# How We Use Our Own Developer Portal

DevFeed: [How We Use Our Own Developer Portal](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-we-use-our-own-developer-portal-12303.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.port.io/blog/use-our-own-developer-portal-worst-critics>)

Author: Mor Paz

Published: 2026-07-22T11:37:29Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Developer Experience & Platform Engineering Blog | Port](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/developer-experience-platform-engineering-blog-port.md>)

Topics: [internal developer portal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internal-developer-portal.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [dogfooding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dogfooding.md>), [internal developer platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internal-developer-platform.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [code productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-productivity.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>)

Tags: [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [developer-portal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-portal.md>), [dogfooding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dogfooding.md>), [internal-developer-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internal-developer-platform.md>), [internal-developer-portal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internal-developer-portal.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/productivity.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Port uses its own internal developer portal as a form of dogfooding to improve developer experience and productivity. It describes the portal's software catalog and several use cases, with particular focus on deployment tracking and environment locks.

## Source excerpt

How we use our internal developer portal for a better developer experience and productivity - specifically for deployment tracking and environment locks