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Development
Engineering
Building a developer homepage: a one-stop shop for developers
In this comprehensive guide, a Cortex engineer shares the essential steps in building and implementing a developer homepage. Learn how this feature can streamline the developer’s workflow, funneling important and actionable information to your team members.
By
Ishan Mundra
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June 7, 2023
Cortex
Business
A new standard for Internal Developer Portals - Putting our new Series B financing to work
Cortex has raised $35m in Series B financing. New investor IVP led the round alongside Craft Ventures, with participation from existing investors Sequoia, Tiger Global, and YCombinator. Cack Wilhelm of IVP joined our board.
By
Anish Dhar
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May 31, 2023
SRE
Development
Developer productivity and how SREs can track it better
We’ve put together this guide to help SREs boost developer productivity by enhancing collaboration, strengthening infrastructure, and streamlining processes. Read on to discover the importance of strong developer productivity in SRE and insights into achieving a more effective software development life cycle in your organization.
By
Cortex
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May 17, 2023
Development
Improving engineering velocity with internal developer portals
Internal developer portals can improve your engineering velocity and provide valuable insights into your team’s performance. Learn how developer portals can enhance collaboration, streamline processes and optimize workflows, ultimately resulting in better software development and faster delivery times.
By
Cortex
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May 10, 2023
Development
Why Scorecards are critical to your developer portal
Resource Scorecards help to drive the adoption of the best coding standards, improve code quality, and foster innovation. You can enhance visibility, compliance, and decision-making across your company by using Cortex’s Scorecards.
By
Cortex
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April 27, 2023
Security
SRE
It’s RSAC 2023—and it’s time to think about a shift left for security and SRE tools
The annual RSA conference is here, providing a great opportunity to evaluate the latest trends in security and reliability. One area to explore? Developer tools, which promote best practices and compliance early on in the software development lifecycle.
By
Cortex
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April 20, 2023
Security
Different types of code security practices
Developers can protect software applications from unauthorized access, modification, and exploitation by implementing different types of code security practices, such as white-box and black-box testing, static and dynamic application security testing, and software composition analysis. Read on to learn more.
By
Cortex
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April 13, 2023
Kubernetes
Why Cortex and Kubernetes belong together
Kubernetes gives developers autonomy and allows them to work faster, and as a result, standardization can fall by the wayside. Learn how Cortex can help you introduce consistency into your k8s practice, and make sure to visit us at KubeCon this month!
By
Cortex
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April 6, 2023
Engineering
Measuring and promoting engineering productivity
Measuring engineering productivity can be a great way to understand where teams could benefit most from support. Use holistic metrics to measure productivity across your team, and leverage workflow tools to empower teams to be more productive.
By
Cortex
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March 30, 2023
SRE
Cortex
How Cortex can help SRE teams amplify their reach
Site reliability engineers can amplify their reach and influence across teams with Cortex in their toolbox. With the ability to define clear standards and drive progress, Cortex enables everyone at an organization to adopt an SRE mindset. Make sure to visit us at SREcon to learn more about how Cortex can serve as a single source of truth for your SRE team!
By
Cortex
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March 16, 2023
Development
Best practices for DevOps teams
DevOps teams improve efficiency and reliability in development workflows, helping engineers spend less time building processes from scratch and more time programming. These best practices will set your DevOps team in the right direction.
By
Cortex
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March 2, 2023
Development
Engineering
Testing
Developer environments done right
Developer environments can streamline testing, and can encourage experimentation and creativity from engineers and non-engineers alike. In this article, we’ll take a look at the pros and cons of developer environments, and dive into best practices for those who adopt them.
By
Aditya Bansal
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February 23, 2023
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Cortex
Product Updates
Introducing Actions
With the introduction of Actions, the self-serve Cortex internal developer portal has become even more powerful. Now, Cortex users can deploy services, provision resources, and get temporary access keys — among other things — all in one place.
By
Cortex
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February 13, 2023
SRE
Development
SRE Dashboards
SRE dashboards provide a high-level overview of applications, deployments, or code tiers within selected environments. Read on to learn the different types of SRE dashboards, why they're important, and how to integrate this vital tool into your SRE system.
By
Cortex
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January 26, 2023
Cortex
2022 at Cortex: A year in review from our CTO
As we kick off 2023, we're reflecting on all of the incredible opportunities last year brought us. From the advancement of internal developer portals to the expansion of our platform, 2022 was a year of growth. We can’t wait to see what this year brings!
By
Ganesh Datta
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January 5, 2023
Microservices
Development
Manage your APIs from your internal developer portal
The internal developer portal links various parts of your architecture, including microservices, dependencies, and resources. In this article, we'll cover how you can manage your APIs from a dev portal, too.
By
Cortex
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December 15, 2022
Development
Microservices
Getting internal documentation right
With internal documentation, developers can keep track of various processes, making it easier to share knowledge and get new team members up to speed. Learn more about how to get this necessary practice right with your organization.
By
Cortex
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December 13, 2022
Development
Microservices
Taking incident management to the next level with an internal developer portal
A developer portal provides easy access to information about microservices and resources, enabling your teams to respond quickly to unexpected issues. Read on to learn why internal developer portals are an essential part of every incident management strategy.
By
Cortex
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December 8, 2022
Development
Microservices
Best practices for on-call scheduling and management
Properly setting up on-call scheduling systems creates arrangements that ensure developers are available to maintain and improve the microservices infrastructure. In this article, we'll discuss some best practices for scheduling and managing employee on-call systems.
By
Cortex
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December 6, 2022
Cloud Migration
Business
This year's major trends in cloud migration
Recent years have seen a large number of companies pouring an extraordinary amount of resources into moving their applications to the cloud. Read this piece to learn about cloud migration trends in 2022.
By
Cortex
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November 17, 2022
Integration
Cortex
How integrating AWS into Cortex augments visibility into your infrastructure
With the Resource Catalog, Cortex can augment all the vital data you have in AWS, while providing even greater visibility into your infrastructure. Learn more about how to get the most out of AWS by integrating with Cortex, and make sure to stop by our kiosk at re:Invent.
By
Cortex
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November 15, 2022
Security
Microservices
Effective vulnerability management for your microservices
Security vulnerabilities expose software to malicious attacks that compromise data or damage the system, making vulnerability management a crucial part of working with microservices. Read on to learn effective strategies for managing vulnerabilities.
By
Cortex
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November 10, 2022
Business
Engineering
The underappreciated power of technical project managers
Technical project managers play a vital role in engineering organizations, but the manual work of tracking progress can get in the way of their impact. Cortex helps TPMs focus on what really matters.
By
Cortex
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November 3, 2022
Kubernetes
Cortex
How Cortex can help you get the most out of Kubernetes
By providing you with unparalleled visibility into your services and infrastructure components, Cortex can help you get the most out of Kubernetes. The service and resource catalogs backed by the power of scorecarding not only provide deep insights, but allow you to establish and enforce best Kubernetes practices.
By
Cortex
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October 18, 2022
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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
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
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