In the evolving world of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes is just the beginning. This talk explores how to design robust, multi-tenant application landscapes for large enterprises and SaaS companies by going beyond the basics. Instead of defaulting to standard cloud vendor offerings, we’ll discuss how to selectively leverage best-of-breed solutions from cloud vendors, specialized partners, and marketplaces. Whether it’s using Cloudflare for traffic ingestion, opting for the top compute offerings, or choosing specialized caching, database, and AI services, this approach ensures you get the best performance, scalability and avoid lock-in. On top of it all, we’ll discuss how to secure these diverse components using Zero Trust principles, ensuring a resilient and secure architecture. Join me to discover how to architect cloud-native solutions are meant to be designed.