Each company approaches development differently based on its business objectives. During the native app lifecycle, a company should consider how the app will be built, how performance is measured, and how continuous improvement will be implemented. Nevertheless, some of the best practices (but not all) for cloud-native apps can include:
Streamline the release pipeline: use continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) to automate the release of high-quality code efficiently and as quickly as possible;
Avoid vendor lock-in: make sure your application isn’t dependent on a vendor’s service or feature to work. Likewise, avoid PaaS services that allow developers to build and deploy apps only to specific clouds or environments;
Provision resources with IaC (Infrastructure as Code): use IaC to provision resources in a safe, repeatable way, and build applications without the need to write code manually (or custom scripts). With IaC, developers can track changes in a source repository;
Monitor documentation: many teams build cloud-native apps without having a clear view of what other teams are doing. Thus, developers can track any changes and look at how each team contributes to development through document monitoring;
Use serverless tools: serverless technologies provide automatic scaling, built-in high availability, and pay-per-use billing models, which allow companies to run code, manage data, and integrate applications with no need to provision or manage servers;
Increase observability: companies can establish good observability in their environments by using serverless tools and processes. It will allow companies to explore what is happening flexibly and figure out the root cause of issues they may not have predicted;
Ensure a robust approach to security: organizations must implement security policies from the start and adapt security to cloud-native apps. For example, utilize DevSecOps, use a defense-in-depth strategy, include security in cloud-native development workflows, and automate and orchestrate threat mitigation (and many others).