News from the Docker Community All-Hands: Docker Extensions, Docker Desktop for Linux, and more! — I attended the virtual Docker Community 9th birthday all-hands session yesterday, and it was great to see so many familiar faces and nicknames in the chat. I can’t quite believe that it’s been nine years! 🐳 I remember the early birthdays celebrated at real-life meetups in Shoreditch, London, where the…

What is platform engineering and why might it be key to good developer experiences? — Almost every day we hear about another organization building an internal developer platform or developer control plane. We’re not alone in observing this trend in platform engineering; when Humanitec polled 1,850 engineering organizations in 2021, they found that the majority are already building, or plan to build, their own internal…

In the previous two parts of this series on Testing Microservices, you have learned about the concept of request isolation and explored how this enables multiple developers to “share” a single staging environment and still get the fast development/testing feedback loops. You also experienced implementing request isolation within a microservices-based…

In the first article of this Testing Microservices series, I discussed the challenges of testing microservices, specifically in relation to the temptation to create large single-developer environments for use for both (inner loop) fast feedback development and (outer loop) integration testing. I presented the concept of testing using developer “request…

I’ve been keenly following the Lyft article series presenting how they have scaled their development practices as they adopted microservices and cloud native technologies, and so I was super excited when I saw Cindy Sridharan tweet about the release of the latest installment. The entire Medium article was a great…

It’s that time of year again when we get to reflect on another awesome KubeCon NA. Although I couldn’t attend the event in person this year, several (US-based) members of the Ambassador Labs team made the journey to Los Angeles and I followed along with the virtual component of the…

Key takeaways from the most recent Virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon — The Ambassador Labs team have once again returned home from another awesome KubeCon! Of course, this time we didn’t ever leave our homes in the first place, but it was great to be connected virtually to the world wide cloud native community once again over the past week. We had…

Use VS Code and Telepresence connected to a remote Kubernetes cluster to locally debug Node.js microservices — Many organizations using Node.js adopt cloud native development practices with the goal of shipping features faster. The technologies and architectures may change when we move to the cloud, but the fact remains that we all still add the occasional bug to our code. The challenge here is that many of…

Introducing Ambassador Service Catalog: A single pane of glass for all your Kubernetes services & metadata, free for all users — The ability to easily and completely understand your software system is vitally important, particularly when things are on fire at 3 AM and you’ve just been paged. You need to quickly establish your service dependencies, identify who owns each service involved within the Kubernetes cluster, and locate their communication channels.