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For most enterprises, microservices and agile methodologies tend to go together. So, when you adopt a microservice architecture, you’re embracing more than just a new paradigm for building services.

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.

Technical leadership combines leadership skills with technical expertise to not only further and enhance your own technical abilities but also help develop the team around you to attain technical excellence.

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.

As you increase your seniority, part of your impact and performance often includes mentoring and developing others. Or perhaps you see a need to help develop your team, so you’ll find opportunities and needs to mentor other software developers.

Across most industries this year, leaders in all functions are working through difficult prioritization and budget justification exercises. Spending that was previously approved with minimal scrutiny is now being put under the microscope by finance and procurement teams. Software engineering organizations aren’t exempt from these intense audits, but development teams still have products to ship and expectations to meet. Now they’re attempting to pull it off with more limited resources.

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.

Our business is growing. Fiscal Q1 is almost wrapped, and it’s been a doozy: after closing our Series A our revenue is growing quickly, and we’ve been able to bring on a ton of new awesome customers–like OpenTable, BigPanda, Fastly, Adobe, and more.