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Engineering
Business
Cortex
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.
By
Ganesh Datta
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December 1, 2021

Business
Cortex
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.
By
Anish Dhar
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November 18, 2021

Business
SRE
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.
By
Cortex
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November 3, 2021

Business
Cortex
Three steps to a culture of quality
When it comes to working with microservices vs. a monolith, there are some cultural changes that every engineering team should consider. These three tips will help you avoid tricky sources of inefficiency and build better services.
By
Cortex
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October 20, 2021

Cookiecutter
Cortex
Engineering
Standardizing project templates with Cookiecutter
Cookiecutter is a flexible templating engine that allows your team to easily create new services based off standard templates that ensure consistent structure and follow the team's defined best practices.
By
Aditya Bansal
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September 29, 2021

SRE
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.
By
Cortex
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September 15, 2021

Integration
SRE
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.
By
Cortex
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September 9, 2021

SRE
Business
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.
By
Cortex
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August 25, 2021

Business
SRE
A guide to the best SRE tools
Since the emergence of SRE practices twenty years ago, there have been dozens of tools created to help this vital team improve service quality and reliability. In this guide, we’ll take a look at the most important SRE tools, and their most important features.
By
Cortex
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February 3, 2021

Kubernetes
How to visualize your k8s services with ownership, on-call, SLO's, and more
Kubernetes (k8s) is an open-source system for managing containerized applications. Since 2014, K8s has revolutionized modern application building towards containers and microservices.
By
Kathy Huang
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February 3, 2021

Business
Microservices
Engineering
Taming your microservices: The case for a modern catalog
Microservices and service-oriented architectures may be appealing alternatives to monoliths, but they come with their own challenges. Learn how you can tame your microservices with the right processes and tools.
By
Cortex
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June 1, 2020
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