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Evaluating developer portals? See how the top 4 Backstage alternatives stack up in terms of setup, extensibility, service catalogs, and team adoption.

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.

Microservices architecture is the most popular trend in application development. It’s a great way to develop faster and deliver better solutions for your customers and users.

OpsLevel helps keep your services consistent and healthy through the use of various pre-built checks. But what if you want to write your own checks from scratch? You can now do that with OpsLevel custom checks. Our custom checks API opens up endless possibilities, allowing you to do things such as integrating with your deployment pipeline or container orchestrator, writing your own check scripts, and more.

If you’re investigating developer portals, you may already see the need for one in your organization. The tough part is finding the solution that works best for your org. To help you get started, we’ll walk you through considerations for establishing your internal developer portal and how it can meet your needs across your development lifecycle.

Here’s a recap of updates and fixes released this month.

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.

Check out everything we've shipped in July.

Here, we’ll explain OpsLevel’s approach to service maturity and offer tips on how to implement or improve your existing service maturity process.