Cloud Native
In plain terms
Building apps designed specifically to exploit the cloud.
Going deeper
Cloud-native apps use containers, microservices, and managed services to be scalable, resilient, and continuously deployable. They're built for cloud elasticity from the start.
Under the hood
Embraces declarative infra, immutable deployments, and orchestration (CNCF ecosystem); contrasts with lift-and-shift.
Examples
Kubernetes apps, microservices, serverless, CNCF tools, scalable systems.
Think of it like...
Like designing a building specifically for its location rather than relocating an old one.