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NOV 2017 Hello, Cloud enthusiasts! Silly question of the week: Want to streamline your development of cloud-native applications and thereby give yourself a competitive advantage? Answer: Are you serious? Cloud-native development is becoming a competitive necessity that can enable you to continuously improve your apps and enhance your users' experience. When combined with DevOps, cloud-native app development enables teams to rapidly add new features and capabilities, scale economically as user demand changes, reduce administrative tasks, rein in operational costs, and increase security. What's not to love? The new IBM Cloud App Service makes it easy to build cloud-native apps in the language of your choice, and deploy them to the IBM Cloud quickly. How quickly? Read "Build Cloud Apps In 5 Minutes" to find out. (Whoops -- gave away the ending!) You'll find plenty of other options for streamlining your cloud development in the listings below. If you like what you see, spread the word using our "Forward to a friend" link in the lower right. Got a question or comment? Get in touch with us through our feedback form. And don't worry, there's no question too silly for us (see above). Thanks for joining us! John Swanson - Managing Editor, developerWorks Cloud Computing Latest developer resources Increase productivity with five Cloud Foundry plugins AbdulKarim Memon demonstrates plugins that enable you to: develop cloud apps locally, show live stats for your Cloud Foundry distribution, save time normally required to copy and paste cloud app URLs, display app user information, and more. Five facts you may not know about Cloud Foundry This article highlights five important facts (some well known and some not) that can help enterprise IT managers make the right decision when they need to choose between Cloud Foundry and other PaaS environments. Cloud journey: Unlock enterprise data using APIs Learn how to create and expose APIs for enterprise data using LoopBack. This journey follows a common use case in which a fictional logistics company, Acme Freight, leverages existing enterprise assets using APIs. Using LoopBack, an open source Node.js framework, the company exposes assets located in an ERP system. DevOps with controls: Faster releases with cloud infrastructure platforms You can have it all: quicker releases and security. In this article, you'll learn about a discovery-focused, event-driven automation approach for controls to keep your organization safe in the cloud. Refactor existing monolithic applications to microservices one bite at a time This tutorial series breaks down the complex problem of refactoring monoliths into microservices step-by-step. Learn how to implement a systematic approach to refactor your monolithic applications and how to use the tools and techniques to help you along that journey. See how to migrate the monolith to microservices and then run that monolith in the cloud. Popular videos developerWorks Mailbag: Invoking a microservice hosted on IBM Cloud Functions You can (cloud) jam in our Garage In the News IBM and Dream Payments Expand Payment Services on the Cloud to U.S. Financial Institutions IBM Introduces Industry Platform Designed Specifically for Insurers Akamai Content Delivery Network Now Available to Enterprises on the IBM Cloud IBM Announces New Capabilities to Help On-Premises Customers Effectively Manage Compliance Data with Object Storage IBM Unveils a New High-Powered Analytics System for Fast Access to Data Science Events Webcast: Optimize existing banking applications and build new ones faster with IBM Cloud Functions 1 November Workshop: Up and Running on Cloud Foundry in 45 minutes or Less 20 November, San Francisco, CA, USA CloudNativeCon + KubeCon 2017 6-8 December, Austin, TX, USA IBM Think 2018 19-22 March, Las Vegas, NV, USA Cloud resources developerWorks cloud computing Cloud content library developerWorks Cloud journeys Bluemix essentials course IBM Blockchain Developer Center developerWorks TV Follow developerWorks     Join a community IBM Cloud Architecture Center Cloud Data Services IBM Cloud for Financial Services Subscriptions developerWorks newsletters ›› Forward to a friend You provided IBM with your email address so that we could keep you informed of important events and new business solutions. Please visit IBM Online Privacy for more information on the usage of your personal information by IBM. This email was sent in response to your request to receive the developerWorks Cloud Newsletter. If you no longer want to receive the developerWorks Cloud Newsletter, please unsubscribe here.