Modern application development: Resilience meets velocity

The modern application development lifecycle is getting a serious stress test. From Day 0 Design to Day 2 Operations, enterprises face increasing pressure to modernize software systems while accelerating delivery, embedding security and reducing tooling friction for developers. Doing it right, without shortcuts or silos, has become a defining challenge of the cloud-native era.

The result is a wave of complexity hitting engineering teams across build, release and operations. Continuous integration and delivery pipelines are evolving in real time, DevSecOps is no longer optional and developer experience now ranks as a critical metric for business success. Organizations that succeed are rethinking everything from infrastructure and observability to security posture and developer autonomy, according to Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst at theCUBE Research.

“DevSecOps has become table stakes for enterprises operating in regulated or fast-moving sectors,” he said. “Security doesn’t have to slow you down; embedding early in the software development lifecycle enables speed and resilience.”

Those realities — and the research behind them — will take center stage at the AppDev Done Right Summit, an exclusive digital event from theCUBE Research, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, on June 17. The Summit, hosted by Nashawaty, will examine what it truly means to modernize apps, empower developers and streamline the full development pipeline from a practitioner’s perspective.

Check out what’s in store for theCUBE’s coverage of the AppDev Done Right Summit:

Modern application development: Where autonomy meets delivery velocity

Platform engineering is becoming the backbone of modern application development. By abstracting infrastructure complexity, internal developer platforms empower teams to move fast without sacrificing stability. Mature organizations are shifting toward these models to streamline workflows, enforce consistency and reduce cognitive load, allowing developers to focus on building features instead of navigating toolchains or worrying about security compliance, according to Nashawaty.

“Teams with high developer satisfaction and autonomy deploy 23% more frequently and show two times higher innovation velocity,” he said. “This underscores the direct connection between empowered developers and faster innovation cycles. Building intuitive platforms and reducing toil through internal developer platforms is no longer optional; it’s a competitive differentiator.”

That connection between autonomy and innovation is driving widespread adoption of GitOps as a foundational practice. By codifying infrastructure and automating workflows, GitOps reduces human error and eliminates inconsistencies that often plague rapid deployments. Organizations that build mature pipelines — complete with automated testing, observability, rollback capabilities and CI/CD flows engineered for speed, security and developer trust — gain not just velocity, but also confidence in their release processes, Nashawaty noted. GitOps has quickly become a foundational component of modern application development practices.

“Eighty-four percent of DevOps teams using GitOps believe it improves developer productivity and reduces rollback complexity,” he explained. “GitOps practices are gaining mainstream traction because they simplify infrastructure management and enforce consistency. The measurable improvement in deployment success and rollback agility drives its continued adoption.”

That push for seamless automation across the stack is fueling demand for solutions that simplify both application workflows and underlying infrastructure. For example, platforms such as Heroku Inc. support code-to-production delivery by enabling internal teams to build, deploy and scale apps with minimal overhead. On the infrastructure side, Tintri Inc. empowers DevOps teams to spin up hundreds of virtual machine-based environments in minutes, offering self-service provisioning, automated snapshots and performance analytics. Together, they reflect how today’s platform strategies extend beyond GitOps to support full-stack agility in modern application development — from developer experience to Day-Two operations.

Resilience means more than uptime

As DevOps platforms evolve toward unified, end-to-end visibility, operational excellence is becoming the real benchmark of application resilience. Gone are the days when observability was an afterthought. In modern AppDev, it underpins everything from performance tuning and security oversight to faster incident response and smarter automation, according to Nashawaty. These capabilities are critical for Day 2 Operations, where uptime alone isn’t enough.

“Eighty-seven percent of IT decision-makers consider observability essential for modern application performance and reliability,” he said. “Observability isn’t just for site reliability engineers anymore. It’s fundamental to Day 2 Operations, fueling incident resolution, performance tuning and customer satisfaction. It’s the nervous system of any modern software organization.”

Resilience also depends on embedding security from the start, not bolting it on later. As organizations consolidate DevOps tooling to streamline workflows, there’s growing awareness that operational efficiency must be paired with embedded controls and clear escalation paths. Teams are investing in practices such as automated incident response, compliance-ready CI/CD pipelines designed for secure, auditable deployment and policy-as-code to address rising regulatory demands and intensifying threat exposure.

That same pressure to run securely at scale is forcing teams to reevaluate infrastructure choices, especially when it comes to containerization and resource efficiency. Performance still matters, but so does impact. As operational mandates evolve, sustainability is no longer a secondary concern; it’s part of the equation, according to Nashawaty.

“Containerization and right-sizing infrastructure can reduce the carbon footprint by over 30% in cloud-native environments,” he noted. “Sustainability and efficiency are now intertwined. Green software development is becoming a board-level conversation as organizations align environmental, social and governance goals with digital transformation initiatives.”

These evolving practices — from platform engineering to observability-driven operations — are the heartbeat of modern application development, and they’ll be front and center during theCUBE Research’s AppDev Done Right Summit.

TheCUBE event livestream

Don’t miss theCUBE’s coverage of the AppDev Done Right Summit on June 17. Plus, you can watch theCUBE’s event coverage on-demand after the live event.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch theCUBE’s coverage of the AppDev Done Right Summit, including theCUBE’s dedicated website and YouTube channel. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s events on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE Insights podcast

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify, which you can enjoy while on the go.

SiliconANGLE also has analyst deep dives in our Breaking Analysis podcast, available on iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify.

Guests

During the AppDev Done Right Summit, theCUBE analysts will talk with industry experts about the landscape of application development and modernization with industry leaders, practitioners and innovators.

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