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API Developer Portal: A hands-on guide for building self-service API platforms

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APIs are no longer isolated services, they are the connective tissue of modern applications, enabling seamless integration across platforms, microservices, and external ecosystems. Yet, as organizations scale their APIs, a common challenge emerges: how do you make these APIs easily discoverable, testable, and usable while maintaining consistent security and governance? An API Developer Portal addresses … Read more

Frequently Asked Questions about Cycloid Internal Developer Portal and Platform

1. Features & Customization Q: Can I tailor Cycloid to our specific workflows? A: Absolutely. Cycloid offers StackForms, customizable service catalog forms, plus Components, which allow modular configuration of individual infrastructure components.This means you can mix, match, and organize components per environment via GitOps workflows. And our customizable pipeline allows for a powerful integration with … Read more

Day 2 Operations: A Practical Guide for Managing Post-Deployment Complexity

What Are Day 2 Operations? To understand Day 2, you have to rewind a bit and look at the three phases that make up the full lifecycle of cloud infrastructure and applications. Day 0 is your planning ground. It’s where foundational decisions happen, cloud architecture, identity strategy, compliance policies, IaC templates, and even developer workflows. … Read more

When should you adopt Platform Engineering?

If you’ve not been living under a rock for the last year and a half, chances are you’ve heard of Platform Engineering. The latest industry trend promises to do everything DevOps tried to do and failed, yet again: lighten your devs’ workload, improve DevX, skyrocket operational efficiency, and turn your projects into rivers of gold.

In truth, Platform Engineering continues the process DevOps started. With PE, leaders have an actionable plan to build toolchains and workflows that empower developers of any skill level with self-service capabilities. It’s an all-round solution that not only improves devs’ autonomy and collaboration, but also enhances resource management, and provides ecosystem and plug-in integration.

You see why it’s an extremely attractive proposition for IT departments – and a very daunting undertaking. After all, it takes nearly 3 years and 20 dedicated specialists to start seeing tangible results. And yet, Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of IT departments will adopt internal platform engineering teams. 

Obviously, you don’t want to be left behind, but does this mean you should join the race now? When should you adopt Platform Engineering?

Let’s look at the factors that mean your organization needs to consider platform engineering seriously.

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New ESRS: A Roadmap for Sustainable Cloud Reporting

On July 31st, 2023 the European Commission announced new sustainability reporting in the European Union. The European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) will change how European businesses (and companies that do business in the EU) are required to report on their sustainability and ESG.

The standards cover the full range of environmental, social, and governance issues, including climate change, biodiversity, and human rights. They also provide information for investors to understand the sustainability impact of the companies in which they invest. Here’s what the timeline looks like.

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It’s important to note that while these standards have been announced, they are not yet legally binding. However, they serve as a powerful indicator of the direction Europe is taking regarding business sustainability. It’s clear that the winds of change are blowing strongly in favor of greater transparency and responsibility in the corporate world. And we’re all for it!

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Nouvelles normes ESRS : quelles conséquences pour les rapports de durabilité numérique?

Le 31 juillet 2023, la Commission européenne a annoncé une nouvelle forme de communication de données sur la durabilité au sein de l’Union européenne. Les normes ESRS (normes européennes de reporting sur la durabilité) vont bouleverser les habitudes en matière de communication de données des entreprises européennes (et de celles qui génèrent un chiffre d’affaires dans l’UE). En effet, elles devront répondre à des nouvelles prérogatives quant à leurs rapports sur la durabilité et la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises (RSE).

Ces normes s’appliquent aux échelles environnementale, sociale, et de gouvernance, ce qui comprend le dérèglement climatique, la biodiversité et les droits humains. Elles permettent également d’informer les investisseurs au sujet des répercussions environnementales des entreprises auxquelles ils sont associés. Voici à quoi ressemble la chronologie de leur application.

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Il faut retenir que malgré l’annonce de ces normes, elles ne sont pas encore entrées en vigueur du point de vue du droit. Cependant, elles représentent une prise de position claire de la part de l’UE quant à la durabilité des entreprises. Un vent nouveau souffle sur le monde des affaires, et il est manifestement en faveur de plus de transparence et de responsabilité ; pour nous, il s’agit d’excellentes nouvelles !

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Tick-tock goes the FinOps clock: introducing Cost Estimation

We know that to truly thrive in today’s business environment, you need agility. That means giving some of the control back to your devs, in order to allow them to make more agile, flexible decisions about your infra and the applications running on it. One thing you don’t want to give up control over, though? The bill for those oh-so-agile changes.

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