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With the introduction of Actions, the self-serve Cortex developer portal has become even more powerful. Now, Cortex users can deploy services, provision resources, and get temporary access keys — among other things — all in one place.

Reducing development and testing time is one of the top priorities for software development teams. A reduced development time allows teams to move ahead with projects faster and focus more on testing and refining them, which is especially important for end-user-based projects. This is because UI-UX-heavy projects often need to be put through a rigorous review and refinement process before they can finally be launched for customer use.

As engineering organizations transitioned from monolith to microservices architectures, they sought to make their development efforts more scalable and manageable. The microservices paradigm promised to increase development speed, reduce MTTR and improve quality while cutting down on maintenance costs. However, in real life, there are inherent quality caveats when it comes to developing microservices.

The first thing to know when exploring APIs vs microservices is that there’s not a dichotomous relationship between these two technical approaches. Instead, you want to build an understanding of how these two technologies relate to each other—and they do, in a big way. So, organizations don’t need to embrace either an API-first or microservices-first strategy.

In modern application development and architecture, there has been a big push from monolithic, large applications that can do everything a product would need, to many smaller services that have a specific purpose. This onset has brought on the age of microservice frameworks (micro-frameworks), with the goal of making it easier to prototype, build, and design applications in this paradigm.

One of the most important features of any software tool or web application is its reliability. Businesses that offer slow or unreliable software services always risk losing customers to better, more competent service providers. This makes it important for businesses to constantly monitor and enhance the performance and reliability of their digital systems.

If you’re thinking of setting up a developer portal for your software development teams, now is as good a time as any. Developer portals can help your teams start building new projects in a more efficient and streamlined manner. With all the necessary information about available development tools, development environments, service ownership, external APIs, and SDKs present in one place, developers can follow a more systematic approach while building new tools and products.

A developer portal is a single pane of glass that shows specifications, key parameters, and technical information about software development. Read on to learn how to set one up.