Cloud, Security & Operations
Cloud-Native Development
Building new applications and services designed for the cloud from the start: containers or serverless functions, managed data services, event-driven integration and automated delivery pipelines.
Capability overview
What cloud-native development involves
Cloud-native applications are built to use the elasticity and managed services of the cloud rather than imitate a data centre. That means stateless services that scale horizontally, managed databases and queues instead of self-run servers, and infrastructure defined in code alongside the application.
We choose between containers on Kubernetes or managed container services, and serverless functions such as AWS Lambda or Azure Functions, based on workload shape and team skills. Designs follow the twelve-factor application principles and include observability from the first release.
What is included
What we build
Serverless applications
APIs and background jobs on functions, API gateways and event services, well suited to spiky or unpredictable traffic.
Containerised services
Services packaged as containers and run on ECS, Cloud Run, Azure Container Apps or Kubernetes when finer control is needed.
Event-driven integration
Queues and event buses such as SQS, EventBridge, Pub/Sub or Kafka to decouple services and absorb load spikes.
Managed data layer
Relational, document and cache services chosen per access pattern, with backups, encryption and failover configured by default.
How we work
How we deliver cloud-native development
Domain modelling
Business capabilities broken into services with clear ownership of data, avoiding a distributed monolith.
Platform setup
Repositories, pipelines, environments and infrastructure code created in the first sprint so every feature ships the same way.
Incremental build
Features delivered in short iterations and deployed to a production-like environment for review.
Load and failure testing
Services tested under realistic load and with injected failures to confirm scaling and recovery behaviour.
Production launch
Gradual release using canary or blue-green deployment, with dashboards and alerts watched closely.
Related capabilities
Related capabilities in Cloud & DevOps
Public Cloud Solutions
Setting up and running business workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, from account foundations and India region selection to managed services that replace self-run infrastructure.
Private Cloud Solutions
Self-service virtualised infrastructure in your own data centre or a hosted facility, built on VMware, Nutanix, OpenStack or Proxmox, for workloads that must stay on dedicated hardware.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Connecting on-premises systems and public cloud into one managed estate, with private networking, shared identity, consistent security policies and workloads placed where they run best.
Multi-Cloud Architecture
Architecture for organisations that run on more than one public cloud, covering when multi-cloud is justified, how to govern it, and how to avoid paying twice for complexity.
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Questions & answers
Questions about Cloud-Native Development
Cannot find what you need? Our team responds to technical and commercial questions within one business day.
Ask a questionServerless suits event-driven and intermittent workloads with small teams. Containers suit steady, long-running services, custom runtimes or teams that need portability. Many systems use both.
It increases dependence on provider services, which is a deliberate trade for speed and lower operating effort. We keep business logic independent of provider APIs where practical so a later move remains feasible.
Yes. A common approach is the strangler pattern, where new features are built as cloud-native services around an existing application that is gradually reduced.
Defined products are delivered as fixed-scope phases. Ongoing product development is usually run as a dedicated team billed monthly.
Next step
Discuss cloud-native development with Acmez
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