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Most Internal Developer Portals force your teams to work around rigid schemas or invest months in customization. What if your IDP finally adapted to your unique engineering reality instead of the other way around?

A Service Maturity Assessment is an invaluable tool for any engineering leader who wants to drive service reliability, scalability, and consistency.

There’s been a notable uptick in engineering teams' adoption of Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) to streamline developer workflows, manage services, and enforce software standards. Two popular options, Cortex and Backstage, offer intriguing approaches to solving these challenges. But as many teams discover, the complexity and limitations of these platforms can outweigh their benefits, especially when scalability, flexibility, and speed are priorities. That’s where OpsLevel comes in. In this article, we’ll explore the pros and cons of Cortex and Backstage, and explain why OpsLevel is the best alternative for engineering teams that want to move quickly, maintain high standards, and minimize operational overhead.

Automate production readiness with tools that streamline service discovery, track maturity, and help engineering teams meet standards without slowing down.

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Software development teams are expected to move faster than ever. But with that speed comes an increased chance of error. That’s left companies wondering: how do you balance agility with quality? In this article, we’ll look at how you can use a service maturity framework to ensure a consistent level of quality across all software engineering teams in your organization.

Looking to unlock the power of the best Backstage plugins? Find out which ones to use, how to choose the right plugins for your team, and the OpsLevel plugin for Backstage.