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Get to Five Nines with a Microservice Catalog
More software, more problems? Software is eating the world and that means more people and teams are developing...
Why Is DevOps Important? A Philosophical Look for 2021
The term “DevOps” entered the IT industry in 2009 with the first DevOpsDays event held in Ghent, Belgium....
A Detailed Guide to How to Scale Microservices
You’ve taken on the microservices beast — congratulations! You’ve split up your services to do one thing well,...
Ultra-Fast Thumbnail Generation with Jekyll and libvips
How we started: thumbnails with smartcropper In the very early days of OpsLevel, our marketing website was powered...
Production Readiness in Depth: A Guide and Checklist
Our software ecosystems grow more complex every year. With new frameworks, dependencies, and technologies to help automate or...
Validating Kubernetes Best Practices
Kubernetes is great because of its almost limitless configurability. But this configurability makes it hard to ensure that...
Service Ownership: What It Really Means and How to Achieve It
Years ago, end-to-end software development involved dividing tasks based on where they fell in the system life cycle....
Manage Engineering Initiatives with OpsLevel Checks
Engineering initiatives are a necessity when it comes to ensuring security, reliability, and keeping the lights on within...