SRE

Open source developer portal project Backstage hasn’t been on the scene for long. But in that time it has gained popularity quickly. The rate at which it’s added stars on GitHub is telling.

Kicking off a Kubernetes migration? Moving from cron jobs to a data orchestratror? Locking down your software supply chain? Or maybe all three? Whether paying down technical debt, upgrading a library version, or staying on top of security and compliance, engineering managers and directors have a lot to coordinate:

Downtime sucks (duh) - it means unhappy end users and engineers. Failures and error messages frustrate customers and interrupt engineers (or worse, wake them up).

Software developers have been putting badges on their repositories for a long time. Since they’re easily recognizable and have high information density, badges make it simple for developers to signal (or understand) things like code quality, test status and coverage, version, framework, or adherence to various standards.

With services, proper reliability is critical to success. But many don’t fully understand what reliability entails. In this post, we’ll set you up for success with an essential guide to understanding and improving service reliability.

Microservices will change. This is inevitable. But how do you manage that change to ensure your consumers don’t feel unnecessary disruption? Alternatively, what best practices can you follow to make migrations easy?

A security vulnerability was published on December 12th, 2021 by the NIST for Log4J version 2.14.1 or earlier, dubbed CVE-2021-4422. OpsLevel does not use Java in its technology stack and is not affected by this security advisory.

Shifting to a microservice architecture comes with well-known benefits. Isolation between systems and teams means feature teams can iterate faster and the entire software engineering organization can scale with more efficiency and agility.

Improving your microservice security isn’t like improving the security of a monolith application. Microservices provide lots of flexibility for application developers.