This document describes why enterprises should use the kitsune framework to drive their cloud-native development strategy.

1. The Business ROI of using kitsune framework:
* kit framework is best suited for non-core products as an organisation you want the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of those
applications to be minimal. Enabling kitsune for non-core products has following advantages:
* infrastructure agnostic - kitsune abstracts the infra logic from developer. Making your organisation to have better
negotiation capabilities with the infra providers. Apps developed with kitsune can be deployed / migrated between infra
providers in minutes & no code change.
* lean team of UX engg & product manager. kitsune enables organisations to have pizza-team size for non-core products
* no re-skilling cost - developers need not go through the learning curve of cloud components. the declarative syntax of
kitsune makes it easier for web developers to build full stack app logic. kitsune reduces the re-skilling efforts by 80%
* faster development time - since developers do not have to worry about architecture, scalability and performance
kitsune reduces the development effort by 40%
* Secure & Compliant - kitsune aligns to organisation security & compliance rules. And these configs are never exposed to
developers. This ensures that one kitsune environment is setup, as a CTO you never have to worry about security &
compliance of the apps developed with kitsune
* Easy Vendor Management - as kitsune abstracts out the infra & architecture, it enables enterprises to work with
agencies without having to worry about the scalability, performance, security & compliance of the applications developed by
them.
For existing applications:
* Accelerate/Scale existing applications to a hybrid-cloud architecture (AWS+On-Prem) using kit-serverless-proxy. kit-proxy is
plug-and-play module which requires minimal code change and real-time fallback. E.g. Religare Health insurance used kit-
proxy to accelerate their existing web-applications hosted on TCL
* Containerisation & Template based deployment - kitsune can be used to containerise existing applications. The primary
advantage is once the setup is done any further changes would not require any manual involvement as kitsune auto builds a
CI/CD pipeline for containerised applications.
Extending functionality of existing applications:
* Applications using kit-serverless-proxy - kit-proxy enables developers to add / extend functionalities using simple JS
functions. Behind the scene the kit compiler creates the architecture using Lambda@Edge. Enabling developers not to worry
about scalability of new features or the learning curve of working with Lambda, CDN etc
* Applications containerised with kitsune - new functionalities can be easily built with kitsune's declarative syntax. The
compiler would create 100% serverless architecture for the new logic.
Building new full-stack web applications with kitsune:
* kitsune enables developers to build new serverless applications using the declarative syntax (that enables developers to
focus on user experience and not the backend architecture).
* kitsune runs on the cloud and has no browser footprint. This makes no integration (with other core applications like ERP,
CRM etc) code / logic get exposed to the client.
* kitsune compiler auto creates REST based data-management APIs to manage dynamic data or integrate it into other
downstream applications.
Salient Features of kitsune framework
* Open Source
* Customisable for Compliance - example, if you organisation wants that for any application built with the kit framework
should have its database on-premise and the compute to be scaled on cloud.
* Supports Single Cloud, Hybrid cloud and Multi Cloud architecture
* kit framework can be self-hosted or organisations can use managed-hosting service of kitsune.
* Enterprise ready - capability to manage multiple projects, online IDE to build / review applications.
* kitsune is essential for organisations trying to set up a cloud native culture, as it reduces the re-skilling efforts by 80%.