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Software engineering org charts have never been more complex. Gone are the days of large, stable teams that report to a single leader and work in highly structured ways on long-term projects.

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.

As a leader, onboarding with a new company is hard. The stakes are high–you and your new employer have invested a lot of time and energy into choosing each other–and the objective is complex–quickly go from an unknown outsider to a trusted leader. Oh, and make a positive impact on your team’s trajectory or output while you’re at it.

All over the globe, teams are scrambling right now to triage the impact of the recently announced Log4j vulnerability on their services and applications. Rather than reinvent the wheel, here’s a snippet from an informative Cloudflare blog post that puts CVE-2021-44228 in context:

Applications, products, and systems have become more and more complex. Microservices, dependencies, and external services provide greater functionality and improved reliability.

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.

Event-driven architecture (EDA) is more scalable, responsive, and flexible than its synchronous counterpart. That’s because it processes and distributes information as it arrives instead of storing it for processing when a client requests it.

Testing microservices can be difficult. Often, we underestimate these difficulties when first working with microservices.

Welcome to Level-Up, an exclusive interview series with standout engineering leaders who share what’s top of mind for them. This interview puts the spotlight on Seth Lochen, Senior Engineering Manager at Groupon. Let us know who we should talk to next!