of cloud-native leaders say architectural complexity is one of their biggest challenges.<\/span><\/p>\nThis has business-critical implications, as organizations need their applications to be powerful enough to satisfy customer demand at scale and to withstand security, compliance, and reliability risk. IT leaders want their technology to improve customer-facing applications\u2014from onboarding to self-service and e-commerce; internal product applications to improve agility and track supply chain issues; and people management applications to come out on top in the competition for talent.<\/span><\/p>\nAnother challenge is the mastery issue. Career developers want to hone their craft and continue improving their skills while providing maximum impact to their organizations, whether creating a new application entirely, deploying a new feature, or finding a way to scale. Organizations must give the developers fulfilling, meaningful work while removing the risk and reducing the complexity inherent to traditional software development projects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThere is good news: IT leaders realize how low-code can emphasize and engender innovation over tedium while also delivering high performance at scale.<\/span><\/p>\nRemove The Toil from Cloud-Native Development<\/b><\/h3>\n
As every developer knows, each development project is a unique and significant endeavor. No application is the same, and there is plenty of DevOps \u201ctoil\u201d\u2014thankless work that has no enduring value for the developer or the business but must be done anyway to maintain an application. The cloud provides its unique set of challenges, where changes come fast and furious, technology stacks evolve monthly, and the underlying infrastructure complexity continues to grow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nToil reduces the overall creativity and innovation of software projects, making it difficult to realize the benefits of cloud-native development. However, there\u2019s a way to eliminate toil, deliver powerful apps and focus on innovation. High-performance low-code provides built-in capabilities that remove the cognitive load of cloud-native architecture, designing security and compliance best practices automatically and ensuring high performance in the cloud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThis is especially true in the case of security and compliance. It\u2019s hardly realistic to expect someone to be both a good developer and a cybersecurity expert. Multiple DevSecOps frameworks and compliance regulations make building security and compliance into cloud-native applications even more complex.<\/span><\/p>\nRather than hiring an entire security operations center for a new application delivered to production, high-performance low-code can provide significant security and compliance policies out of the box. Organizations can augment with additional detection capabilities, vulnerability management, and PII protection on top of what these tools provide. Baking low-code productivity and strength of security features into a platform can ease the burden on an already-strapped cloud engineering team by removing many of the time and cost drains associated with this work.<\/span><\/p>\nBecause high-performance low-code automates out much of the toil of this process\u2014identifying redundancies, flagging vulnerabilities, even sweeping for compliance violations\u2014this allows career developers faced with cloud projects to get nearly everything they want out of a prototype the first time around. It also removes much of the guesswork from cleaning up code. Developers are also empowered to focus on the most interesting aspects of their job, such as delivering enjoyable user experiences at scale in the cloud. It also allows developers to roll out updates to users more quickly, get immediate feedback and iterate at an elite DevOps level.<\/span><\/p>\nScaling Cloud-Native Development and Learning<\/b><\/h3>\n
Traditional development methodologies do not easily scale cloud-native capabilities. To build a team of traditional cloud-native developers, an organization needs to bring on talent with various complementary skill sets to avoid a single point of failure. Each person must learn many technologies and architectures, ensure appropriate implementation, and maintain these skills. Low-code platforms provide additional benefits to both the business and the developer by scaling cloud-native capabilities via the platform to the entire team instead of requiring each developer to learn the full cloud-native stack.<\/span><\/p>\nCompanies already familiar with cloud-native development should look into how low-code can help them do more with less, scale, and reiterate properly. Companies just getting started in the cloud have a chance to do things differently from the beginning. Introduce low-code as a critical aid to the developer community in the enterprise.<\/span><\/p>\nNo matter where a business’s cloud-native journey is, low-code platforms can dramatically improve how the company builds its applications and ensures those applications can perform, scale and evolve to face tomorrow\u2019s challenges. By leaning on low-code to support rapid, low-risk cloud-native development, businesses aren\u2019t just doing more with less. They\u2019re setting themselves, and their technical talent, up for long-term innovation and success.<\/span><\/p>\n
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