As part of our digital transformation at Equinix, we provide web portal interfaces for our customer interactions with our products and services. As with many modern platform service providers, we now have re-built our products with modern microservice architectures running as workloads on resilient Kubernetes infrastructures. These microservices expose their portion of the application functionality as individual endpoints (think URLs), providing application programming interface (API) interactions. This architecture allows for more agile development, where different application components can be developed and improved by different teams much faster and more reliably, using continuous integration and continuous development lifecycle (CI/CD) principles…

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