DevOps and cloud-native architecture have transformed how software is developed, deployed, and managed, offering businesses unprecedented agility and scalability. Together, they create a seamless framework for optimizing processes while leveraging the full potential of cloud environments.

Cloud-native applications need cloud-native databases to achieve the next stage of maturity and scale, but what is a cloud-native database? Let’s try to define what it means and figure out how it relates to Kubernetes.

While novel readers were busy paging through murder mysteries and historical fiction this past spring, developers were checking out data and analytics, Jakarta, cloud-native articles, Kubernetes and open source.