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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
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October 4, 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
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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
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September 14, 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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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June 1, 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
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
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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
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April 6, 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
SRE
Understanding Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR)
MTTR can provide insight into how effectively your team responds to incidents and how reliable your software is. Learn more about this valuable metric, how to interpret it, and how to leverage this information to minimize downtime.
By
Cortex
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February 23, 2022
Cookiecutter
Engineering
Cortex
How to write a Cookiecutter template
Cookiecutter has thousands of ready-made templates, but it’s also easy to write your own! In this article, you’ll learn how to create a custom template to standardize just about any part of your development workflow.
By
Aditya Bansal
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February 16, 2022
Business
Cortex
Building Cortex as a remote 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.
By
Ganesh Datta
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February 2, 2022
Engineering
Business
11 best developer productivity tools for 2022: A buyer’s guide
From project management tools to searchable repository apps to integrated database management systems, here are the best productivity tools for developer teams in the coming year, from the experts at Cortex.
By
Cortex
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January 12, 2022
Development
Engineering
Building An RFP For An Internal Developer Portal
An Internal Developer Portal is a core foundation of modern engineering organizations. They generally cover service and resource cataloging, scorecards, integrations, and more. Since IDPs are so critical to your engineering process, selecting your IDP requires rigor and a well-crafted RFP to evaluate your options. Read on to learn more.
By
Cortex
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December 28, 2021
Engineering
Cortex
How we expect the unexpected in Kotlin
`IntegrationValue` 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.
By
Nikhil Unni
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December 15, 2021
Business
Microservices
The 5 stages of the microservice life cycle and the best tools to optimize them
Whether you’re transitioning from a monolithic to microservices architecture or building microservices from scratch, here are 13 tools to consider, for whichever stage of software development you’re at.
By
Cortex
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December 15, 2021
Engineering
Microservices
Testing
An overview of the key microservices testing strategies, types of tests, & the best testing tools
Learn about the importance of different types of testing, from unit testing to contract testing, and the tools to help you, from Pact to Vercel.
By
Cortex
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December 14, 2021
Cloud Migration
Engineering
A guide to cloud migration tools
Cloud migration tools provide support to companies making the shift from on-premises to cloud environments. Read this guide for tool recommendations and tips to pick the tools that best align with your team’s and your application’s needs.
By
Cortex
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December 10, 2021
Cloud Migration
Lift and shift migration strategy
For cloud-ready applications, the lift and shift migration strategy is the most straightforward approach to moving your on-premises applications to the cloud without making any changes to the code. In this article, we discuss the conditions that favor the lift and shift migration strategy and the process of implementing it successfully.
By
Cortex
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December 9, 2021
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
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Engineering
Microservices
Microservices architecture vs. service-oriented architecture (SOA)
What developer teams need to understand about the complexities of microservices, which use small autonomous modules of code and API protocols, and SOA, which has reusable software components with a middleware communication tool.
By
Cortex
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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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