May 10th, 2023
Meet Kamil, Product Designer optimizing DX
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.
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May 10th, 2023
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.
April 27th, 2023
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.
April 24th, 2023
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.
April 20th, 2023
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.
April 4th, 2023
We have a new team member! Get to know Julien, a Software Engineer helping us make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality.
December 15th, 2022
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.
December 14th, 2022
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.
October 28th, 2022
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.
October 24th, 2022
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.
September 28th, 2022
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.
August 31st, 2022
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.
August 11th, 2022
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.
August 2nd, 2022
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.
July 25th, 2022
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.
July 18th, 2022
We have a new team member! Get to know Anthony, a Senior Software Engineer helping us make Koyeb's vision for serverless a reality.
July 5th, 2022
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.
December 21st, 2021
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.
November 9th, 2021
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.
October 20th, 2021
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.
October 19th, 2021
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.
October 8th, 2021
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.
September 16th, 2021
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..
August 10th, 2021
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.
July 7th, 2021
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.
May 27th, 2021
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.
May 18th, 2021
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.
April 29th, 2021
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.
April 22nd, 2021
Virtualization optimizes the use of computing resources. Firecracker, a lightweight virtualization technology, is transforming the possibilities of serverless workloads.
March 31st, 2021
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.
March 23rd, 2021
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.
March 15th, 2021
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.
March 4th, 2021
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.
February 25th, 2021
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.
February 23rd, 2021
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.
February 8th, 2021
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.
January 27th, 2021
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.
January 18th, 2021
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.
January 7th, 2021
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.