In the era of XaaS, hosting an application in the cloud is now at our fingertips.  All the ilities such as scalability, flexibility, security, availability to name a few, makes us feel confident that we are better prepared than ever before to focus on product/feature development and not worry about infrastructure/hosting complexities.
 
For large enterprises with thousands of applications that demand complex connectivity patterns, using cloud native solutions with suboptimal design might lead to increased complexity, cost overruns, security threats and performance issues for low-latency applications. Also, the ability to delete and recreate services can quickly lead to technical debts that may lead to security vulnerabilities. Ability to consume services with patterns that suit each individual/team/application could quickly lead to non-compliance. Experiments in the cloud could add $$ into your bill even before you realize.  DNS, TLS, Security, Cost, Compliance requirements, Partner Connectivity and  an assortment of many such requirements to be managed in the cloud impacts development productivity and velocity.

If you are on a mission to help your developers to focus on their core work and improve development velocity, this talk might help you understand how we have addressed a few of the above mentioned challenges.