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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.

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A service catalog is a valuable asset for any growing engineering organization delivering software at scale. But valuable assets aren’t created or earned easily. That’s why, at OpsLevel, we’re always thinking about ways to make building and maintaining an up-to-date service catalog simpler. Recently we upgraded our Discovered Services capabilities to do just that.

Today, Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration, running in approximately half of all containerized environments. Platform and infrastructure teams of all shapes and sizes are accustomed to operating Kubernetes in order to run their organizations’ microservices (and applications) at any scale.

At OpsLevel we believe Service Ownership is the future of DevOps. We believe this subtle, but important, shift can bring tons of benefits to engineering teams: autonomy, speed, resiliency, and accountability. We build new features in OpsLevel with these characteristics in mind; that’s why we’ve recently launched automatically personalized dashboards for all OpsLevel users.

Enabling Service Ownership is our north star at OpsLevel. We believe that true service ownership is the future of DevOps and a key to building agile, efficient engineering teams. As a part of making service ownership a reality, we’ve recognized that teams own services, not people. But of course, when you need to get something done urgently, you want to talk to a person, not a team. That’s why OpsLevel now supports tracking functional team membership alongside core service metadata.

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.