Transitioning to microservices has many advantages for teams building large applications that must accelerate the pace of innovation, deployments and time to market. It also provides them the opportunity to secure their applications and services better than they did with monolithic codebases.

This article was written by Ivan Rylach, a staff software engineer from Checkr. Checkr is the leading technology company in the background check industry. The company was moving to a services-oriented architecture. To scale this process, we switched to a declarative configuration for API management. As the staff software engineer at Checkr, I faced more scenarios where declarative configuration was not suitable by design. This post, and the video below, will explain these cases.

In 2020, the acceleration of digital transformation quickly emerged as a top priority for many organizations as they grappled with the business impacts of an unexpected pandemic and raced to adapt to a new reality. As businesses begin to pivot out of the shadows of COVID-19 in 2021, what will this new reality look like? What new technology trends will emerge? Our executives shared their personal predictions for the year ahead: 1. The End User Era: Architects Will Rise in IT Purchase Power