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Paul Burt • 14th January 2025

The what and why of ephemeral preview environments on Kubernetes

This post is an overview of preview environments. It covers why they’re crucial for modern development teams, what makes them challenging to implement (particularly for backend and full-stack apps), and how Northflank simplifies the entire process.

Paul Burt • 3rd January 2025

Case Study: How Catalog Built a Scalable Streaming Music Platform with Northflank

The challenge? Building a highly flexible, developer-friendly backend that could support complex workloads. Their services relied on CPU-intensive transcoding, high-bandwidth streaming (HLS), and multi-node read-write (RWX) volumes.

Paul Burt • 2nd December 2024

Platform Eng Day Keynote: Make Workloads, not Infrastructure

You’ve built a platform, are currently building one, or recently re-platformed.

Emma Genesen, Lavrenti Frobeen • 31st August 2023

How to Build a Scalable Software Architecture Part 1: Monolith vs. Microservices

In this blog, we’ll discuss the nuances of the monolith vs. microservices debate, and dig into how we at Northflank applied these principles to the software architecture for our developer platform.

Software Architecture