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Backstage

An Overview of Spotify Backstage

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?
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Backstage

Getting started with Spotify Backstage

Backstage acts as a single pane of glass, providing a centralized place for all of your resources. In this article, you’ll learn how to start working with Backstage and install plugins.
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Backstage

The ultimate guide to running Spotify Backstage

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.
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Backstage

Cortex plugin for Backstage

Combine the powerful insight of Cortex with the streamlined development environment of Backstage to most effectively manage your microservices. In this guide, we’ll look at how to set up Cortex’s plugin for Backstage.
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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.
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Cookiecutter

An Overview of Cookiecutter

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.
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Cortex

CQL value propositions

CQL is a powerful tool that enables users to access all of the metadata about all of their services, unlocking insights deep within the Catalog.
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SRE

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.
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Cortex

How an engineering leader uses Cortex

In this guide, we’ll take a look at how Cortex can help engineering leaders set and enforce organization-wide standards, and how our platform can help them shape a broader culture of accountability.
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Cortex

How an SRE uses Cortex

In this guide, we’ll take a look at how Cortex can serve as a single pane of glass for SREs, providing visibility and powerful audits they can leverage to make sure services are meeting standards.
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Cortex

How a developer uses Cortex

In this guide, we’ll take a look at how Cortex can serve as a single pane of glass for developers, providing the visibility they need to improve velocity and adhere to best practices.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Business
Cortex

Compare Cortex to the Competition & Evaluate Alternatives

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