Why You Need a Microservice Catalog

Hey everyone, I'm Ken, one of the founders at OpsLevel.

My co-founder John and I were early employees at PagerDuty (in fact, John was the first hire at PagerDuty). We noticed that companies running large microservice deployments all ended up building internal tooling to help catalog and track the microservices they had in production (e.g., Spotify has System-Z, Shopify has ServicesDB, LinkedIn has Service Scorecard). We saw this as a greater need, so decided to build OpsLevel, a service catalog for everyone else.

In the article above, John talks about the organizational problems that occur when you have lots of microservices and some different ways of addressing them.