Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) are the engineering system of record. They use connection to all tooling to provide golden paths for new software builds, and ensure continuous alignment to standards of excellence.
From services and APIs to Kubernetes clusters and data pipelines—IDPs eliminate “swivel chair” for devs by centralizing the information they need to build, deploy, and maintain healthy software. LetsGetChecked, BigCommerce, and Grammarly see results like decreased incident frequency and duration, and increased in deployment velocity with Cortex's IDP
You have lots of tools for developing software, and likely many more to ensure the health of that software. But despite having an abundance of data, it’s harder than ever to answer questions that require inputs from multiple sources—including who owns what, what it’s made of, and what needs to happen to ensure alignment to standards of readiness and excellence. This has led to longer ramp time, slower deployments, and more incidents that take longer to resolve. Cortex unites data from all of your existing tools to:
To learn more about how an IDP can help your team, take a look at our blog post: What is an Internal Developer Portal?
Cortex’s fully custom software catalogs connect to identity providers like Okta, Google, and Workday to automatically track software ownership through team, title, and personnel changes. No more orphaned software means software stays in alignment with standards you define.
To learn more about driving software ownership at your organization, check out this blog.
Cortex draws on data from all of your connected tools to drive alignment to any standard of production readiness you define. Set owners and SLOs, require runbooks and rollback plans, create caps for maximum vulnerabilities or tickets, or ensure connection to the latest code coverage and observability tools—all in one place. Turn standards into templates and workflows that make it easy to build and quick to deploy production ready software. And when code is updated, ownership changes, new tools are adopted, or old packages hit end-of-life, auto-alert owners of action needed to bring software back into alignment.
To see this firsthand, check out the Cortex Production Readiness Tour!
By centralizing the tools, templates, and tasks developers need to build healthy software, Cortex reduces context switching across applications, and eliminates rote work. Reduce time-to-find when onboarding or during an incident by automatically surfacing all relevant context from tools like Pagerduty, Git, Jira—or even homegrown sources and tools. Reduce fire drills with always-on standards of excellence that make it easy for devs to keep software perpetually secure and reliable. And get devs out of approval queues for common tasks like secrets allocation and service deployment.
To track how software health impacts productivity take a tour of our Eng Intelligence solution, or check out this blog.
Backstage is a framework for building internal developer portals. As such, It requires dedicated resources to stand up, build and test integrations/plugins, and support engineers through troubleshooting and use case expansion.
Cortex is a SaaS IDP with 50+ pre-built integrations, the ability to overlay custom and continuous software scoring,
self-service actions, and a mechanism for alerting when software requires attention—all things you need to increase adoption and reduce maintenance time. Plus, you can customize your experience with our industry-first plugin framework.
If you're trying to avoid pulling engineers away from their core work, but still looking for the same flexibility, Cortex's Internal Developer Portal is where you should start. For more details, check out our Cortex vs Backstage comparison page.
Developer experience and productivity are top of mind this year as organizations sharpen a focus on engineering efficiency. In a bid to become the central hub for developer interactions—Internal Developer Portals have landed on the short list of priority programs for engineering teams in every industry. But with just a few years on the shelf, many IDP programs are beginning to fail or flail. Why?
Watch this playbook-style webinar where Cortex Head of Solutions Engineering, Mike Moore, draw on the hundreds of conversations he’s had with engineering teams working to deploy an internal developer portal:
Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
Guests will enjoy hand-crafted cocktails and elevated recreations of midwestern favorites at the original billiards room. The Game Room features classic games including pop-a-shot, skeeball, billiards, shuffleboard, and more.
This event is suitable for technology leaders, information security decision makers, and platform leads including, but not limited to: CXO (CTO, CIO, Chief Digital Officer), VP/Director of IT; mid-level information security management (Senior Security Manager, IT Security Manager, IT Manager), technical information security practitioners (Security Engineer, Messaging Architect, IT Analyst), VP/Director of Platform Engineering, Enterprise Architect, Cloud Architect, Platform Architect, Chief Architect, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, Platform Owner, Director.
This event is not open to channel or technology partners.
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Visit our booth to chat with Cortex experts and watch a live demo to see how an Internal Developer Portal can provide comprehensive visibility into your microservice architecture, measure service health, and enforce best practices. Stop by early to grab exclusive swag before it’s all gone!
Booth: #1081
Booth Location: Venetian Expo Hall
Hear what developers want from internal developer portals and how to maximize adoption, increase productivity, enforce accountability, and improve quality of work. You’ll learn how to build a culture of continuous improvement with the Cortex service catalog, templated frameworks, and customizable scorecards.
Date: Wednesday, November 29
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: VEN - Developer Solutions Zone
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