Today, we are super excited to share that the Koyeb platform is available for everyone in public preview. If you don't know us yet, Koyeb is the developer platform to build, deploy and scale full-stack applications where your users are. We've been working on the platform since early 2021. The private preview has been intense with over 10,000 developers joining the community and now over 3000 applications running on the platform.

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. Full disclaimer: At Koyeb, we're building a serverless platform and we have a purpose-built orchestration engine.

If you still rely on big-bang deployments or are ever afraid to break your production environment when you push changes, then it is seriously time to invest in building a strong CI/CD pipeline. Pushing changes quickly and often is critical. The best way to mitigate the risks of new releases is to have a strong deployment strategy in place. Continuous deployment automates the deployment process, which lets you deliver new features and improvements to your applications faster than before.

We're kind of crazy about providing the fastest way to deploy applications globally. As you might already know, we're building a serverless platform exactly for this purpose. We recently wrote about how the Koyeb Serverless Engine runs microVMs to host your Services but we skipped a big subject: Global Networking. Global Networking is a big way of saying "How are my requests processed?". A short answer is: requests go through our edge network before reaching your services hosted on our core locations.

Here at Koyeb, we're kind of crazy about providing the fastest way to deploy applications globally. As you might already know, we're building a serverless platform exactly for this purpose. We recently wrote about how the Koyeb Serverless Engine runs microVMs to host your Services but we skipped a big subject: Global Networking. Global Networking is a big way of saying "How are my requests processed?".

Today's users of web and mobile applications and services expect fast and outstanding experiences. Delivering successful web services and applications means meeting these baseline expectations: In this blog post, we dive into why these three goals are vital to modern web applications and services. Then, we will look at how building global and distributed architectures achieve these goals.

Whether you're implementing a microservice architecture that will be scalable and resilient or forward-thinking for interoperability possibilities, APIs provide the essential level of abstraction that enables communication between separate pieces of software. Modifying an API architecture once it is live is no small feat, so taking the time before building one to identify your needs and goals for your API is a worthwhile step that will help you create the API you want.

At Koyeb, our mission is to provide the fastest way to deploy applications globally. We are building a platform allowing developers and businesses to easily run applications, a platform where you don't need to think and deal with the resiliency and scalability of your servers: a serverless platform. Ironically, a serverless platform is actually full of servers. As a cloud service provider, we operate the infrastructure for you and abstract it as much as possible.

As we've discussed in our previous Service Discovery post, decoupled services in a microservice architecture communicate via APIs. But what about the communication between clients outside of your system and the services within your application? How does that communication work? An API gateway is a powerful component in a microservice architecture. Pairing its functionality with a serverless platform like Koyeb saves engineering teams time and maximizes computing resources efficiency.