07. The Business Benefits of a Cloud Native IDP
A cloud native IDP will make application developers more productive.
By Chris Munford, CEO/Founder of Nethopper.io
A Cloud-native IDP will reduce cognitive load on your application developers and make them more productive. Here’s a list business outcomes that an IDP will produce:
Accelerate Day 1 Modern Application Delivery
Decomplicate Application Operations, including Day2 (ongoing) upgrades
Significantly Reduce Operations burden/staff
Improve Application availability and resilience
Centralized management for multiple apps, clouds, and teams.
Increase application scale; numbers of applications, users, and performance
Unlock cloud provider portability and migration
Support hybrid, multi, and edge cloud scenarios
Onboard new Developers and Operators faster
Function with lower skilled Developers and Operators
Increase auditability and governance
Improve security posture
Reduce impact of key employee loss/churn
Repeatable and Automated Production systems (Disaster Recovery)
The rise of IDPs
It’s apparent why Cloud-Native IDPs are so important to the success of modern applications. Business and technology leaders are noticing, and that is why so many are adopting an IDP-centric approach. The results of Puppet's The State of Platform Engineering Report and Gartner's study of enterprise IDP and Platform engineering adoption plans are summarized below:
To learn more about the IDPs and how to build one, keep on reading!