OPINION
STOP THE SPRAWL
Donnie Berkholz is senior vice-president, product at Percona
"According to StackOverflow’s survey for this year, cloud platforms take up the top three slots in the ‘Most Wanted’ category. Building cloud native applications means thinking about how to use distinct microservices for each function and connect them up efficiently. Using the cloud, you can scale those services up as you need them, based on containers. Google’s Kubernetes is now the default for this, enabling you to automate all those tasks.