The enterprise is under tremendous pressure when it comes to modern application deployment. The industry faces a shortage of developers while seeing a surge in requests for complex application development. Resources are already squeezed, and companies want to free up their development teams to focus on the higher-order design decisions and execution to deliver business outcomes. 

Today's applications require and consume services such as data streaming, data science, machine learning (ML) capabilities, and API management; these are some of the most complex to configure at scale, and they need to work together seamlessly. Ease of access, simplicity of use, and consistent deployment across hybrid cloud platforms are key for empowering developers to productively create complex applications that scale and run where they are needed.