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Internal Developer Platform vs Internal Developer Portal: Solving for a Central System of Record, and Action

Oct 5, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
What support do developers need at large enterprises to be productive? We often fall into the trap of evaluating coders on output, maybe even innate talent. We think that the best way to build secure and efficient software is to hire 10X developers, and get out of their way. But even if the individuals have massive intellectual firepower, operational work grows like entropy in the system.
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The CEO Pocket Guide to Internal Developer Portals

Sep 28, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
In the current macroeconomic climate, it’s more important than ever for executive teams and CEOs to make the most of their resources. Organizations are expected to continually deliver innovative products and services in a rapidly changing environment, often with reduced engineering budgets. 75% of tech leaders fear displacement from competitors beating them to market, so speed and efficiency are top of mind.
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Webinar: Best Practices for Measuring and Growing Developer Productivity

Sep 25, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
Knowing how productive your development team is is essential to planning your software delivery timeline and releasing high-quality software to the end-user. However, there exist several misconceptions about what developer productivity is and how it can be increased. Developer productivity is not a single metric you can measure, like the number of pull requests each developer in the team is making in a given development time. Instead, it comprises a variety of interconnected aspects that can be measured by different metrics and improved over time.
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Webinar: Still using spreadsheets to track your services? You need a developer portal.

Sep 25, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
Back by popular demand, Ganesh Datta will cover Developer Portals and why users look to Cortex for running efficient engineering teams. Developer portals have become increasingly important to run an efficient engineering team especially as the number of services or engineers scale. Learn more about why companies adopt developer portals, how to maximize their impact, and how they can help your team reduce the organizational complexity that comes with running a service oriented architecture.
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3 new metrics CEOs want from Engineering leaders

Sep 20, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
Engineering leaders are accountable to shipping quality products on time and within budget. But a CEO's historical understanding of engineering operations has been pretty opaque: ships on time, or doesn't. And although DORA metrics are a good place to start, they don’t offer the complete picture needed for CEOs. With new tooling to support greater engineering efficiency, CEOs are learning that it's possible to get a richer picture of engineering productivity, quality, and velocity.
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Blocking deployments with your IDP

Sep 14, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
Most Cortex customers begin their journey by populating their service and resource Catalogs, creating their first few Scorecards, and setting up any time-sensitive Initiatives. These features help bring visibility and accountability to internally developed software, revealing consistency issues and enabling teams to act quickly to resolve.
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What's going on with the Developer Productivity debate?

Sep 7, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
Every so often, somebody in the tech industry proposes a new way to quantify software engineers’ productivity. Most recently, a leading consulting firm published a report that has reignited a recurring debate—is it even possible to effectively measure developer productivity, and if so, how? Whereas functions like sales and support have had rigorous metrics for years, software engineering has long been the exception.
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