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Productivity
Best Practice

The only way to measure developer productivity without causing a revolt

In this post I attempt to summarize the productivity debate to date, and offer my take on what’s missing—not how we measure productivity, but where.
By
Anish Dhar
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November 21, 2023
Productivity
Best Practice

The pocket guide to engineering metrics

Want to monitor and and improve your engineering team’s performance and align your output with business objectives? Start here.
By
Cortex
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November 20, 2023
Best Practice
Accolades

Cortex awarded 2023 Innovation Leader for Internal Developer Portals

We are proud to announce that Cortex has been recognized as the 2023 best practice leader for North American Internal Developer Portals by leading technology analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. This recognition is based on Cortex's strong performance across technology and commercial metrics, from platform innovation and integration breadth, to customer success and organizational growth.
By
Cortex
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November 16, 2023
open source

Open Source Developer Portals

When engineering teams begin struggling to manage the complexities of their software ecosystem, ownership becomes an issue, and developers feel like they don't know what to focus on next... they may set their sights on an internal developer portal. And if the organization has the resources to tackle it—an open source offering may be an attractive option. In this blog we'll cover the origins of open source developer portals and catalogs, and how to decide what's right for you.
By
Cortex
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November 13, 2023
Use Cases
Feature Highlight

Cortex Initiatives: When scorecards need a deadline

Internal developer portals (IDPs) help drive standards of software quality and maturity, but that doesn’t have to mean a multi-quarter project. Make incremental progress on short- or long-term goals with Cortex Initiatives for Scorecards.
By
Fernando Cremer
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November 9, 2023
Cortex
Development

What is an internal developer portal?

An Internal Developer Portal (IDP) is a central hub for tracking, improving, and building high-quality software. From services and APIs to Kubernetes clusters and data pipelines—IDPs abstract away the complexities of ensuring software security, maturity, production readiness, and more—all using data from your existing tools.
By
Lauren Craigie
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November 2, 2023
Best Practice

How do you measure software health?

Improving the health of your services, APIs, data pipelines, and other software leads to fewer outages and frees developer time for feature work. In the third installment of our Scorecards deep-dive, we're sharing how Cortex makes tracking your software health easy with Scorecards and Initiatives.
By
Jeff Schnitter
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November 1, 2023
SDLC

What is an Internal Developer Platform

The last 5 years of software innovation has brought an explosion of architectural complexity designed to help teams ship faster, and more securely. Platform engineering teams have emerged to abstract away complexity for developers to do their best work, with a new category of tooling designed to do just that. Internal Developer Platforms (and Portals) have lofty value propositions but are still mired in confusion around attributes, owners, and outcomes. In this blog, we seek to provide a little more clarity across all.
By
Cortex
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November 1, 2023
Best Practice

How do you measure operational maturity?

An organization with high operational maturity can build reliable products and services faster. In continuation of our series on top software maturity scorecards, we're taking a closer look at how to measure and improve operational maturity using Cortex scorecards, initiatives, and out of the box integrations.
By
Jeff Schnitter
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October 26, 2023
Best Practice
Security

How do you measure software security maturity?

Consistent security best practices in your SDLC can minimize the risk of an incident while ensuring you have a plan in place to respond in a rapid, and uniform way. In this follow-up from our last post on top software maturity scorecards, we're taking a closer look at Security Scorecards—what they are, how to build them, and how Cortex can help.
By
Jeff Schnitter
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October 19, 2023
Best Practice

Top three scorecards every organization needs for operational efficiency

Scorecards allow you to communicate and make progress on what is important to your organization. Based on what I've seen in my career as a long-time Principal Software Engineer at Workday, and now as a Solutions Architect at Cortex, I've put together a list of the three highest-impact scorecards for increasing operational efficiency.
By
Jeff Schnitter
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October 12, 2023
Best Practice

Internal Developer Platform vs Internal Developer Portal: Solving for a Central System of Record, and Action

Developer Portals and Platforms are gaining popularity amongst engineering leaders that want to reduce cognitive load for developers. But the lines between these categories are starting to blur, creating more confusion in engineering teams about where to start. Here's our take on how the two differ, which should come first, and why none of this will likely matter in another year...
By
Cortex
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October 5, 2023
Best Practice

The CEO Pocket Guide to Internal Developer Portals

Speed, efficiency, and security are top of mind for CEOs. Learn about how an IDP can enable engineering teams to spend more time on work that moves the business forward.
By
Cortex
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September 28, 2023
Best Practice
Engineering

3 new metrics CEOs want from Engineering leaders

Many CEOs are asking for new ways to measure engineering productivity. Learn about three metrics that CEOs now want to see, and how they help with decision-making at the highest level.
By
Cortex
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September 21, 2023
Use Cases

Blocking deployments with your IDP

Scorecards help you define standards for production readiness, but did you know you can also prevent services and resources from being deployed if they don’t match standards for security, reliability, testing, etc?. You just need an IDP like Cortex, and a connection to your favorite CI/CD provider.
By
Cortex
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September 14, 2023
Best Practice

What's going on with the Developer Productivity debate?

Whether and how to measure software developer productivity is a frequent point of contention in the tech community. In this article, we discuss the latest thinking, so you can decide for yourself.
By
Cortex
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September 7, 2023
Product Updates

Introducing Cortex Plugins and Customization

Future-proof your IDP with Cortex’s new plugin framework and UI customization. Bring data from anywhere, and extend the Cortex UI with embeddable JavaScript apps and widgets. Provide users with more context on services, resources, teams, and domains right where they need it most, without requiring them to switch between multiple applications.
By
Lauren Craigie
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August 31, 2023
Best Practice

Establishing a Kubernetes cost management strategy

Many organizations are making the switch to Kubernetes for the promise of greater speed, and reduced costs. But controlling spend requires close attention to what's happening in your services and resources. Cortex helps organizations keep costs in check with Catalogs, Scorecards, and Initiatives.
By
Cortex
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August 16, 2023
Use Cases

What's missing from your incident management workflow

Incident management is hard enough without spending 30 minutes looking for the owner of a given service or resource. But it hasn't always been easy to surface this information. Internal Developer portals are helping companies slash MTTR with better communication paths and fully integrated experiences for devs and support teams.
By
Cortex
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August 8, 2023
Product Updates

Introducing the revamped Team Catalog

We've upgraded the Team catalog experience to add the same level of dimensionality as the Services, Resources, and Domains Catalogs. Now users can add more information about teams like relevant custom data, links, and integrations, and drill down into aggregate team activities and performance.
By
Lauren Craigie
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August 3, 2023
Cloud Migration
Best Practice

Accelerating software and system migrations with Cortex

Updating a software version, moving to Kubernetes, onboarding a new CI/CD tool... some of these decisions could have enormous productivity upside for your team, while others carry significant risk if not executed by a certain deadline. In either event, getting everyone aligned with what to do, when—is never an easy task. Learn what to avoid for speedy migrations, and how Cortex helps.
By
Cortex
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July 20, 2023
Cortex

How to Measure and Improve Platform Maturity and Operational Readiness

Working on software infrastructure for the sake of infrastructure is rarely a good use of time. That probably sounds obvious, but perhaps the next question is less straightforward: what should engineering platform teams do instead?
By
Cortex
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July 14, 2023
Cortex
Product Updates

How Cortex accelerates the process of building your information architecture

This is the second of a two-part blog on things to consider when mapping your information architecture. In the first, we shared some tips on how to approach this process based on best practices from the Cortex Customer Engineering team. In this blog, we’ll share how new and existing features in Cortex accelerate creation of a more resilient information architecture.
By
Lauren Craigie
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July 6, 2023
Development

A New Way to Think About Your IDP Information Architecture

The phrase "information architecture" is often used in website design when strategizing how to share the most relevant information, quickly. But that's not the only application. Learn how the Cortex Customer Engineering team uses UX design principles to help customers design their data model ecosystem.
By
Alex Poe
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June 29, 2023
Cortex

Starting with the Right Foundations - The Cortex Engineering Maturity Curve

The path to engineering excellence has no shortage of tooling for improving developer experience. But what has been missing is an understanding of where to begin. Developed from hundreds of engineering team conversations, the Cortex Engineering Maturity Curve has become a trusted guide for IDP evaluation and onboarding—meeting customers where they’re at for faster time to value.
By
Lauren Craigie
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June 23, 2023
Development
Engineering

Metrics for measuring developer productivity

In modern software engineering, traditional metrics to measure developer productivity cannot accurately measure the quality or efficiency of the development team. So here is an article about the most effective metrics to measure and improve developer productivity.
By
Cortex
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June 15, 2023
Development
Engineering

Building a developer homepage: a one-stop shop for developers

In this comprehensive guide, a Cortex engineer shares the essential steps in building and implementing a developer homepage. Learn how this feature can streamline the developer’s workflow, funneling important and actionable information to your team members.
By
Ishan Mundra
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June 7, 2023
Cortex
Business

A new standard for Internal Developer Portals - Putting our new Series B financing to work

Cortex has raised $35m in Series B financing. New investor IVP led the round alongside Craft Ventures, with participation from existing investors Sequoia, Tiger Global, and YCombinator. Cack Wilhelm of IVP joined our board.
By
Anish Dhar
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May 31, 2023
Security

A comprehensive review of the best vulnerability scanning tools

In this article, we explore the features and capabilities of the top five vulnerability scanning tools so that you can consider all the key factors before selecting one.
By
Cortex
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May 24, 2023
SRE
Development

Developer productivity and how SREs can track it better

We’ve put together this guide to help SREs boost developer productivity by enhancing collaboration, strengthening infrastructure, and streamlining processes. Read on to discover the importance of strong developer productivity in SRE and insights into achieving a more effective software development life cycle in your organization.
By
Cortex
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May 17, 2023
Development

Improving engineering velocity with internal developer portals

Internal developer portals can improve your engineering velocity and provide valuable insights into your team’s performance. Learn how developer portals can enhance collaboration, streamline processes and optimize workflows, ultimately resulting in better software development and faster delivery times.
By
Cortex
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May 10, 2023
Microservices

A guide to Golang microservices

Golang microservices add efficiency, agility, modularity, and scalability to microservices, increasing performance and improving the user experience. Read on to learn more.
By
Cortex
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May 4, 2023
Development

Why Scorecards are critical to your developer portal

Resource Scorecards help to drive the adoption of the best coding standards, improve code quality, and foster innovation. You can enhance visibility, compliance, and decision-making across your company by using Cortex’s Scorecards.
By
Cortex
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April 27, 2023
Security
SRE

It’s RSAC 2023—and it’s time to think about a shift left for security and SRE tools

The annual RSA conference is here, providing a great opportunity to evaluate the latest trends in security and reliability. One area to explore? Developer tools, which promote best practices and compliance early on in the software development lifecycle.
By
Cortex
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April 20, 2023
Security

Different types of code security practices

Developers can protect software applications from unauthorized access, modification, and exploitation by implementing different types of code security practices, such as white-box and black-box testing, static and dynamic application security testing, and software composition analysis. Read on to learn more.
By
Cortex
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April 13, 2023
Kubernetes

Why Cortex and Kubernetes belong together

Kubernetes gives developers autonomy and allows them to work faster, and as a result, standardization can fall by the wayside. Learn how Cortex can help you introduce consistency into your k8s practice, and make sure to visit us at KubeCon this month!
By
Cortex
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April 6, 2023
Engineering

Measuring and promoting engineering productivity

Measuring engineering productivity can be a great way to understand where teams could benefit most from support. Use holistic metrics to measure productivity across your team, and leverage workflow tools to empower teams to be more productive.
By
Cortex
-
March 30, 2023
Engineering

Static analysis tools: Everything you need to know

Static analysis tools examine software’s source code without running the program. Learn how to use these tools to measure code quality during the early stages of development.
By
Cortex
-
March 23, 2023
SRE
Cortex

How Cortex can help SRE teams amplify their reach

Site reliability engineers can amplify their reach and influence across teams with Cortex in their toolbox. With the ability to define clear standards and drive progress, Cortex enables everyone at an organization to adopt an SRE mindset. Make sure to visit us at SREcon to learn more about how Cortex can serve as a single source of truth for your SRE team!
By
Cortex
-
March 16, 2023
Engineering
Testing

Cover all the codebases: A guide to code coverage tools

Code coverage measures the extent to which a software’s source code has been tested and validated. Learn how these tools can help you cover all the codebases.
By
Cortex
-
March 9, 2023
Development

Best practices for DevOps teams

DevOps teams improve efficiency and reliability in development workflows, helping engineers spend less time building processes from scratch and more time programming. These best practices will set your DevOps team in the right direction.
By
Cortex
-
March 2, 2023
Development
Engineering
Testing

Developer environments done right

Developer environments can streamline testing, and can encourage experimentation and creativity from engineers and non-engineers alike. In this article, we’ll take a look at the pros and cons of developer environments, and dive into best practices for those who adopt them.
By
Aditya Bansal
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February 23, 2023
Development
Cloud Migration

How to successfully run a migration

Tech-based businesses benefit from well-executed platform migrations. Learn how to run a successful migration and ensure operational efficiency.
By
Cortex
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February 16, 2023
Cortex
Product Updates

Introducing Actions

With the introduction of Actions, the self-serve Cortex internal developer portal has become even more powerful. Now, Cortex users can deploy services, provision resources, and get temporary access keys — among other things — all in one place.
By
Cortex
-
February 13, 2023
Development
Testing

How to reduce developer time to code

Among many other responsibilities, software development teams must reduce development and testing time while maintaining code quality. Read this article to learn how you can achieve that.
By
Cortex
-
February 9, 2023
SRE
Development

SRE Dashboards

SRE dashboards provide a high-level overview of applications, deployments, or code tiers within selected environments. Read on to learn the different types of SRE dashboards, why they're important, and how to integrate this vital tool into your SRE system.
By
Cortex
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January 26, 2023
Development
Microservice Catalog

How to set up an internal developer portal

An internal developer portal is a single pane of glass that shows specifications, key parameters, and technical information about software development. Read on to learn how to set one up.
By
Cortex
-
January 19, 2023
Development
Business

A guide to successfully onboarding a developer

A good onboarding process should give a new developer the tools they need for success and autonomy. In this guide, we’ll take a look at a few key parts of welcoming new team members into your organization.
By
Cortex
-
January 12, 2023
Cortex

2022 at Cortex: A year in review from our CTO

As we kick off 2023, we're reflecting on all of the incredible opportunities last year brought us. From the advancement of internal developer portals to the expansion of our platform, 2022 was a year of growth. We can’t wait to see what this year brings!
By
Ganesh Datta
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January 5, 2023
Business
Cortex

Trends and updates from 2022, looking forward to 2023

We’re rounding out the year with a look back on community trends and new Cortex features—then taking a peek at our plans for 2023.
By
Cortex
-
December 20, 2022
Microservices
Development

Manage your APIs from your internal developer portal

The internal developer portal links various parts of your architecture, including microservices, dependencies, and resources. In this article, we'll cover how you can manage your APIs from a dev portal, too.
By
Cortex
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December 15, 2022
Development
Microservices

Getting internal documentation right

With internal documentation, developers can keep track of various processes, making it easier to share knowledge and get new team members up to speed. Learn more about how to get this necessary practice right with your organization.
By
Cortex
-
December 13, 2022
Development
Microservices

Taking incident management to the next level with an internal developer portal

A developer portal provides easy access to information about microservices and resources, enabling your teams to respond quickly to unexpected issues. Read on to learn why internal developer portals are an essential part of every incident management strategy.
By
Cortex
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December 8, 2022
Development
Microservices

Best practices for on-call scheduling and management

Properly setting up on-call scheduling systems creates arrangements that ensure developers are available to maintain and improve the microservices infrastructure. In this article, we'll discuss some best practices for scheduling and managing employee on-call systems.
By
Cortex
-
December 6, 2022
Product Updates
Cortex
SRE

Introducing CQL reports

With the introduction of CQL reports, Cortex users can now generate reports based on queries, gaining more visibility into services and resources than ever before.
By
Cortex
-
December 1, 2022
Cortex
Microservices

Make use of your service data with the Query Builder

The Cortex Query Builder helps you run custom queries to filter data on your service catalog. Learn more about it here.
By
Cortex
-
November 29, 2022
Cloud Migration
Business

This year's major trends in cloud migration

Recent years have seen a large number of companies pouring an extraordinary amount of resources into moving their applications to the cloud. Read this piece to learn about cloud migration trends in 2022.
By
Cortex
-
November 17, 2022
Integration
Cortex

How integrating AWS into Cortex augments visibility into your infrastructure

With the Resource Catalog, Cortex can augment all the vital data you have in AWS, while providing even greater visibility into your infrastructure. Learn more about how to get the most out of AWS by integrating with Cortex, and make sure to stop by our kiosk at re:Invent.
By
Cortex
-
November 15, 2022
Security
Microservices

Effective vulnerability management for your microservices

Security vulnerabilities expose software to malicious attacks that compromise data or damage the system, making vulnerability management a crucial part of working with microservices. Read on to learn effective strategies for managing vulnerabilities.
By
Cortex
-
November 10, 2022
Integration
Microservices

Mapping service vulnerabilities with Mend

Integrating Mend into Cortex not only provides insight into service and resource vulnerabilities, but also gives teams the ability to monitor issues and set quality standards with scorecards.
By
Cortex
-
November 8, 2022
Cortex
Integration
Product Updates

Integrating Jira with Cortex Initiatives

We’re excited to announce the release of our Jira integration for Initiatives! Users can now automatically create JIRA issues for Initiatives, letting you stay close to where teams already work.
By
Cortex
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November 7, 2022
Business
Engineering

The underappreciated power of technical project managers

Technical project managers play a vital role in engineering organizations, but the manual work of tracking progress can get in the way of their impact. Cortex helps TPMs focus on what really matters.
By
Cortex
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November 3, 2022
Business
Microservices

How reporting enables informed decision-making

Reporting helps teams make efficient decisions by increasing visibility and providing them with the information required to reduce risks. Read on to know more.
By
Cortex
-
November 1, 2022
Development

Picking the right developer workflow tools for your team

Using the right developer tools that integrate with your team’s workflow reduces time and effort and improves the software quality. Read more about the best tools here.
By
Cortex
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October 27, 2022
Development

Documenting your APIs with developer API portals

You can document your software API in a centralized virtual hub called a developer API portal. Read on to find out more about developer API portals and learn how to build them.
By
Cortex
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October 25, 2022
Cloud Migration

A step-by-step guide to successfully migrating to the cloud

A successful cloud migration requires making critical decisions based on company needs, existing infrastructure, and the kind of migration. Read on for more.
By
Cortex
-
October 20, 2022
Kubernetes
Cortex

How Cortex can help you get the most out of Kubernetes

By providing you with unparalleled visibility into your services and infrastructure components, Cortex can help you get the most out of Kubernetes. The service and resource catalogs backed by the power of scorecarding not only provide deep insights, but allow you to establish and enforce best Kubernetes practices.
By
Cortex
-
October 18, 2022
SRE

SRE Fundamentals: Everything you need to know

Read on to learn more about SRE fundamentals that describe the principles and practices used by software developers to build reliable and scalable applications.
By
Cortex
-
October 13, 2022
Development
Cortex

Building confidence with Cortex Discovery Audit

Cortex’s Discovery Audit feature keeps you informed about your services’ status by working on a schedule to find data across all integrations. Read on to learn how you can use it.
By
Cortex
-
October 11, 2022
Development

Best practices for performing code reviews

A code review is a systematic process of evaluating written code to improve its quality by discovering and correcting bugs. Learn more about coding review best practices here.
By
Cortex
-
October 5, 2022
Integration
Cortex

How Cortex can help you get the most out of Datadog

Cortex is uniquely equipped to augment Datadog’s observability tools, providing deeper insights and greater visibility into your services. Learn more about how Cortex can help you maximize your APM tools, and make sure to stop by our booth at Datadog’s Dash conference.
By
Cortex
-
October 4, 2022
Development
SRE

DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference?

DevOps and SRE roles have some overlap, but they support very distinct parts of the development cycle. We break down their different responsibilities and day-to-day work in this article.
By
Cortex
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September 28, 2022
Cortex
Product Updates
SRE

Scorecards for Resources

With the introduction of the Resource Catalog, Cortex revolutionized the way developers work with their microservice architecture. Now, with Scorecards for resources, you can gain even more insight into your resources and treat them like any other production-grade asset.
By
Cortex
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September 27, 2022
Development

Measure and improve developer productivity

To ensure that the developer team builds quality software fast and efficiently, you need to measure and improve developer productivity. Read on find out how.
By
Cortex
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September 21, 2022
Microservices
Development

Consider these 9 microservices best practices to help you ditch your monolith

We’ve broken down the best strategies to apply before, during, and after microservice migration so that you can sail through the most common operational and engineering challenges.
By
Cortex
-
September 14, 2022
Development

Your guide to measuring and improving code quality

Continuous improvement of code quality through analysis, reviews, and tests is crucial in determining the final quality of the software. Read on to understand how you can measure and improve the quality of your code.
By
Cortex
-
September 7, 2022
Microservices

Improve, enforce, and ensure microservice quality

Learn how to build a lasting foundation of reliability in less time, no matter what stage your services are at today.
By
Cortex
-
August 31, 2022
Microservices
Cortex

Using Team Hierarchies to promote accountability

With Cortex’s Team Hierarchies, leaders can gain powerful insight into how teams are operating. Hierarchies empower leaders to take a people-first approach to service maturity and drive accountability across their organization.
By
Cortex
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August 24, 2022
Development
Business

Why developer experience matters and how you can improve it

A good developer experience improves morale, productivity, and retention. Learn about understanding developer needs and improving the developer experience.
By
Cortex
-
August 17, 2022
Microservices
Development

Building a DORA metrics Scorecard

DORA metrics offer invaluable insight into how your DevOps teams are performing. With the power of Scorecards, you can transform these analytics into action, and set meaningful goals for improving your processes.
By
Cortex
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August 10, 2022
Cortex
Microservices
Product Updates

Introducing the Resource Catalog

The Resource Catalog offers unparalleled visibility into your infrastructure, unlocking the ability for developers to manage and track these assets just like services. By promoting ownership and accountability, the Resource Catalog revolutionizes the way we see service architecture.
By
Cortex
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July 27, 2022
SRE
Microservices

Making SRE metrics work for your team

SRE metrics are standards that help you track important workflows and measure your organization’s performance, efficiency, and reliability. Keeping microservices architecture up and running requires constantly measuring its health using SRE metrics. To learn more about using SRE metrics, read on.
By
Cortex
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July 20, 2022
Cortex
Microservices

Structuring your templates with Cortex’s Scaffolder

Cortex’s Scaffolder tool helps you build and modify services using a consistent template. This can remove redundancies and keep different types of code standardized based on that template. Learn more about structuring your templates with Cortex’s Scaffolder here.
By
Cortex
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July 13, 2022
SRE
Microservices

Building reliable services: A guide to setting SLOs

Setting relevant SLOs is the key to improving service reliability for your users. Read this guide to understand what service level objectives are and how you can set effective ones with your team.
By
Cortex
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July 6, 2022
Microservices
Business

It’s the end of Q2 — Do you know how your microservices are doing?

With a new quarter coming up, this is the perfect time to look back at how your microservices have performed and plan improvements. Here are some ways to improve your planning process for Q3 and beyond.
By
Cortex
-
June 29, 2022
Microservices
Testing

Testing your microservices architecture with Shift Left

Since your team is often making changes to software, it is inefficient to test your software only before production. Microservices architecture should integrate shift left testing from the beginning of the development cycle to detect software bugs early on and proactively plan tangible processes to resolve issues. Read on to learn more.
By
Cortex
-
June 22, 2022
Microservices

“Keep calm and use the runbook” – Why runbooks are the key to handling any situation effectively

The key to building reliable services is proper preparation. See here how runbooks can help you do just that, by ensuring the right knowledge is readily available when you need it most.
By
Cortex
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June 15, 2022
Engineering
Cloud Migration

The 6 Rs of cloud migration

Depending on your business’s scale, your application’s use cases, and available resources, you can choose from the 6 Rs of cloud migration. This article provides information regarding the suitability and benefits of these migration strategies helping you decide which cloud migration approach best fits your needs.
By
Cortex
-
June 8, 2022
Microservices
Testing

Deployment strategies for testing microservices

Microservices need to be continuously tested against end-users to adapt the application to changing preferences and requests. Read on to learn about how development teams need to plan robust deployment strategies before testing microservices.
By
Cortex
-
June 1, 2022
Engineering
Cortex

How we cut our Postgres RPS by 50%

Over the last year, we’ve been focusing on scaling our infrastructure to handle our growing number of customers and introducing key process changes to help manage complexity.
By
Aditya Bansal
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May 25, 2022
Microservices
Cloud Migration

Cloud migration strategies for microservices

With a significant number of companies moving their digital infrastructure to the cloud, a good cloud migration strategy could be the difference between functional applications and disrupted workflow. Read on to learn how to choose the best strategy specific to your company’s cloud migration needs
By
Cortex
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May 18, 2022
Microservices
Cortex
Business

How service ownership improves shipping velocity

At DockerCon 2022, we had a conversation with engineering leads from two successful platforms about how they manage microservices, reliability, and more. Check out the highlights here!
By
Cortex
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May 11, 2022
Engineering
Microservices

Microservices architecture and design patterns

When building a microservices application, you have many options for how you approach inter-service communication, data management, and more. Here are some common design patterns for microservices architectures.
By
Cortex
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May 4, 2022
Business
Cortex

The story behind our name

We’ve always been committed to giving engineering teams a central way to organize and understand their architecture, but did you know we weren’t initially called Cortex? Here’s how we found our name & why it’s the perfect fit for us.
By
Anish Dhar
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April 27, 2022
Engineering
Microservices
Testing

How to test microservices

Continuously testing microservices at different stages of production and development helps you see how each microservice works individually and how it integrates with other services in the network. Learn more about how you can use different strategies to test microservices architecture.
By
Cortex
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April 20, 2022
Microservices
Engineering

Best practices for logging microservices

Logging is an essential debugging and analytics tool for any software system. Here’s how to approach logging for microservices, which come with unique challenges given their distributed nature.
By
Cortex
-
April 13, 2022
Microservices
Engineering
Security

Securing your microservices architecture

Implementing effective security protocols as an ongoing process in the software lifecycle is critical to protect against attacks. Here are some of the best practices to implement a comprehensive security strategy for microservices.
By
Cortex
-
April 6, 2022
Java
Engineering
Microservices

Creating Java Spring Boot microservices

Learn about creating Spring Boot microservices using Spring Initializr, JHipster, or through custom templating.
By
Cortex
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March 30, 2022
Engineering
Kubernetes
Microservices

Kubernetes service discovery

Kubernetes is a pioneering open-source system that automates the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. In this post, we'll go over a few fundamentals of containerized applications and how service discovery works in Kubernetes.
By
Cortex
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March 23, 2022
Engineering
Java
Microservices

A guide to Java microservice frameworks

With so many Java frameworks out there, how do you know which one is the best fit for your microservice architecture? Learn about a few key frameworks and primary considerations before you adopt one.
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March 16, 2022
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