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April 2023

How to Use Ephemeral Environments for End-to-End Testing

End-to-end testing is a critical process in software development that ensures the reliability and functionality of an application. However, setting up and managing end-to-end testing workflows can be challenging, often requiring complex infrastructure and time-consuming maintenance. This is where ephemeral environments come in.

How Bhuma Achieved Testing Automation in No Time with Qovery

We talked with Juan Carlos, the Head of Software Architects at Bhuma, a software company that strives to be the go-to platform for frontend operational analytics. They provide businesses with cutting-edge tools to easily manage and visualize their data but when the team began to transition to EKS, they faced the challenge of automating testing and integration for containerized platforms. In this article, discover how Qovery helped Bhuma overcome this challenge effortlessly.

Why You Should Use Docker Over Buildpacks

Buildpacks and Docker are popular containerizations and modern software development tools that package and deploy applications that provide portable and reproducible containers. While providing similar end results, they have different approaches and use cases. In this article, I will expose our experience at Qovery dealing with Buildpacks and why we strongly advise you to move away from it as soon as your project gets any more serious.

State of Preview Environments Report 2023

The State of Preview Environments Report is a survey conducted by Qovery gathering feedback from 1,289 seasoned software engineers with diverse experiences, ranging from growing to enterprise-level organizations. This report aims to get a pulse on the perception and adoption of Preview Environments among the software engineering community.

New Logs Interface: Enhancing Debugging and Deployment Experience

I am excited to announce the release of our new logs interface inside Qovery. This feature is a crucial milestone in our journey to improve the debugging experience and provide better insights into deployment failures. As we are just about releasing parallel deployment, we revamped the interface to accommodate the concept of Deployment Pipeline, ensuring a seamless experience when deploying your applications.

How to Successfully Implement an Environment as a Service (EaaS) Solution in Your Software Development Workflow

In today's fast-paced and competitive software development landscape, the ability to quickly and efficiently manage development environments is critical to success. This is where Environment as a Service (EaaS) comes in. EaaS is a cloud-based solution that lets developers quickly establish and manage development environments. EaaS simplifies infrastructure management, helping developers work faster and create better apps.

From Static to Ephemeral Environments: How Flat Significantly Increase Development Velocity with Qovery

Learn how Qovery helped Flat Mx, a proptech company in Mexico, speed their release cycle and scale their infrastructure efficiently. Initially launched three years ago, Flat Mx combines technology with real estate data and expertise to optimize the property valuation process and automate it. The engineering team at Flat Mx was facing challenges with their monolithic application and needed a more efficient solution for their cloud needs.

What is a Self-Service Infrastructure Platform?

In today's fast-paced technology landscape, companies are in a constant race to innovate and deploy applications quickly. Ensuring that development and operations teams can collaborate efficiently is critical to achieving this goal. Self-service infrastructure platforms have emerged as a vital solution to this challenge. In this article, we will explore the concept of self-service infrastructure platforms, the problems they address, and their benefits for engineering and DevOps teams.

The Top 10 Products From AWS Summit Paris 2023

The AWS Summit Paris 2023 brought together some of the world's top companies and tech experts to showcase the latest innovations and products in the tech industry. With so many impressive companies in attendance, it can be difficult to narrow down the top products on display but after careful consideration, we've compiled a list of the top 10 products from the event.

Understanding Qovery Pricing: Transparent and Flexible Billing

At Qovery, we understand the importance of transparency when it comes to pricing, especially for our customers who rely on our services to power their applications. One of the most frequently asked questions we receive is about our billing system, the meaning of "Active Developers," and how we adjust pricing based on usage.

10 Best Practices for Optimizing Kubernetes on AWS

As more businesses adopt Kubernetes to manage containerized applications, optimizing Kubernetes on AWS has become a crucial aspect of managing and deploying applications in the cloud. Kubernetes on AWS provides many benefits, including scalability, high availability, and flexibility, but it also poses several challenges that require careful consideration and planning. Today, we will discuss the top 10 best practices for optimizing Kubernetes on AWS, along with the common challenges that come with it.