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By Cortex - January 12, 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 - January 5, 2023 Business Cortex TRENDS AND UPDATES FROM 2022, LOOKING FORWARD TO 2023 We’re rounding out the year with a look back on community trends and new Cortex features—then taking a peek at our plans for 2023. By Cortex - December 20, 2022 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - December 6, 2022 Product Updates Cortex SRE INTRODUCING CQL REPORTS With the introduction of CQL reports, Cortex users can now generate reports based on queries, gaining more visibility into services and resources than ever before. By Cortex - December 1, 2022 Cortex Microservices MAKE USE OF YOUR SERVICE DATA WITH THE QUERY BUILDER The Cortex Query Builder helps you run custom queries to filter data on your service catalog. Learn more about it here. By Cortex - November 29, 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 - 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 - 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 - November 10, 2022 Integration Microservices MAPPING SERVICE VULNERABILITIES WITH MEND Integrating Mend into Cortex not only provides insight into service and resource vulnerabilities, but also gives teams the ability to monitor issues and set quality standards with scorecards. By Cortex - November 8, 2022 Cortex Integration Product Updates INTEGRATING JIRA WITH CORTEX INITIATIVES We’re excited to announce the release of our Jira integration for Initiatives! Users can now automatically create JIRA issues for Initiatives, letting you stay close to where teams already work. By Cortex - November 7, 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 - November 3, 2022 Business Microservices HOW REPORTING ENABLES INFORMED DECISION-MAKING Reporting helps teams make efficient decisions by increasing visibility and providing them with the information required to reduce risks. Read on to know more. By Cortex - November 1, 2022 Development PICKING THE RIGHT DEVELOPER WORKFLOW TOOLS FOR YOUR TEAM Using the right developer tools that integrate with your team’s workflow reduces time and effort and improves the software quality. Read more about the best tools here. By Cortex - October 27, 2022 Development DOCUMENTING YOUR APIS WITH DEVELOPER API PORTALS You can document your software API in a centralized virtual hub called a developer API portal. Read on to find out more about developer API portals and learn how to build them. By Cortex - October 25, 2022 Cloud Migration A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO SUCCESSFULLY MIGRATING TO THE CLOUD A successful cloud migration requires making critical decisions based on company needs, existing infrastructure, and the kind of migration. Read on for more. By Cortex - October 20, 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 - October 18, 2022 SRE SRE FUNDAMENTALS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW Read on to learn more about SRE fundamentals that describe the principles and practices used by software developers to build reliable and scalable applications. By Cortex - October 13, 2022 Development Cortex BUILDING CONFIDENCE WITH CORTEX DISCOVERY AUDIT Cortex’s Discovery Audit feature keeps you informed about your services’ status by working on a schedule to find data across all integrations. Read on to learn how you can use it. By Cortex - October 11, 2022 Development BEST PRACTICES FOR PERFORMING CODE REVIEWS A code review is a systematic process of evaluating written code to improve its quality by discovering and correcting bugs. Learn more about coding review best practices here. By Cortex - October 5, 2022 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 - October 4, 2022 Development SRE DEVOPS VS. SRE: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? DevOps and SRE roles have some overlap, but they support very distinct parts of the development cycle. We break down their different responsibilities and day-to-day work in this article. By Cortex - September 28, 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 - September 27, 2022 Development MEASURE AND IMPROVE DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY To ensure that the developer team builds quality software fast and efficiently, you need to measure and improve developer productivity. Read on find out how. By Cortex - September 21, 2022 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 - September 14, 2022 Development YOUR GUIDE TO MEASURING AND IMPROVING CODE QUALITY Continuous improvement of code quality through analysis, reviews, and tests is crucial in determining the final quality of the software. Read on to understand how you can measure and improve the quality of your code. By Cortex - September 7, 2022 Microservices IMPROVE, ENFORCE, AND ENSURE MICROSERVICE QUALITY Learn how to build a lasting foundation of reliability in less time, no matter what stage your services are at today. By Cortex - August 31, 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 - August 24, 2022 Development Business WHY DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE MATTERS AND HOW YOU CAN IMPROVE IT A good developer experience improves morale, productivity, and retention. Learn about understanding developer needs and improving the developer experience. By Cortex - August 17, 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 - August 10, 2022 Cortex Development WHAT IS A DEVELOPER PORTAL AND WHY DO YOU NEED ONE? A developer portal is a central information hub about API products, documentation, and microservices. Read to know how your developer team can use it. By Cortex - August 3, 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 - July 27, 2022 SRE Microservices MAKING SRE METRICS WORK FOR YOUR TEAM SRE metrics are standards that help you track important workflows and measure your organization’s performance, efficiency, and reliability. Keeping microservices architecture up and running requires constantly measuring its health using SRE metrics. To learn more about using SRE metrics, read on. By Cortex - July 20, 2022 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 - July 13, 2022 SRE Microservices BUILDING RELIABLE SERVICES: A GUIDE TO SETTING SLOS Setting relevant SLOs is the key to improving service reliability for your users. Read this guide to understand what service level objectives are and how you can set effective ones with your team. By Cortex - July 6, 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 - 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 - June 22, 2022 Microservices “KEEP CALM AND USE THE RUNBOOK” – WHY RUNBOOKS ARE THE KEY TO HANDLING ANY SITUATION EFFECTIVELY The key to building reliable services is proper preparation. See here how runbooks can help you do just that, by ensuring the right knowledge is readily available when you need it most. By Cortex - June 15, 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 - 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 - June 1, 2022 Engineering Cortex HOW WE CUT OUR POSTGRES RPS BY 50% Over the last year, we’ve been focusing on scaling our infrastructure to handle our growing number of customers and introducing key process changes to help manage complexity. By Aditya Bansal - May 25, 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 - May 18, 2022 Microservices Cortex Business HOW SERVICE OWNERSHIP IMPROVES SHIPPING VELOCITY At DockerCon 2022, we had a conversation with engineering leads from two successful platforms about how they manage microservices, reliability, and more. Check out the highlights here! By Cortex - May 11, 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 - 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 - 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 - April 20, 2022 Microservices Engineering BEST PRACTICES FOR LOGGING MICROSERVICES Logging is an essential debugging and analytics tool for any software system. Here’s how to approach logging for microservices, which come with unique challenges given their distributed nature. By Cortex - April 13, 2022 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 - April 6, 2022 Java Engineering Microservices CREATING JAVA SPRING BOOT MICROSERVICES Learn about creating Spring Boot microservices using Spring Initializr, JHipster, or through custom templating. By Cortex - March 30, 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 - March 23, 2022 Engineering Java Microservices A GUIDE TO JAVA MICROSERVICE FRAMEWORKS With so many Java frameworks out there, how do you know which one is the best fit for your microservice architecture? Learn about a few key frameworks and primary considerations before you adopt one. By - March 16, 2022 Microservices HOW TO STRATEGICALLY APPROACH DOCUMENTING MICROSERVICES Documenting microservices helps to increase developer productivity and resolve issues faster. Here’s how to approach this key part of microservices architecture software development. By Cortex - March 9, 2022 Microservices SERVICE DISCOVERY FOR MICROSERVICES: COMPONENTS, PATTERNS & MORE Learn how to automatically locate available instances within a microservice architecture with Cortex's guide to service discovery for microservices. By Cortex - March 2, 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 - 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 - February 16, 2022 Business Engineering MICROSERVICES PROS AND CONS What are the advantages and disadvantages of microservices vs. a monolithic architecture? Here are some things to keep in mind if you’re starting to investigate a microservices migration in 2022. By Cortex - February 9, 2022 Cookiecutter AN OVERVIEW OF COOKIECUTTER Cookiecutter is a templating library for creating boilerplate for projects in any programming language. In this article, we dig deeper into Cookiecutter’s capabilities, use cases, and tradeoffs. By Cortex - February 2, 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 - February 2, 2022 SRE UNDERSTANDING DORA METRICS How does your DevOps team stack up against competitors? Learn about DORA metrics, what they can reveal about your team’s performance, and how they can help you make informed business decisions. By Cortex - January 26, 2022 Business SRE 5 WAYS TO MEASURE THE QUALITY OF YOUR ENGINEERING CULTURE We’ve looked at five pillars of high-performing engineering organizations to show you how to standardize, quantify, and track your way to a better culture. By Nikhil Unni - January 19, 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 - January 12, 2022 Business Microservices END THE YEAR WITH A SMART STRATEGY FOR YOUR SERVICES IN 2022 No matter where you are on the road to microservice architecture, here’s a plan to make next year one of continual improvement at your organization. By Cortex - December 21, 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 - December 15, 2021 Business SRE Cookiecutter EVANGELIZE THE SRE MINDSET AT YOUR ORGANIZATION How are problems handled in your engineering organization? Learn how to evangelize the SRE mindset and foster a culture of ownership and reliability with these 7 tips. By Cristina Buenahora - December 7, 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 - 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 - November 18, 2021 Cookiecutter Engineering Cortex HOW TO START A DATA SCIENCE PROJECT USING COOKIECUTTER Learn how to create a data science project using the UK government's existing Cookiecutter template for kicking off new projects by following these simple steps. By Aditya Bansal - November 10, 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 - November 3, 2021 Cookiecutter Cortex Engineering HOW TO SPIN UP A PYTHON + DJANGO MICROSERVICE USING COOKIECUTTER Learn how to create a Python + Django microservice using an existing Cookiecutter template by following these simple steps. By Aditya Bansal - October 27, 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 - October 20, 2021 Cookiecutter Cortex Engineering HOW TO CREATE A SPRING BOOT MICROSERVICE USING COOKIECUTTER Learn how to create a Spring Boot microservice using an existing Cookiecutter template by following these simple steps. By Aditya Bansal - October 13, 2021 Business Microservices WHY TODAY’S ENGINEERING LEADERS ARE FOCUSING ON STANDARDIZATION—AND HOW YOU CAN TOO Standardization is becoming a hot topic. Here’s why it’s so important, and concrete advice for bringing consistent operational practices to your engineering team. By Cortex - October 5, 2021 Cookiecutter Cortex Engineering STANDARDIZING PROJECT TEMPLATES WITH COOKIECUTTER Cookiecutter is a flexible templating engine that allows your team to easily create new services based off standard templates that ensure consistent structure and follow the team's defined best practices. By Aditya Bansal - September 29, 2021 SRE HOW SRES CAN DRIVE TEAM ADOPTION OF THE 4 GOLDEN SIGNALS As an SRE, you probably already realize that the four golden signals—latency, traffic, errors, and saturation—are key for monitoring your system. The hard part is making sure your team adopts these signals and uses them to drive actual progress and prioritization. Here’s some tips for putting these numbers into action. By Cortex - September 15, 2021 Integration SRE INSTANT SERVICE INFORMATION USING CORTEX & SLACK By using Cortex and Slack together, you’ll always be up to date with the latest org-wide initiatives, be able to get quick information about services within Cortex, and know who to reach out when Cortex doesn’t have what you’re looking for. By Cortex - September 9, 2021 SRE Business HOW TO BUILD A MODERNIZATION STRATEGY Modernizing your company's infrastructure is critical to delivering high quality and secure software at lower costs. But undertaking modernization projects can be incredibly daunting - here we layout tips and strategies you can use to approach modernization at your company. By Cortex - August 25, 2021 Integration SRE HANDLING INCIDENTS WITH PAGERDUTY & CORTEX Integrating PagerDuty into Cortex can help your team enforce adoption of on-call best practices for each service and team as well as track dozens of key metrics like MTTR through Scorecards. By Cortex - August 19, 2021 Business SRE IMPROVE VELOCITY AND RELIABILITY THROUGH SERVICE STANDARDIZATION Establishing consistency in the way microservices are built can save time, lead to higher quality architecture, and allow the focus to be on the needs of the customer. By Cortex - August 3, 2021 No Results Found Try adjusting your search to find what you're looking for. JOIN 2000+ WEEKLY SUBSCRIBERS * Submit Thank you! You’ve been successfully subscribed Social Media © 2023 Cortex. All rights reserved. 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