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You may have heard of Spotify Backstage, an open platform for building developer portals. In this article, we answer your questions — like what can Backstage do, and who is it for?

Wondering how to go beyond “vanilla” Backstage and get the most out of this open-source developer portal? Learn about the additional features your team can build and customize in this guide.

Cookiecutter is a templating library for creating boilerplate for projects in any programming language. In this article, we dig deeper into Cookiecutter’s capabilities, use cases, and tradeoffs.

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.

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.

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.

Get a detailed comparison of Cortex to other leading software development platforms.