When it comes to cloud native application platforms, we’re at an important evolutionary point: will the best practice for platforms be to build or to buy? Should you choose the components you need for a platform and integrate them together, or should you buy a pre-integrated platform? Unless you’re a handful of organizations, the practical answer is that you should buy the platform. Before I get to why, what even is a “cloud native platform”? Defining a cloud native platformThe Platforms Working Group at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has a great paper defining “platform.” Trying…