Effx, the San Francisco startup has emerged from stealth mode, raising an impressive $3.9M seed round to fuel the expansion of its team and platform features. The Effx platform tracks and monitors services and dependencies, via a single pane of
Rafay Systems has raised $8M in Series A and is now generally available to the public. The company provides lifecycle management for containerized applications. Lifecycle management is the process of managing the deployment and ongoing operations of containerized apps running
The Popularity of Microservices Microservices has become a highly popular way to build software, as opposed to the traditional monolithic, tiered approach. Problems that arise by separating the design of software into different modules built by separate teams then combined
During the build of a new web-based service, one of the first questions to arise is, “How will I talk to it?” There are many options to consider. The two we will focus on here are REST and gRPC. While
Sunnyvale, California-based Rafay Systems has recently launched as a “CDN for Microservices.” At its core, the Rafay platform is a global edge orchestration service that automates the placement and ongoing operations of latency and location-sensitive workloads closer to users and
Service discovery is about locating the network location of a service provider. Developer Jason Xu likens it to changing your phone number without telling your friend, then losing contact. The same thing applies to services within a microservices architecture program.
The Context Before we focus on distributed tracing, let’s pull back to look at microservices as a whole. For greenfield applications, microservices have become a default choice. They offer the kind of decoupling necessary to allow developers to fully transform
The idea of a “service mesh” has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years and the number of alternatives available has risen. There are four open-source products available today: (i) Linkerd (sponsored by Buoyant). It was built on
Algorithmia is an AI startup that offers access to a catalog of 3,500 algorithms, functions and machine-learning models in a widespread bid to change how algorithms are used. The startup has received funding from Google; Anna Patterson, VP of Engineering
Stateful vs. Stateless – An Overview The key difference between stateful and stateless applications is that stateless applications don’t “store” data whereas stateful applications require backing storage. Stateful applications like the Cassandra, MongoDB and mySQL databases all require some type
Netlify is a next-gen startup, which bills itself as “an all-in-one workflow that combines global deployment, continuous integration and HTTPS”. The co-founders of Netlify, Chris Bach and Mathias Billmann, set up the company in order to simplify the deployment process
Earlier this month, NGINX released the latest version of its flagship software, NGINX Plus R15, and announced the upcoming launches of NGINX Unit 1.0 and NGINX Controller R1. The NGINX application platform powers load balancers, microservices and API gateways. These
Avi Networks, the Santa Clara, CA-headquartered software-only application delivery platform, recently launched new features that turn its next-generation technology into a fully-fledged application delivery platform. Its latest features employ machine learning and augment Avi’s integration with the Ansible and Terraform
