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By Cortex
Is developer portal a misnomer? Learn how all roles and teams in engineering are making use of IDPs. Cortex|
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By Cortex
Learn how CI/CD tools are enhanced with IDPs—to speed deployments, and increase consistency in software development. Cortex|
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By Cortex
Discover the best cloud migration tools of 2024, key features to consider, and expert tips for choosing the right solution for your business needs. Cortex|
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By Cortex
TLDR: We launched a community marketplace for Cortex Plugins! Share, discover, and implement plugins built to personalize and extend your experience. Learn how, why, and what to try first, below.
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By Ryan Garrett
Migrating a Kubernetes cluster from a self-hosted environment to Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) offers considerable operational benefits—but this transition also brings challenges in reliability, compliance, and observability. By leveraging Cortex Scorecards, teams gain clear insights and structured benchmarks to simplify and improve the migration process. Here’s how Cortex Scorecards can make your EKS migration efficient and resilient.
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By Cortex
Is your DevOps security ready for cyber threats? Embrace these best practices and make security your competitive advantage. DevOps, a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops), has revolutionized the way organizations build, deploy, and maintain software. With the rise of cloud computing, there was a need for faster and more reliable software delivery than traditional software development methodologies allowed. DevOps was the natural evolution.
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By Nikhil Unni
Cortex has received our ISO 27001 certification via Prescient Security. This milestone reinforces our dedication to providing the highest standards of information security for our clients and partners. For engineering leaders and teams who rely on Cortex to streamline development, this certification underscores the trust they can place in us to protect their data at scale.
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By Cortex
Managing IT infrastructure has traditionally been a complex, manual process prone to inefficiencies and human errors. IaC directly addresses these challenges by automating the setup and management of IT infrastructure through code. This approach helps to resolve common infrastructure management problems like lengthy deployment times, configuration drift, and inconsistent configurations.
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By Kate Huff
After an incredible week at IDPCon, we're excited to share one of the major announcements we unveiled during the event: the General Availability (GA) of Cortex Workflows with advanced Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC). One of the most highly requested features for Cortex Workflows, advanced RBAC gives you complete control over who can view, edit, and run workflows, supporting enterprises that deal with sensitive operations.
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By Lauren Craigie
In 2024, there’s no shortage of tools to help engineering teams track team health, productivity, or efficiency. But the problem with those solutions has been two-fold. First, most only track “output” metrics, with no insight into what’s causing teams to ship slower, or resolve fewer incidents. Second, these tools lack flexibility in data inputs and metric definitions, preventing teams from building their own unique measures of excellence.
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By Cortex
The industry is still asking more questions than its answering around #DevEx, Platform Engineering, and even (still!) #DevOps! Hear from Cortex's very own Head of Developer Relations, Justin Reock, get together and talk with other interested minds helps move us more collectively to answers and solutions that can improve the flow, productivity, and ultimately joy of our workforce! Full description.
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By Cortex
98% of engineering leaders reported at least one major consequence of failing to meet production readiness standards. To better understand how teams are addressing new challenges in production readiness, Cortex recently conducted a survey of engineering leaders at companies with more than 500 employees in North America, Europe, and AsiaPac. The survey included questions pertaining to production readiness standards, tools, struggles, and desired future state.
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By Cortex
DevOps solutions have evolved quickly over the last few years. Software catalogs have bloomed beyond service registries and runbooks into comprehensive, centralized engineering sources of truth. With ever-expanding developer tool sets, can teams achieve the flexibility needed to address this fragmentation while continuing to tailor software catalog entries to their unique domains and contexts?
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By Cortex
While we know software projects are never truly “done,” developers will, nevertheless, often face a long list of tasks needed to achieve a certain level of “doneness.” But to what end? And when do they end? When is done—done enough? In this fireside chat-style webinar, Justin Reock - Head of DevRel for Cortex - alongside Alina Anderson - Principal Technical Program Manager at Outreach - will explore an evolved approach to determining production readiness.
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By Cortex
Lauren Craigie (Head of PMM at Cortex) is joined by Justin Reock, Head of Developer Relations at Cortex for a conversation about meausuring developer productivity.
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By Cortex
In 2023 most engineering organizations have some way of measuring productivity. Metrics like story points and cycle time help us assess team-wide impact, while code coverage and commits tell us more about individual contributions. While we know these numbers don’t tell the whole story, we rarely hear about how to find the missing pieces. Or what to do next when we learn the culprit is poor testing practices versus bad design. What’s the plan for improvement? Where does it live, and who owns it?
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Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
Cortex helps engineering teams build better software at scale:
- Align your team and drive accountability: Scorecards enable teams to drive what matters most to them – including service quality, production readiness standards, and migrations.
- A single source of truth for your services: Cortex’s service catalog integrates with the most popular engineering tools, giving teams an easy way to understand everything about their architecture.
- Build a culture of reliability and high performance: Teams enable organizations to drive a sense of ownership and pride as they improve service quality.
- Ensure new services follow best practices from day one: Scaffolder lets developers scaffold a new service in less than five minutes using custom templates crafted by your team.
Cortex gives organizations visibility into the status and quality of their microservices and helps teams drive adoption of best practices so they can deliver higher quality software.