CodeZero’s mission is to help Developers be 10x more productive on Kubernetes, which is why we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve joined the Equinix Metal Partner Ecosystem alongside a huge roster of other Kubernetes and Hybrid-Multi Cloud projects and companies. We’ll admit that we didn’t know a great deal about Equinix until we met the folks at Equinix Metal and learned of Equinix’s 20 year history of creating neutral partner led ecosystems.

Despite tremendous benefits, 47% of the Kubernetes community reports a steep learning curve as a barrier to adoption according to a recent survey of 1000 Developers by Civo.com. So when our team started out on Kubernetes, we went out looking for online resources to learn from and we have been following Viktor Farcic for well over a year now. Viktor is the author of the DevOps Paradox podcast and has a weekly video series called the DevOps Toolkit by Viktor Farcic on YouTube.

In my previous blog post, CodeZero 201, I shared with you Part 2 of a four-part series directed at introducing you to the CodeZero platform and some of its useful tools and features for Kubernetes developers. Part 2 discussed two incredibly handy features for working with Kubernetes called Teleport and Intercept.

Kubernetes continues to lead the container orchestration charge. In fact, according to the latest CNCF survey, 83% of respondents said they were using Kubernetes in production. Kubernetes provides you with key features such as self-healing capabilities, automated rollouts and rollbacks, automated scheduling, scaling, and infrastructure abstraction. This provides a truly extensible, highly available and infrastructure-agnostic environment to deploy all your modern microservices-based applications.

In my previous blog post, CodeZero 101, I shared with you Part 1 of a four-part series directed at introducing you to the CodeZero platform and some of its useful tools and features for Kubernetes developers. While Part 1 focused on laying a technology foundation, this second post gets into CodeZero itself, and introduces two incredibly handy features called Teleport and Intercept. Teleport allows developers to develop and debug their code locally as though they are inside the cluster.

In a series of four articles I’m going to describe the foundational technology behind CodeZero, describe some of its features, and show how it can be of tremendous benefit to any development team or individual deploying their software to Kubernetes. You can read the first article on Medium, where I dive into some of the core concepts that you need to understand to get the most out of CodeZero.

Picking the right performance testing tool can be a challenge. What should you look for and what is important? Performance testing is a phrase many developers have come across at some point, but what is it exactly? In simple terms, performance testing is a software testing practice used to determine stability, responsiveness, scalability, and most important, speed of the application under a given workload.

One of the real joys of entrepreneurship is to see your product take off. When I say “take off”, I mean that moment you get as many thousands of new customers sign-up every single day as it took the company the past two years to acquire. I cannot begin to describe the exhilaration and the stress as you see your cloud infrastructure numbers skyrocket.