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Development
SRE

Making security a first-class concern for developers

Despite security often being an engineer's after-thought, it is increasingly critical to the success of software products. Developers need tools and incentives to write code with security in mind.
By
Cortex
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July 22, 2021
Integration
SRE
Development

Monitoring application stability in Cortex with Bugsnag

Integrating Bugsnag into Cortex can help users monitor application stability through the use of Scorecards.
By
Cortex
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July 8, 2021
Business
Development

The 6 keys to onboarding engineers in a remote-first world

Remote work is here to stay - here's 6 tips you can use to build a great onboarding process and make your engineering team more cohesive and productive as a result.
By
Cortex
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July 1, 2021
Integration
SRE
Development

Monitoring development maturity in Cortex with GitLab

Integrating GitLab into Cortex can help teams import services easily, view Git commits alongside other events in the service timeline, and monitor development maturity using Scorecards.
By
Cortex
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June 24, 2021
Business
SRE

The power of adopting an SRE mindset

With the growth of the SRE role, we're exploring a few key SRE principles that we believe apply strongly across functions and all engineering teams would benefit from adopting.
By
Cortex
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June 17, 2021
Integration
SRE
Development

Monitoring code quality & security in Cortex with SonarQube

Integrating SonarQube into Cortex can help users monitor code quality and security through the use of Scorecards.
By
Cortex
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June 10, 2021
Business
SRE

Prepare for overnight success — with the right load testing approach

We've all dreamed of going viral and seeing usage skyrocket overnight but how do we actually prepare for that moment?
By
Cortex
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June 3, 2021
Integration
SRE
Development

Monitoring service issues in Cortex with Sentry

Integrating Sentry into Cortex can help users view Sentry events alongside other service events and pinpoint service issues.
By
Cortex
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May 27, 2021
Microservice Catalog
SRE

How to drive ownership in microservices

Keeping track of service ownership across all microservices is extremely important but how should teams self-organize to achieve it and where's the best place to start?
By
Cortex
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May 20, 2021
SRE
Development

4 ways to improve your influence as an SRE

On paper, being an SRE may look nothing like being in sales. But in reality, there’s more overlap than you might think. Learn four ways you can improve your influence within the engineering team as a SRE!
By
Cortex
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April 27, 2021
Integration
SRE
Development

Easily map Snyk vulnerabilities to Cortex services

Cortex integrates with Snyk to help map vulnerabilities to services in the catalog and monitor vulnerabilities using Scorecards.
By
Cortex
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March 29, 2021
Microservice Catalog
Development

How to make the move to microservices—with no regrets

The move from a monolith to a microservices can be daunting. Here are five things to keep in mind that we’ve learned from helping teams navigate this transition.
By
Cortex
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March 25, 2021
SRE
Business

The top 3 mistakes companies make with SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs

We see teams fall into a few common traps with SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs. In this article, we’ll define these acronyms and show you how to avoid the mistakes other teams make.
By
Cortex
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March 9, 2021
SRE
Business

Best practices for your team's on-call rotations

Your on-call system is vital to business — you must be able to help customers fix issues as fast as possible. But getting the rotation right is vital to keeping your team happy and engaged.
By
Cortex
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February 13, 2021
Business

Why you need a microservices catalog tool

Microservices offer increased flexibility and scalability but how do you keep track of all your microservices?
By
Cortex
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February 9, 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
Engineering

More sophisticated schemas with advanced GraphQL features

By
David Choi
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January 28, 2021
Microservices
Business

Monoliths vs. Microservices: Differences, Pros & Cons, and Choosing the Right Architecture

Learn the differences between monolithic and microservice architectures, their pros and cons, and the complexities of scaling each.
By
Cortex
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January 28, 2021
SRE

What is SRE?

Site reliability engineering, or SRE, bridges the gap between developers and ops, while improving the overall reliability of your application. In this guide, we’ll look at the core principles of SRE and how it can benefit your organization.
By
Cortex
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January 28, 2021
Engineering
Kubernetes

Beginner's guide to Kubernetes

An introduction to Kubernetes: We'll explore architectural concepts, advantages of using Kubernetes, how to set up Kubernetes, and how to run commands on a local machine using Minikube.
By
Arun Mathew Kurian
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September 23, 2020
Kubernetes
Engineering

Understanding Kubernetes services & ingress networking

This article looks at the concepts of Kubernetes Services and Kubernetes Ingress.
By
Arun Mathew Kurian
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September 23, 2020
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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