5 Key Principles of Modern Applications

Framework for Building, Running, and Managing Apps for the Next Decade 1. Cloud Native, Composable, API-First Architecture API-First Architecture 2. Declarative, GitOps-Driven Delivery and Operations 3. Observability and Closed-Loop Automation Tooling and Instrumentation 4. Zero-Trust Security, Compliance, and Resilience by Design VCF and Zero-Trust 5. Platform Engineering as a Foundation Summary Discover more from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog Related Articles 5 Key Principles of Modern Applications VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 77: Orchestrate like a Pro – Event Subscriptions and Extensibility for Every Admin with VCF 9.0 VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 76: Cloud Admin Fast Track – Learn Infrastructure as Code the Easy Way with VCF 9.0 In a recent panel discussion titled “Top 5 Criteria to Choose the Right Platform for Your Modern Workloads,” members from the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) team and Forrester analyst Brent Ellis explored how enterprises evaluate infrastructure platforms for modern, hybrid workloads. The conversation focused on five priorities: security and resilience, scalability, operational simplicity, developer enablement, and innovation. Forrester’s Ellis emphasized that organizations are seeking standardization in platform engineering, with platforms treating VMs and Kubernetes workloads equally. This is a core design principle of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0. This discussion laid the groundwork for why platform choices matter, especially for private clouds. Let’s now dive deeper into five key principles for successfully designing and operating modern applications, using best practices from NIST, CNCF, Google SRE, and ITIL. Modern applications are no longer confined to virtual machines, containers, or cloud accounts.