The Hybrid Cloud Runtime and the Rise of Application Platforms

We often meet customers that have migrated to the public cloud only to later determine that some of their critical legacy application patterns have transitioned to a public cloud implementation, and they are now paying higher costs due to this design flaw. Regardless of cloud location, what really matters is how well you have abstracted the application platform nature of your enterprise workloads. If you don’t understand your application workloads in terms of scalability, performance, reliability, security, and overall management, then you are simply shifting the problem from one cloud to another.

IT practitioners are bringing their old habits to new problems. The key to this problem is deeply rooted in the knowledge gap that exists between development and operations organizations. In this session, we talk about the notion of the application platform and its teachings to close the gap that exists between developers and infrastructure architects. At the most fundamental level you can think of application platforms as an abstraction of three major parts: 1) application code logic; 2) application runtime where the code runs; and 3) infrastructure abstractions such as CaaS, K8s, and fundamental IaaS. We will also cover the notion of the Hybrid Cloud Runtime (HCR) as a common control plane that will help in getting a common observability across such multi cloud distributed applications. At the most fundamental level HCR is made of Servicemesh, and a set of application runtime aware controllers to manage SLA and help SREs optimize their day-to-day interactions with such systems.