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Engineering Excellence vs. Developer Experience, and Why You Need Both to Thrive

Feb 12, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
The terms engineering excellence and developer experience are often used in ways that make them seem interchangeable. While these concepts do overlap, it’s important to understand that developer experience (DX) is just one subset of engineering excellence, not a one-to-one match. Below, we define engineering excellence, clarify what developer experience entails, and explore how improving developer experience supports—but does not replace—the broader objectives of engineering excellence.
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Turning the 2024 State of DevOps into your 2025 Playbook for DevOps Excellence

Jan 30, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) report is an annual study that provides data-driven insights into what drives high performance in technology organizations. DORA originated as a team at Google, focused on increasing velocity, performance, and collaboration in DevOps. Drawing on feedback from over 39,000 professionals globally, the 2024 report categorizes the practices and metrics that define high-performing teams in two higher-level groups.
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Survey: What's Slowing Progress Towards Engineering OKRs?

Jan 29, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
To ensure progress towards this ideal state, OKRs (objectives and key results) are often used to create tangible goalposts along the way. For engineering teams, these objectives often take two forms: But all of these programs involve moving from one state to another. As simple as that sounds, the act of doing so, successfully, has become incredibly challenging. Just understanding current state requires a ton of manual effort: Who owns what? What needs to change? Who’s going to do it?
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Why Measuring Both Inputs and Outputs is Critical for Engineering Excellence

Jan 28, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Engineering teams are under constant pressure to deliver software that aligns with top line business goals: Unlocking Innovation, Reducing Costs, and Improving Customer Experiences. But how do organizations ensure their engineering practices actually move the needle? The answer lies in measuring both inputs (the practices teams adopt) and outputs (the results they achieve).
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Microservices Aren't the Goal: What we Check Before Splitting a Monolith

Microservices Aren't the Goal: What we Check Before Splitting a Monolith

Jan 20, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Most "we should move to microservices" conversations start as architecture debates, but they're almost always driven by operational pain. Releases feel fragile. Incidents take longer to diagnose. Scaling one busy area means scaling everything. Coordination costs grow faster than the product. Over time, we've learned to treat microservices as a tool that you pick to remove a specific constraint, not as a badge of maturity. The most useful starting question is blunt: what outcome is the current architecture blocking today, and is distribution really the cheapest way to unlock it?
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