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Home » Features » Cortex Expands Microservices Catalog to Improve Collaboration

Cortex Expands Microservices Catalog to Improve Collaboration

Avatar photoBy: Mike Vizard on November 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

Cortex, a provider of a catalog for tracking the ownership of microservices, today announced it has added a service creation capability that enables developers to use templates to scaffold new services in five minutes.

In addition, the company has added a Cortex Teams offering that improves collaboration across teams of developers working on interdependent microservices.

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Fresh from raising an additional $2.5 million in funding, Cortex claimed it has increased its customer base by a factor of 10 since initially launching last May. Those customers include Rappi, Grammarly and 8×8.

Cortex CTO Ganesh Datta said the company’s microservices catalog makes it simpler for teams of developers, DevOps engineers and security professionals to collaborate at a time when software development is becoming more complex. While microservices-based applications are easier to update and generally more resilient than monolithic applications, composing an application based on interdependent microservices created by different development teams can be more challenging to build and maintain.

In some cases, organizations can even discover that different teams within their organization have built redundant microservices. Part of the reason that occurs is many IT teams still rely on spreadsheets to keep track of what microservices are being built and which ones are already deployed in a production environment.

Cortex, in contrast, automatically imports data residing in developer tools to surface who within an organization is responsible for maintaining which microservices. A Cortex dashboard also enables DevOps teams to see which developers are on-call in the event of an unexpected incident as well as monitor and track the latency rate microservices are experiencing and which vulnerabilities have yet to be remediated.

At the core of the platform is Cortex Query Language (CQL), a domain-specific language that allows DevOps teams to define granular rules that can be applied to, for example, on-call rotations, security vulnerabilities, package versions, service level objectives (SLOs) and the overall health of the microservice. Engineers can employ code in the form of YAML files to set reliability standards across teams and types of services.

Grades can also be assigned to specific microservices based on associated metrics. That approach allows DevOps teams to apply gamification techniques using a scorecard to encourage developers to continuously improve their microservices. That capability makes it apparent to other developers which microservices can be most reliably employed.

It may be a while before microservices-based applications dominate the enterprise landscape. Monolithic applications will be running in production environments well into the next decade. However, many of those monolithic applications are essentially being converted into a larger microservice that other applications can invoke via application programming interfaces (APIs) before being eventually being re-engineered into a set of logically connected microservices.

The one thing that is clear, however, is that as the number of microservices expands, it becomes more difficult to determine precisely what capabilities are already available to highly distributed application development teams.

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