Software is our Craft.™
As a custom software development company, 8th Light builds software—from mobile to microservices—that is beautiful, durable, and shows pride in workmanship.
As a custom software development company, 8th Light builds software—from mobile to microservices—that is beautiful, durable, and shows pride in workmanship.
We work alongside your team and inside your code to bring incremental change from the inside out.
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We design simple, memorable, human interactions.
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Equip your teams with the skills needed to lead the development of your highest-impact projects.
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We will build, launch, and maintain your product at the pace of your business.
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Microservices are a big deal. They can give us some pretty big wins for our architectures and teams, but microservices have plenty of costs too. As microservices, serverless, and other distributed systems architectures become even more prevalent in the industry, it’s critical that we internalize their problems and strategies for solving them. In this article, we’ll look at one example of the many tricky issues that network boundaries can introduce: timeouts.
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8th Light introduces the Weirich Institute of Software, a rigorous continuing education program designed for software professionals.
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