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In our channel, you'll find best practices for developer productivity, software and service ownership, production readiness, and how internal developer portals can help! 

Cortex is the internal developer portal that cuts noise for developers with paved paths to production. Catalog, score, and drive action to improve software.

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.

You’ll learn:

-What metrics we should rely on to determine the readiness of software for production
-How we gather those metrics and make them actionable in the best way
-How we know these efforts have improved customer and developer experience
-And how internal developer portals are being used to gather and assess readiness indicators in real time, allowing teams to predict release behavior more accurately.

Defining Production Readiness with Internal Developer Portals

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. 

You'll hear:

-How DORA and SPACE relate to one another
-Why the SPACE framework has faced headwinds despite increasing support
-What the developer tooling ecosystem has been missing to make metrics actionable

Searching for a Portal to SPACE

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?

In this special event webinar, we’ll share how current Cortex customers like Docker use a single platform to not only measure productivity, but actively drive change, and track progress to improvement.

Engineering Productivity: Beyond the Metrics

Poor information architecture is the #1 reason Internal Developer Portal programs fail. Unfortunately, it’s also an extremely complex challenge for engineering teams that affects all parts of your engineering stack.

In this 2-part live event, Cortex Co-founder and CTO, Ganesh Datta, will draw from conversations with hundreds of engineering teams to share what he’s learned about the impact of establishing a resilient information architecture, why it serves rather than is served by a strong catalog, and how to define (or redefine) your own—without fear.

After the event, we’ll invite attendees back for Part 2, where Ganesh will answer questions attendees may have as they begin the process of building their IA.


We'll discuss:

-How engineering teams should think about information architecture, and why a properly mapped IA is critical for success
-Who’s responsible for an IA, and who contributes to definitions and dependencies
-How the information in your IA can be used both programmatically and by individual developers in daily work
-When you should consider retooling your IA, as well as what to do if you fear the rest of your data ecosystem is unreliable
-Common pitfalls and gaps in deployment, plus how to unwind them if needed
-What to do in the next 30, 60, and 90 days to create a resilient model that scales with your organization

Building your IDP’s information architecture

Internal developer portals (IDPs) have received a lot of attention lately. Internal Developer Portals serve as the engineering system of record—providing developers with the context and tools they need to ensure services and resources they own align with best practices for deployment readiness, operational maturity, security compliance, and more. But they do more than just act as a system of record for your whole stack. They also help drive alignment, improve MTTR, and can even reduce cloud spend.

In this webinar, we'll dive into the top five use cases for IDPs we've seen across Cortex customers, and explore the measurable outcomes organizations have achieved.

Key Takeaways:

-What is an IDP?
-How an IDP can help your developers
-How an IDP can drive alignment, improve MTTR and reduce cloud spend
-Learn the top five real-world use cases for internal developer portals.

The Top 5 Use Cases for Internal Developer Portals

In the last 5 years, we’ve watched the world's fastest growing engineering teams ditch development monoliths in favor of service-oriented architectures that speed time to market. And as microservices multiplied—making it harder to track ownership and quality—Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) emerged to help. But while the prospect of a single portal for developer productivity sounds enticing, veteran leaders know the perception of “one more tool” can make org-wide adoption challenging.

In this webinar, the Cortex team will shine a light on what developers need (and want) from their IDPs, as well as what engineering leaders can do to maximize adoption in a way that increases productivity, accountability, and quality of work.

Shining a Light on Developer Productivity

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?

Join us for this playbook-style webinar where Cortex Head of Solutions Engineering, Mike Moore, will draw on the hundreds of conversations he’s had with engineering teams working to deploy an internal developer portal:

-What works
-What doesn’t
-What might be missing from your IDP strategy

Your IDP Playbook - Best Practices for Internal Developer Portals

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