# Managing standards in a developer portal - a how-to guide

DevFeed: [Managing standards in a developer portal - a how-to guide](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/managing-standards-in-a-developer-portal-a-how-to-guide-12254.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.port.io/blog/managing-standards-in-a-developer-portal>)

Author: Jenny Salem

Published: 2026-07-30T10:23:42Z

Content type: tutorial

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>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>), [incident management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-management.md>), [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [developer-portal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-portal.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [sre](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sre.md>), [standards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/standards.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>)

## AI overview

This how-to guide explains how internal developer portals can manage production-readiness standards. It describes reliability criteria, definition-of-done checklists, standards compliance across deployment stages, and the use of automation and self-service to balance engineering checks with development speed.

## Source excerpt

Production readiness varies across engineering teams, but generally, it's a process defining reliability criteria for software in production.