Going into the new year, we had several exciting things in the works: expanding our office space, growing the team, attending and hosting events, and releasing a ton of new features for our users.

In the modern web, an API is a crucial and inherent part of any application. Each time you open a news website, gaming site, or online banking page, or whenever you use any other online service, you make one or more API calls to a server. And yet, this is something you most likely never think about. In this article, we’ll discuss what an API is (or simply remind those who already know) and explain the role of third-party APIs in building your own service.

Are terms like “Error budgets” and SLOs roadblocks on your way to adopting SRE practices for your organisation? Our latest blog talks of "How to SRE without an SRE on your team", where we look at some of the most elementary SRE concepts that you can start implementing right away! We help you pick SLOs, identify toil and touch base on Automation for SREs along with few best practices to get you started on your SRE journey.

Computer networks all around the world generate daily records of events occurring in their system. Some events are routine while others indicate potential security breaches or weak network health. Event log files consist of log information that can help organizations reduce their exposure against malware, intruders, damages and legal obligations.

There comes a time in every developer’s life (or daily routine, we’re not here to judge) where they have to go and fix a bug. Back in the days when I used to be a developer, I distinctly remember how each time I would go face to face with a bug, my favorite method to fix it was to add log lines. I mean, why not, right?

A Linux kernel for each developer team, which uses it to bring up target boards. Bespoke, built, issued, and maintained over years by the vendor. Teams that focus on building great apps, rather than figuring out hardware dependencies. Happy developers that bootstrap smart devices in no time. This is what highly productive embedded systems development should look like. Let’s unpack that vision.

In the past 2 years over 25 FSI enterprises have explored CloudHedge to automate modernization of legacy apps. Applications within FSI enterprises are two kinds, the back-office apps and the external consumer apps (end customers or partners/vendors). Most of these applications were built with legacy technologies and are difficult to quickly add/fix features or hot-fixes. Some of the applications even take 3 months before a fix can be released for the end-users.

Over the past few years enterprises and industry leaders have been steadily adopting microservices to drive their business forward. At this point, companies like Amazon, and Google, to name a few, must agree that the microservices style of architecture is much more than a passing trend. Along with the many benefits of updating monolith systems to microservices architecture, there are also new security challenges that organizations need to address.