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A Terraform-first Approach to Internal Developer Portals
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A Terraform-first Approach to Internal Developer Portals

Mar 14, 2023

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Why “running service” should be part of the data model in your internal developer portal
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Why “running service” should be part of the data model in your internal developer portal

Mar 2, 2023

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Announcing the AWS Exporter
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Announcing the AWS Exporter

Mar 1, 2023

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The Four Pillars of Internal Developer Portals
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The Four Pillars of Internal Developer Portals

Feb 19, 2023

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Announcing Manual Approval for Developer Self-service
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Announcing Manual Approval for Developer Self-service

Feb 5, 2023

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How to Drive a Culture of Kubernetes Standards With Platform Engineering
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How to Drive a Culture of Kubernetes Standards With Platform Engineering

Jan 30, 2023

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An Internal Developer Portal for Workflow Automation
Workflow Automation

An Internal Developer Portal for Workflow Automation

Jan 11, 2023

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A Package Catalog in Your Internal Developer Portal
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A Package Catalog in Your Internal Developer Portal

Jan 9, 2023

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Announcing the GitHub and Bitbucket Exporters
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Announcing the GitHub and Bitbucket Exporters

Jan 5, 2023

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Developer Self-Service: Beware of Missing the Point
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Developer Self-Service: Beware of Missing the Point

Jan 2, 2023

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Do Devops Need an Internal Developer Portal?
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Do Devops Need an Internal Developer Portal?

Dec 30, 2022

DevOps need internal developer portals too. Tracking all services, resources, and devops tools in a multi-cloud multi-region environment is too much.

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5 Steps to Whiteboard Your Software Catalog Taxonomy
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5 Steps to Whiteboard Your Software Catalog Taxonomy

Dec 29, 2022

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Announcing Role-based Access Control
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Announcing Role-based Access Control

Dec 28, 2022

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Announcing the Software Catalog Dependency Graph
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Announcing the Software Catalog Dependency Graph

Dec 22, 2022

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Backstage Plugin Development 101: Introduction and a basic example
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Backstage Plugin Development 101: Introduction and a basic example

Dec 21, 2022

In this article we’ll cover what Backstage plugins are, how they integrate with Backstage, and show you a quick tutorial on how to develop a simple plugin.

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Port Queries and Reporting
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Port Queries and Reporting

Dec 20, 2022

Port Search is one API to answer all software and infrastructure questions or reporting needs, taking advantage of the breadth and depth of Port’s software catalog and the underlying dependencies of software catalog entities.

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What You Should Know About Production Readiness: a guide
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What You Should Know About Production Readiness: a guide

Dec 19, 2022

Learn what production readiness means and how to create a production readiness checklist of requirements. In this article, Yonatan Boguslavski explains why you need to evaluate your services and how to improve their production readiness.

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Using Backstage’s C4 Model Adaptation to Visualize Software - Creating a Software Catalog in Port
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Using Backstage’s C4 Model Adaptation to Visualize Software - Creating a Software Catalog in Port

Dec 18, 2022

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Announcing Port Timer: TTL for ephemeral cloud environments, permissions and more
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Announcing Port Timer: TTL for ephemeral cloud environments, permissions and more

Dec 14, 2022

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Announcing SOC2 Compliance: Ensuring your Internal Developer Portal is as safe as it should be
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Announcing SOC2 Compliance: Ensuring your Internal Developer Portal is as safe as it should be

Dec 13, 2022

We’re happy to announce that we’ve passed SOC2 certification and are now SOC2 compliant.

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Announcing Port Scorecards
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Announcing Port Scorecards

Dec 4, 2022

Port scorecards lets you define your requirements and standards for quality, production readiness, productivity, and more, measure and track them. Once they are defined, you can easily track scorecards within the internal developer portal in the context of the specific entity they relate to (such as a microservice, environment, cluster or any other software catalog object). You can use scorecards for reporting, auditing and to enforce standards and create accountability and visibility.

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Add API Visualizations in Port with Swagger UI, Embedded URL and Markdown Information
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Add API Visualizations in Port with Swagger UI, Embedded URL and Markdown Information

Nov 29, 2022

Announcing new visualization features: markdown documentation, Open API (swagger) and embedded URLs

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Platform Engineering: what is it and why do you need it?
Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering: what is it and why do you need it?

Nov 23, 2022

As a global DevOps community, we have pretty much nailed the agile process, but one thing we didn’t plan for was the Cognitive Load of the various software involved for teams. Enter the Platform Engineer. A master of DevOps who understands exactly how to leverage a best-in-class software stack for optimal outcomes. They are the MacGyvers of DevOps. And simply put, you need one. In this article, we cover everything from the basics of being a Platform Engineer to the benefits of hiring one for your team.

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Backstage: All You Need to Know About This Developer Portal
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Backstage: All You Need to Know About This Developer Portal

Nov 23, 2022

Behind the playlists and podcasts of Spotify’s sizable audio catalog is Backstage, touted as one of the leading choices in the Developer Portal world. We’re taking a VIP pass to look in detail at the benefits and solutions a developer portal solves and whether Backstage is the right platform for you.

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Enabling developer independence: delivering world class documentation
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Enabling developer independence: delivering world class documentation

Nov 8, 2022

Port is a product used by developers and DevOps professionals, so comprehensive, clear and beautiful documentation is our top priority. Read on if you’d like to understand how we write, validate and ship documentation for our platform, to make sure developers get the most out of their developer portal

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Announcing the Kubernetes Exporter
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Announcing the Kubernetes Exporter

Nov 7, 2022

We’re super-excited to release the Port Kubernetes Exporter, since it realizes our vision of a software catalog that contains the entire ecosystem surrounding software: CI/CD flows, dev environments, pipelines, deployments and anything cloud, covering the entire software development lifecycle

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Port Raises $7M to Build an Internal Developer Portal That Fits Any Engineering Organization
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Port Raises $7M to Build an Internal Developer Portal That Fits Any Engineering Organization

Nov 3, 2022

Port improves dev productivity by abstracting away environments, microservices, devops tasks and tools and presenting them through a unified product-like interface

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What is Developer Experience (DevEx, DX)?
Platform Engineering

What is Developer Experience (DevEx, DX)?

Oct 11, 2022

Developer experience is a new persona constructed in many organizations to ensure developers’ agility—Learn everything you need to know about DX.

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How GitOps Affects the Developer Experience
Platform Engineering

How GitOps Affects the Developer Experience

Oct 3, 2022

GitOps has a lot going for it, but it can also be challenging from the developer experience perspective. In this blog, we’ll discuss the reasons that impact the developer experience (and DevOps outcomes) and how internal developer portals can keep what’s good about GitOps and provide a smoother developer experience.

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How We Use Our Own Developer Portal: Being our worst critics
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How We Use Our Own Developer Portal: Being our worst critics

Oct 3, 2022

Given that we’re a company that believes everyone should have a developer portal, we should also be committed to improving our product through dogfooding. Read on if you’d like to understand how we use our internal developer portal for a better developer experience (and productivity, of course) - and specifically for deployment tracking and environment locks

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The advantages of ‘builder-based’ product design (and how to do it)
Internal Developer Portal

The advantages of ‘builder-based’ product design (and how to do it)

Sep 23, 2022

The builder-based approach is way more than a trend if you're asking me. Here's why I believe developing a 'builder' mindset can deepen the success of your product teams.

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Letting Developers Create Microservices Quickly: Monday's Developer Portal
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Letting Developers Create Microservices Quickly: Monday's Developer Portal

Sep 16, 2022

Monday.com built an internal developer platform to enable developer self-service. Today an amazing 40% of its developers use the platform every week.

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What I Learned From Building a Developer Portal for an Enterprise
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What I Learned From Building a Developer Portal for an Enterprise

Sep 16, 2022

How do you get over 1000 devs to work together to consume resources and assets? Yonatan Boguslavski learned the hard way that building DevOps infrastructure isn’t an easy task. Nevertheless, his persistence led to the development of Port. So when we say we’ve been there and done it, you’ll know we've really done it.

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How to Upgrade Your Start-Up to an Enterprise?
Platform Engineering

How to Upgrade Your Start-Up to an Enterprise?

Sep 12, 2022

How do you take a simple Proof of Concept (POC), written in your parent’s garage, and turn it into a production-ready world-class system? Our DevEx Engineer Mor shares the lessons learned and insight gained from taking Port to the next level.

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Learning from CyberArk: building an Internal Developer Platform for Self-Service and increased velocity 
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Learning from CyberArk: building an Internal Developer Platform for Self-Service and increased velocity 

Sep 6, 2022

CyberArk's team had a vision for a better developer experience, and ended up building an internal developer platform in-house. How much faster is deployment to production and how did they accomplish this and create consensus around the need? What are they planning for the future? Read on.

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A Microservice Catalog Isn’t Enough: why software catalogs are the right approach for Developer Portals
Software Catalog

A Microservice Catalog Isn’t Enough: why software catalogs are the right approach for Developer Portals

Aug 30, 2022

Let's take a deep dive into the best approach today for platform engineers to catalog assets and services- the software catalog. In this article we'll discuss what a software catalog is, and why it is the best approach for internal developer platforms, regardless if you build or buy it

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What is a Developer Portal and Why Do You Need It?
Platform Engineering

What is a Developer Portal and Why Do You Need It?

Aug 16, 2022

If you've heard the term 'Developer Portal' a few times and wonder what all the fuss is about, this article is for you. Zohar Einy, CEO of Port, is on hand to run through everything you need to know about DevPortals.

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Scale Your React Project: use mocks to decouple Backend from Frontend development
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Scale Your React Project: use mocks to decouple Backend from Frontend development

Aug 16, 2022

Learn how to up scale your project using a UI-mocks infrastructure. This allows the developer to take full control of all variables and for a better development process that's decoupled from any unexpected eternal source.

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Microservice Catalog: everything you need to know
Software Catalog

Microservice Catalog: everything you need to know

Aug 8, 2022

This article covers everything you need to know about microservice catalog, from the basics to the benefits of using one.

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It’s a Trap - Jenkins as Self-Service UI
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It’s a Trap - Jenkins as Self-Service UI

Aug 7, 2022

Enabling Jenkins self-service can work well for developer self-service, but there are many known visibility, compliance and other issues that stem from the inherent openness of Jenkins. At some point the speed and flexibility can turn into a mess. There’s a better way to do self-service (and not with Jenkins self-service), solving for a great developer experience and creating much less devops bottlenecks and surprises. It’s called a developer portal, or a software/resource catalog.

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