With the increasing prevalence of digital services replacing traditional personal and business needs and influencing our habits, there is a continuous rise in data consumption and the utilization of Cloud services. As businesses grow, they face a new challenge: Scaling.

For software, scaling entails adopting new practices and advanced architectures. Embracing the Cloud-Native movement with its functions and advantages, software practices and trends are now focused on creating or migrating applications to decoupled architectures. This involves considering various options:

1. Microservices: These are independently deployable applications with their isolated data persistent layers, ensuring they are not shared with other services.

2. Polyglot architecture: This approach allows businesses to avoid being tied to a single homogenous stack with only one programming language or data persistence option. Instead, they can use different language stacks for different purposes, taking advantage of various Database and Datastore options.

3. Containers: By defining all application dependencies, businesses can ensure portability from the developer workstation to production, making the deployment process smoother and more reliable.

4. Serverless: This strategy involves breaking down the application into functions and deploying these functions to Cloud-managed clusters. This approach abstracts away the need for managing underlying servers and middleware, providing greater flexibility and options to trigger services as needed.