Despite billions in AI investment and countless vendor promises, most enterprises are still treating AI agents like glorified copilots rather than autonomous systems. After working with numerous enterprise customers implementing AI agents across various industries, a pattern has emerged: The companies finding real success aren’t the ones building the biggest, most ambitious agents — they’re the ones treating agents as microservices. As of […]
Technical Leadership in Modern Software Infrastructure: Architecting for Performance and Scale
technical leadership is what transforms an average system into an exceptional one. It’s what transforms scattered efforts into a cohesive strategy.
How Microservices Guardrails Help Teams Move Faster
Although a microservices architecture offers agility and scalability, it often introduces new complexity that can become overwhelming if left unchecked.
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability.
Saying Goodbye to Legacy Systems
Are you still using a rotary phone, tube television or Rolodex? Probably not. But if you were, you’d still be using newer technology than what many enterprises still rely on every day to drive mission-critical applications that we use every day when shopping, banking or hundreds of other normal tasks. At least two-thirds of large […]
Best Practices for Modernizing App Modernization
Modernizing legacy systems to embrace a loosely-coupled microservices architecture is the biggest predictor of success for continuous delivery, according to Google Cloud’s 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps report. Studies continue to show that the most elite DevOps performers enjoy more frequent code deployments, faster lead times to deploy, low change failure rates and faster time-to-recovery. […]
Step Aside, Monoliths: Meet the Composable Enterprise
A composable enterprise, defined by Gartner as “an organization that delivers business outcomes and adapts to the pace of business change”, relies on the assembly of interchangeable application building blocks. This architectural overhaul has largely been driven by a demand for more configurable application experiences, and the need to evolve existing application portfolios that are […]
Best of 2021 – Transform Legacy Java Apps to Microservices
As we close out 2021, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the sixteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. Velocity is one of the major tenets of DevOps, and anything that maintains or improves velocity benefits the overall process. Yet, there are still many […]
Driving E-Commerce Transformation with Microservices
It’s no surprise that COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation, but just how fast these changes have occurred is incredible. According to recent research, companies have accelerated their share of digital or digitally enabled products by up to seven years. These changes are impacting every sector in every region around the world, but they are being […]
How to Scale Microservices CI/CD Pipelines
As opposed to a traditional monolith, microservices architecture can theoretically bring many benefits. Microservices decouple software elements, enable reusable components and allow independent development cycles. However, in practice, microservices are prone to many issues. For example, teams accustomed to a traditional monolithic build process may find it difficult to reshape their established practices. Furthermore, as […]