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DevOps Culture at RisingStack

At RisingStack we’ve been building highly performant web applications in the past 8 years, taking responsibilities for back-end, front-end and ops roles as well. We believe that to create successful products, a company culture that values collaboration and communication between developers and operations teams is necessary. It is not enough to embrace automation and strive for continuous improvement. Having a shared understanding of the goals and objectives within the organization is a must, and that can only happen if everyone is speaking the same language.

We’ve been mostly using Node.js & Kubernetes to achieve our clients goals, but we gained experience with several other web technologies as well. We believe in using the best tools for the job, and can aid our partners in making technology decisions whether we’re working on an already established system or a greenfield project.

Why Develop with Node.js?

It is difficult to hire developers these days, therefore companies need to invest in generalists instead of specialists. Writing the server and client both in JavaScript not only makes it easier to move logic between the frontend and the backend of a web application but makes it easier to train full stack engineers who can handle both ends of the stack.

While Node.js used to be an interesting yet risky new technology, it has grown to be a vastly used, stable and enterprise ready back-end framework over the past. It not only provides a vast ecosystem where developers can find libraries that solve most of their problems, but a clean interface for asynchronous operations as well.

With Node.js, features can be developed faster than in some other languages which is a key to success in the fast moving scene of web applications.

Languages Beyond Node.js

While RisingStack started out as a JavaScript agency, we have grown a lot since then by adopting a strong DevOps culture while we developed our own distributed tracing and APM tool called Trace by RisingStack. This led to the adoption of polyglot development among our engineers.

As we took on DevOps roles for our clients we had to align their services to work with the infrastructures we were tasked to create. This way we had the chance to work on service written in not only Node.js but Ruby, Python, Kotlin, Elixir, Go and written several low-level extensions in Rust as well.

RisingStack in the Node.js World

At RisingStack we’ve been building highly performant web applications for our clients in the past 8 years using Node.js and the vast ecosystem that surrounds it. We’re not just using Node but actively teaching and evangelizing it as well.

RisingStack’s engineering blog is a major resource for Node.js developers, on average 150.000 readers learn from us each month. So far we’ve written more than 200 long-form tutorials and 10 books on the topics of JavaScript, Microservices, Application Performance Monitoring and the Cloud technologies we use. RisingStack has organized more than 40 Node.js & JavaScript meetups so far, and we have organized several conferences around the technologies we use.

RisingStack has been named as one of the leading Node.js companies of the Battery Open-Source Software Index in TechCrunch’s “Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software” analysis.

RisingStack is not only a consulting & development agency, but a product company as well. Between 2015 and 2017 we created a SaaS APM solution called Trace which focused on monitoring Node.js Microservices applications. At its peak, Trace consisted of 50 microservices scattered around various cloud providers which we orchestrated with Kubernetes and related technologies. As our application served around 250K requests / minute and needed to be available all the time, we gained a great amount of experience with Monitoring, Logging, SRE and Infrastructure Engineering in general and built a strong DevOps culture in our team.