The cloud concept has transcended the initial concept of infrastructure and platform as services (IaaS, SaaS and PaaS respectively) to become a concept in which companies can manage with immediacy and flexibility due to its liquefaction through programming.

This trigger has allowed us to design a new generation of applications that are created with strong technical requirements (elastic scalability, incorporation of new technologies, real-time response, observability) and business requirements (fast delivery times, ease of pivoting).

Native cloud applications use these capabilities and enable us to design solutions quickly and sustainably with microservice-oriented architectures and by using the specialisation of each PaaS tool.

At Babel, we design the applications with two different strategies according to the needs of the organisation:

– Cloud-dependent solutions. These solutions take advantage of the manufacturer’s specific tools, which initially give us a lot of speed but also generate a strong dependence on these parts, which are often non-standard.

– Cloud-independent solutions. These solutions are mainly based on open-source software, which gives us flexibility and independence and the possibility to create multi-cloud and hybrid solutions.