Alisdair Broshar

Today, we reaffirm our commitment to maintaining a free tier. We explain how we intend to sustain it and why we are so committed to providing one. We provide a free tier so users can explore the platform and deploy a hobby project before deploying a production-grade application. This is a story about bare metal, abuse, credit cards, and scale-to-zero.

Deep dive into how we built a global serverless engine with Nomad, Kuma/Envoy and Golang to make multi-region deployments easy.

With Koyeb Metrics, you get a high-level overview of what is happening in your services running on Koyeb. Discover how you can use Koyeb Metrics to understand your services and diagnose performance issues.

Today, we are excited to announce the support of Dockerfile based deployments in general availability. Building and deploying using Dockerfiles offer more flexibility and control over the build process of your applications to let you deploy any kind of applications, frameworks, and runtimes.

Today, we are thrilled to announce workers are generally available on Koyeb! You can now easily deploy workers to process any background jobs with high-end performance in all of our locations.

The latest version of the Koyeb CLI is available and brings many helpful improvements! Discover the reworked error messages, smoother flow for creating and updating services, and how we improved the foundations of our CLI to continue to building the developer experience we envision.

The Koyeb team is growing! Get to know Justin, our technical writer and driving-force behind our documentation and technical guides.

Exciting news: We have a new teammate! Get to know Sebastian, our Customer Success Engineer helping Koyeb users deploy successfully!

Want to learn more about microVMs? Learn all about this lightweight virtualization technology and get all of your microVM questions answered with this short and sweet primer.

Get to know our new team member, Kamil! He is our product designer helping us build an optimal developer experience and make our vision for serverless a reality.

Learn all about gRPC, a high-performance remote procedure call framework, and how it improves communication between services. Discover the benefits of using gRPC, its use cases, how to implement it in various programming languages and deploy gRPC applications on Koyeb.

We have a new team member! Get to know Julia, our talent partner helping us make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality. Learn what she looks for in a candidate, her favorite part of the hiring process, and what she gets up to outside of work.

eBPF lets you run sandboxed programs in a kernel's operating system. Catch up on the heated debate taking place in the service mesh world about how this technology will shape the future of the service mesh and network innovation.

We have a new team member! Get to know Julien, a Software Engineer helping us make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality.

You can now deploy your full-stack applications and APIs in our newest US-East location near Washington, DC. Enjoy high-end performance and all of the platform's built-in features for your apps in the world's largest connectivity hub.

Today, we are super excited to announce the grand opening of our Frankfurt core location in Germany! Frankfurt is the largest connectivity hub in Europe and is an amazing place to run high-performance and low latency applications.

Learn about continuous deployment, what goes into building a strong continuous deployment pipeline, the value it adds, how it differs from continuous delivery, and getting it built into your application development.

Wondering what is a service mesh? Get all of your service mesh questions answered with this short and sweet primer. We take a look at how the two crucial parts of a service mesh, the control plane and the data plane, work together to handle interservice communication.

Discover how we added end-to-end tracing to all requests for Koyeb Apps. We explain how we implemented end-to-end tracing, why we chose Jaeger and Grafana Agent to power our observability stack, and how we overcame the challenges we encountered along the way.

Heroku's free tier changed the way developers, hobbyists, students, and indie hackers deployed applications. Heroku's announcement to sunset their free tier marks the end of an era. We take the time to reflect on the rise and impact of Heroku’s legendary free tier.

Using a managed database saves time and enery when building applications that need persistent storage. While there are numerous benefits to using a managed database, there are serious and long-term considerations to have before choosing one for your app. Our analysis aims to equip you with insights that will help when selecting a managed database for your next project.

Sitting between clients and backend services, API gateways have a number of uses and benefits. Get the lowdown with this short and simple post on API gateways.

Our team is growing! Get to know Nils, our first Full Stack Engineer, and find out how he is helping us make our vision for serverless a reality.

We have a new team member! Get to know Anthony, a Senior Software Engineer helping us make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality.

Koyeb has a new team member! Get to know Diego, our Software Engineering Intern, and find out how he is helping us make our vision for serverless a reality.

While writing a comparison of Kubernetes and Koyeb, we tried to determine how much operating a Kubernetes cluster really costs. This section of our comparison took us hours to write and ended up being so long that we decided to write a dedicated post about it. Kubernetes is a proven technology, but the true cost is often underestimated: this post investigates the actual financial costs of using Kubernetes.

If you're afraid to push to production on a Friday, rely on big-bang deployments, or find recovering from an infrastructure failure is a painful and time-consuming incident, then it is seriously time to talk about continuous deployment best practices. Discover the different go-to continuous deployment strategies and how you can get a continuous deployment pipeline built-in to your application by deploying on the Koyeb Serverless Platform.

The Koyeb team is growing! Get to know our new team member, Nicolas, in this interview. He is a Senior Backend Engineer helping make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality.

We recently wrote about how the Koyeb Serverless Engine runs microVMS to host your Services but we skipped a big subject: Global Networking. This is a deep dive to understand the life of an end user's request for a service hosted on Koyeb. We explore the technology and components that make up our internal architecture by following the journey of a request from an end-user, through Koyeb's Global Edge Network, and to the application running in one of our Core locations.

The Koyeb team is growing! Get to know our new team member, Thomas, in this interview. He is a Senior Backend Engineer helping make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality.

Users have certain expectations for modern web services and applications. Discover how building distributed and global architectures enable you to respond to those standards and and what it really means to deploy globally..

There are several different architecture designs for Web APIs. While REST and RPC remain two popular choices, the arrival of GraphQL and OpenAPI bring new possibilities in the realm of performance, functionality, productivity of your web APIs.

We decided to build our own serverless engine, one that would not be limited by existing implementations. The first version of Koyeb was built on top of Kubernetes and allowed us to quickly build a working cloud platform. After a few months of operating with this version, we decided to move user workloads from Kubernetes to a custom stack based on Nomad, Firecracker, and Kuma.

An API gateway is an API management tool that provides several benefits in a microservice architecture. Learn more about how API gateways work, their typical use cases, and what you should consider before implementing one.

Caching is an effective technique for improving performance and reducing latency speeds for the requests of your web services and apps. CDNs bring your content even closer to end-users. Learn about cache control: what it is, how to configure it, and when to use it.

A service mesh is a dedicated layer of infrastructure that simplifies network management and increases visibility into typically complex microservice architectures. We explore this emerging technology by reviewing its history, purpose-built design, and implementations.

Virtualization optimizes the use of computing resources. Firecracker, a lightweight virtualization technology, is transforming the possibilities of serverless workloads.

Event routers are the middlemen in an event-driven system. RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka are two popular event routers with very different implementations. Learn about their difference to make better decisions for powering modern apps.

Service discovery is the vital component in a microservice architecture that enables communication between services. Discover the influence of DNS on service discovery as well as learn about the different models of service discovery and their real-world implementations.

Sync and async are two popular types of programming models when building event-based architectures, APIs, and handling long-running tasks. This blog posts compares async and sync processing as well as covers when to use them.

Event-driven architectures are a great model to align your business with the real-world. Pairing it with serverless technology is a dream come true for your developers and your business.

When considering a FaaS or CaaS deployment strategy, it is worthwhile to consider the difference in the managed responsiblities between FaaS and CaaS offerings. Learn more about ideal use cases and when to use FaaS or CaaS solutions.

Firecracker is a virtualization technology with that is setting the serverless world ablaze. While there are many perks with Firecracker, here are our top ten reasons why we love Firecracker.

FaaS and CaaS are two popular deployment strategies with their own unique advantages and ideal use cases. Knowing what distinguishes them can help when deciding how to build and deploy your web apps.

Virtualization technology is evolving. Firecracker is an emerging solution that combines the security and isolation of bare metal instances with the density and performance of containers.

The serverless computing era is here. Learn about the implications of going serverless as well as the benefits and existing challenges to implementing this emerging technology.

The serverless computing era is here. Learn about the history and evolution of cloud computing to see why developers and businesses are excited about serverless technology.