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Technology Insights
GraphQL: Escape from the Monolith
As SaaS codebases have grown larger, engineering teams have faced challenges building, testing, and deploying new features. One answer to this problem...By Chris Reid / AppDirect / April 3, 2019
Company & Culture
AppDirect Engineering Interns: Shaping the Future of the Digital Economy
Interesting software engineering challenges are the foundation of a strong engineering team—and a technology company as a whole. They give engineers t...By Gretchen Dukowitz / AppDirect / February 22, 2019
Technology Insights
Stash: A Fast and Scalable Data Store
Why Build a Data Store? When your organization’s long-term goal includes “indexing content from all over the Internet,” you know that fun (and challen...By Adam Demjen / AppDirect / February 19, 2019
Technology Insights
Evolution of the AppDirect Kubernetes Network Infrastructure
At AppDirect, we embraced Kubernetes—an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications&mdas...By Alexandre Gervais / AppDirect / June 7, 2018
Technology Insights
Introduction to the Workflow Microservice
At the beginning of this year, the Engineering team at AppDirect rolled out the first deployment of the Workflow Service (WFS) in production for a lar...By Pascal Chouinard / AppDirect / April 4, 2018
Company & Culture
Base Camp
I joined AppDirect as Vice President of Engineering at the beginning of June. Friday was my 28th day on the job...By Ron Pragides / AppDirect / July 17, 2017