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By Cortex
Engineering teams might face the technical hurdle of legacy system dependencies or they might worry about downtime during deployments. This article dives into these challenges and provides strategies to overcome them.
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By 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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By 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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By 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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By Cortex
“Developer experience” is the buzzword, hot topic, and must-address area. Countless tools and platforms have emerged, each promising to help developers “ship faster” by reducing bottlenecks and improving workflows.
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By Cortex
Learn how to measure and improve developer productivity with actionable tips, key metrics, and strategies for long-term success in software development.
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By Lou Bichard
Following up on his discussion at IDPCON, Lou Bichard, Product Manager at Gitpod, revisits the topic of the developer inner loop. Lou Bichard|
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By Cortex
Learn what SLOs are, how to set them effectively, best practices, and key metrics for optimal service reliability. Cortex|
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By Cortex
Learn how to migrate from on-prem to the cloud with ease. Explore benefits, strategies, steps, and best practices for a seamless transition. Cortex|
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By Cortex
Learn how to identify, map, and manage dependencies in dynamic systems to reduce downtime, speed up troubleshooting, and streamline development workflows. Cortex|
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By Cortex
In today’s fast-paced engineering landscape, organizations are turning to Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and foster innovation. But how do you quantify the potential impact of implementing an IDP? What tangible benefits can it deliver to your teams, and how can it transform your development workflows? Watch this webinar recording to.
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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.