because of the differences in infrastructures, the cloud native applications have different design principles with the monolithic applications. Without correct guidance when working on the migration, the migrated applications cannot take good advantage of the cloud computing environment. Even worse, it may cause a totally failure of the migration. That would be a waste of resource because migrating a monolithic application to cloud computing environment is usually a huge project. With the hope to provide a general guidance, this article introduces the design principles of cloud native applications and the technical aspects needed to be taken into consideration when migrating monolithic applications to cloud environment.