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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
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Cortex
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May 18, 2022

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.
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Cortex
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April 20, 2022

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.
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Cortex
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March 23, 2022

Building Cortex as a remote-first company
Remote work presents unique challenges for innovation, execution and iteration – all of which are key to building a product that people love. These challenges are even more pronounced when building a company from scratch! Here’s how we navigated building a remote-first company at Cortex.
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Ganesh Datta
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February 2, 2022

How we expect the unexpected in Kotlin
`IntegrationValue<T>` is a type that can return any value but encapsulates all possible errors from 3rd party integrations. It allows us to handle expected and unexpected exceptions and errors gracefully and surface clean error messages to our customers when we cannot retry or handle them.
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Nikhil Unni
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December 15, 2021

How we built a robust demo environment for our sales team
With the help of the Service Locator pattern in our React app, we created a container specifically for our demo environment that can pre-load specific API calls, giving sales reps a deterministic, stable, and reliable demo environment.
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Ganesh Datta
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December 1, 2021

Announcing Cortex’s $15 Million Series A
Today, Cortex is announcing a huge milestone - our Series A round. The $15 million in funding, co-led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital, will help drive our mission to transform how engineering teams build and deliver great software.
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Anish Dhar
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November 18, 2021

The hidden costs of outages and quick first steps to preventing them
We all know that downtime is a problem, but how do you make that tangible for leadership? Here’s some data that quantifies the cost of outages, and tips for getting started early on preventing this worst-case scenario.
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Cortex
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November 3, 2021

How SREs can drive team adoption of the 4 golden signals
As an SRE, you probably already realize that the four golden signals—latency, traffic, errors, and saturation—are key for monitoring your system. The hard part is making sure your team adopts these signals and uses them to drive actual progress and prioritization. Here’s some tips for putting these numbers into action.
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Cortex
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September 15, 2021

Instant service information using Cortex & Slack
By using Cortex and Slack together, you’ll always be up to date with the latest org-wide initiatives, be able to get quick information about services within Cortex, and know who to reach out when Cortex doesn’t have what you’re looking for.
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Cortex
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September 9, 2021

How to build a modernization strategy
Modernizing your company's infrastructure is critical to delivering high quality and secure software at lower costs. But undertaking modernization projects can be incredibly daunting - here we layout tips and strategies you can use to approach modernization at your company.
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Cortex
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August 25, 2021