Cloud-Native Platform - No hosting stress with Cloud Commerce made by Smartstore

With a cloud-native platform such as Smartstore, not only can your strategy be implemented quickly and easily, but your offer can also be made available with just a few clicks. This in turn leads to a shorter time-to-market with unlimited scalability.

What are cloud-native applications?
Cloud-Native is an approach to create and run applications using the benefits of the cloud computing model. However, businesses need a platform to build and run cloud-native applications and services. They are taking full advantage of the cloud benefits such as scalability and elasticity. The basis for this is not only container, serverless and microservices technologies, but also agile methods and DevOps approaches. In other words. There is of course much more to the term, which can be loosely described as "scalable applications in the cloud, running on containers, microservices and unmodifiable infrastructure and managed by developers".

Which platform is best suited for the deployment of cloud-native applications and services?
Basically, any of the larger and better known platforms on the market. AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure. Smartstore favours Microsoft services, the so-called Azure Kubernet Service (AKS), for a very specific reason. Working with Visual Studio. Because Smartstore is an application developed on ASP.NET, various cloud-native applications can be easily implemented directly from Visual Studio. This makes us unique as a commerce software provider worldwide.

Which cloud native technologies of Microsoft services can I use?
Microsoft provides various services for the creation and operation of cloud native applications - these range from Azure Arc to Azure Kubernetes Service to Azure DevOps.

• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure Dev Spaces
• Azure Container Instances
• Azure Container Registry
• Azure Service Fabric
• Azure Service Fabric Mesh
• Azure Functions
• Azure Arc
• Open Application Model
• Distributed Application Runtime
• Azure DevOps

You can find more information about this topic here.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/cloudnative/

Let me get this straight, you are telling us we can finally break open our data silos and use Smartstore in conjunction with Microsoft Azure to implement our digitization process?
Yes, exactly, nothing easier than that. With the Smartstore Enterprise OS version and Microsoft Azure DevOps you plan more intelligently, you work better in a team and you deliver your results faster with a range of modern development services.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/ 

In order to develop cloud native on Azure, do I need to purchase the Enterprise Edition provided by Smartstore?
Yes, this is a prerequisite, namely the Smartstore Enterprise OS (Open Source) version provided by us. The Smartstore Enterprise OS version is an optimized development environment on GitHub and provides you with everything we have ever developed as open source. This allows other team members such as product managers and designers in your company to easily participate in the review process. This is a solid foundation on enterprise level.

https://smartstore.com/en/smartstore-enterprise-commerce-open-source-open-source-software-for-the-success-of-your-business

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