Cloud Native is a modern approach to the demands of the era of cloud compute. Cloud Native began as a software development approach characterized by a shift to componentized applications, or microservices. This approach allows applications to easily scale out to accommodate the compute needs of millions of concurrent users.

A recent shift to hardware designed specifically for the cloud computing environment that includes Cloud Native Processors is resulting in unprecedented scalability, flexibility, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness for cloud native applications. Adopting cloud native technologies and practices is considered by some to be the only path to a sustainable future of compute that don’t sacrifice performance and capacity while lowering power consumption.

Some workloads were designed from the start to be especially manageable, resilient, and observable as applications scale to meet the needs of cloud computing. While these workloads are already optimized for the cloud, the growing number of open-source software applications designed for cloud compute is expanding the possibilities of cloud native computing for the most common workloads, including:

• Big Data
• Video Services
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Storage Solutions
• Web Services
• Search
• Gaming

Scalability, flexibility, resiliency, and elasticity are the identifying features of cloud native applications. These qualities allow developers to remain agile and respond quickly to changing requirements—without impacting service delivery.

Cloud Native Processors are built specifically to meet these guidelines through single-threading architectures that make them highly scalable, predictable, power efficient, and high performing.