Tooling

Keeping an internal API as readable, maintainable, and as valuable to third parties as possible is no small task. It requires extensive planning and documentation to ensure that new developers can easily understand how the code works and what it does.

These days we all feel the pressure of shipping more frequently and keeping up with the demands of our customers.

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.

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

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 Diederik Van Liere, VP of Data & Engineering at Wealthsimple. Let us know who we should talk to next!

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

When you’re designing a microservice architecture, there are a lot of questions you have to answer. Some of them make themselves apparent very early in the process.

Embracing a microservice architecture typically also means deploying much more frequently, which can seem scary. But favoring many incremental deploys is actually a sound risk mitigation strategy since changes tend to be smaller and more isolated.

Let's explore Backstage, the problems it attempts to solve, and considerations to make before bringing it into your organization.