Moving to the cloud offers organizations significant value. After all, the cloud can substantially improve the scalability and stability of apps compared to on-prem environments. In terms of resilience, the cloud offers more flexibility, faster recovery times after failures, and better automation and tooling. But these cloud capabilities don’t just happen automatically – organizations must know how to design, architect, and operate their applications in the cloud. Furthermore, cloud service providers don’t have flawless operations. They have outages which you must expect and design for to protect your mission-critical apps.

To realize the benefits the cloud has, companies need to design in a cloud-native manner and employ new techniques and patterns. Among these patterns involve choosing the best-fit data platform for their cloud strategy, simplifying the tech stack, and automating CI/CD to take advantage of the cloud’s capabilities while protecting against cloud concentration risk and ensure compliance to regulations on data sovereignty. So, where do they start?

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Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the most highly evolved, cloud-native, distributed SQL database on the planet. Helping companies of all sizes — and the apps they develop — to scale fast, survive failures, and thrive everywhere. CockroachDB is in use at some of the world’s largest enterprises across all industries, including some of the most recognized companies in banking, media & entertainment, retail, and technology. Headquartered in New York City, Cockroach Labs is backed by Altimeter, Benchmark, Greenoaks, GV, Firstmark, Index Ventures, Lone Pine, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, and Workbench. For more information, please visit cockroachlabs.com.