Architecture

Microservice architecture has become a staple in modern software development, known for its approach of breaking down applications into small, independent services that communicate with each other. While it offers considerable benefits such as scalability, flexibility, and faster deployment times, it also introduces a range of challenges. This article explores these challenges in depth, providing a richer perspective supported by data and examples that will help software architects, developers, and business stakeholders understand and navigate the complexities of this architecture.

You know the value that an internal developer portal would give your team—but how do you convince your leadership? This article has four clear steps to follow, plus a downloadable pitch deck to help you make your case internally.

The OpsLevel Rubric is designed to help you ensure production readiness and measure overall service maturity against checks that you set across various levels. Here, we’ll explain how the rubric works in OpsLevel, and how you could set yours up.

Breaking the monolith and moving to microservices is a common approach for scaling tech companies. This article takes a closer look at how to get it right.

Learn how to achieve true service ownership using our four-step framework.

Choosing the proper API protocol can be challenging but selecting the one that will fit your needs is essential. In this post, we’ll explore some of the most common protocols and help you decide which is right for you.

Distributed microservice architectures are increasingly common today as engineering teams seek to scale both their applications and headcount. But for all the advantages of microservices, they’re not without tradeoffs. One area of concern is the web of dependencies that’s naturally created as more microservices are built and deployed.

You’ve taken on the microservices beast — congratulations! You’ve split up your services to do one thing well, but somehow, they just don’t scale automatically. And sadly, scaling doesn’t come automatically. You need to ensure your architecture is set up to scale correctly and appropriately for what you’re doing.

So, OpsLevel is cool and all, but you know what’s not cool? Clicking around in a UI whenever you want to change some of the properties of a service. Well click no longer! Now, with our Git Repository Integration, all you need to do is to plunk down an opslevel.yml file at the root of one of your repositories and OpsLevel will use that to populate the corresponding service on OpsLevel’s side. (If the repository isn’t already mapped to a service, OpsLevel will create a new one.)