Cloud Native Software Engineering

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current state of cloud native software engineering, highlighting challenges and research opportunities in designing and building applications optimized for modern cloud platforms and emerging IoT/Edge computing scenarios.

Contribution

It provides a practitioner-focused overview of cloud native engineering challenges and identifies key research opportunities for advancing practices in this domain.

Findings

Identifies engineering challenges in cloud application architectures

Highlights emerging IoT/Edge computing challenges

Suggests research directions for cloud native practices

Abstract

Cloud compute adoption has been growing since its inception in the early 2000's with estimates that the size of this market in terms of worldwide spend will increase from \$700 billion in 2021 to \$1.3 trillion in 2025. While there is a significant research activity in many areas of cloud computing technologies, we see little attention being paid to advancing software engineering practices needed to support the current and next generation of cloud native applications. By cloud native, we mean software that is designed and built specifically for deployment to a modern cloud platform. This paper frames the landscape of Cloud Native Software Engineering from a practitioners standpoint, and identifies several software engineering research opportunities that should be investigated. We cover specific engineering challenges associated with software architectures commonly used in cloud applications along with incremental challenges that are expected with emerging IoT/Edge computing use cases.