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Breaking Down Silos: Why Security and SRE Teams Need a Unified Platform for Reliability and Risk Management

Mar 18, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Security and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams often operate as separate entities within organizations despite sharing similar goals: keeping systems secure, reliable, and performant. Security teams focus on protecting systems from threats and ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks. SRE teams concentrate on system reliability, performance optimization, and incident management.
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13 Cloud Migration Best Practices: 2025 guide

Mar 10, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Cloud migration involves transferring digital assets, services, databases, applications, and IT resources from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments. A well-executed cloud migration can reduce operational costs, improve scalability, enhance flexibility, and boost performance. Organizations can shift from capital-intensive infrastructure to more predictable pay-as-you-go expenses while scaling resources to match needs.
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Guide: Assessing the ROI of an Internal Developer Portal (IDP)

Feb 14, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
When considering or advocating for an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) within your organization, assessing potential impact is an exciting, but sometimes challenging endeavor, especially considering the broad set of use cases IDPs support and the lack of context and visibility before the presence of an IDP. Maybe you understand the inherent value of an IDP, but need to quantify the estimated savings/impact to justify the spend.
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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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How Xero Scaled Engineering Excellence with Cortex

Jan 31, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Mark Dunlop, Head of Engineering Experience at Xero, shares how their team transitioned from managing service ownership in spreadsheets to building an internal portal—only to outgrow it. By adopting Cortex, Xero gained a centralized source of truth for ownership, compliance, and engineering standards across their globally distributed teams. With features like scorecards and workflows, Cortex is helping Xero drive engineering excellence, improve standardization, and elevate conversations beyond engineers to GMs and executive leaders. Watch to learn how Cortex is shaping the future of engineering at Xero!
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Webinar: Unlocking the Value of an IDP - Assessing the impact for your Organization

Jan 30, 2025 By Cortex In 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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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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