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The hardest part of engineering is everything around the code, and AI is making it harder. Our job is to stay close to the leaders who deal with that every day. Grateful this review on G2 picked up on it.
g2.com/products/cortex-io-co…
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New Feature Friday: arrays of primitives in Workflow User Inputs.
Get the array your workflow needs, without the object (or the transformation step) in the way.
Solution Architect Jeff Schnitter has the walkthrough.
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Every reliability dashboard hits the same wall: zoom into the metric that's breaking, and the rest of the system disappears from view. KPI cards in Engineering Intelligence fix that. Compact cards for what's steady, full-size charts for what's not.
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Most search bars are just filtered lists. We rebuilt Catalog search into a real query language: Boolean operators, autocomplete, and automatic fallback suggestions when your query comes up empty. Feature Friday demo from Keith Zeto (Lead Platform Engineer):
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New in Engineering Intelligence: enhanced filters.
Exclude values, catch nulls, wildcard match, filter by PR size or cycle time, drop weekends from time ranges, and set scope once at the dashboard level.
Christine Byun walks through it for this week's Feature Friday:
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The World Cup is down to the final two and so is Cortex's Coming Home Dashboard.
This #NewFeatureFriday, Cristina walks through tabular views (now in public beta) for tracking scorecards and operational maturity across services.
Reach out to your CSM to try it.
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Cortex Scorecards + DRIVE: know your engineering org's health, not just its output.
With bronze/silver/gold scorecards for delivery, reliability, initiatives, vigilance, and efficiency.
Docs: cortex.io/drive
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GitHub rule sets are now supported in Cortex scorecards. And your existing branch protection rules? Already covered.
Watch this week's Feature Friday 👇
#NewFeatureFriday #GitHub
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AI is producing code faster than engineering orgs can absorb it.
Today we're releasing DRIVE: a framework that measures whether your org can actually keep up, across delivery, reliability, initiatives, vigilance, and efficiency.
Take the assessment: cortex.io/drive/assessment
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Happy Feature Friday!
We just dropped Data Explorer with Tabular View in beta.
Compare metrics side by side, pull in scorecard data alongside your time series, and we tracked the World Cup with it.
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Cortex Scorecards + Datadog: know exactly which services are production ready, and which aren't.
Senior Engineer Douglas Cooper walks through linking Datadog to Cortex and turning production readiness from a question into a checklist.
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NYC for DASH? Or just in NYC?
Cortex + Spacelift + Infisical happy hour, Tuesday June 9th, 6:30 PM at our office rooftop.
RSVP: luma.com/nscbskgt
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If you're in London for LeadDev this week, come decompress with us.
Cortex and incident.io are hosting a proper off-call night at Old Street Tavern on Tuesday, June 2 at 6pm.
Space is limited. Grab your spot: luma.com/ktb9zeeg
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Your CI pipeline can now trigger Cortex Workflows directly.
No UI, no manual step.
Workflows Run API is in beta.
Cortex CLI v1.15.0+, pass context via JSON, run sync or async.
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We outgrew our own conference. IDPCON is now EVOLVE.
Join us on Sept 24, 2026, in NYC for operator-led talks on production readiness, AI adoption, reliability at scale.
Apply to attend: evolve.cortex.io
#EVOLVE2026
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Feature Friday:
Our Principal Product Manager Christine Byun walks through the new All Scorecards report.
See AI maturity, production readiness, incident prep, and every other scorecard side by side. Group by team or domain. Drill from heat map to a failing rule.
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Every team ships feature flags. Nobody owns the cleanup.
Our VP of Product Kara Gillis used the Cortex AI Assistant in Slack to triage nearly 100 of our own LaunchDarkly flags: candidates for removal, flags needing review, a prioritized cleanup list.
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What if you could measure the impact of an org change in 15 seconds?
Our new Slack AI Assistant does exactly that — pulling DORA metrics, incident data, and cycle times across every team to answer the questions engineering leaders used to wait weeks to get answered.
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@Cortex who owns payments-api @Cortex what changed in the prod-readiness scorecard last week @Cortex which services are blocking the k8s migration
All in Slack. All grounded in your Cortex data. Public beta: docs.cortex.io/get-started/c…
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"Reliability is the product."
Dan Sadler, VP Eng at @Rootly, joined Braintrust to talk building a culture of reliability and what that looks like day-to-day.
Listen to the full episode:
🎧 piped.video/vIf5VKP69Fc
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Context switching kills MTTR. 📉
Stop hunting for incident data. Our new Incident Core Type brings @incident_io data directly into the Cortex Catalog.
Better context = Faster resolution. ⚡️
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Engineering leadership is a technical role at every level.
Listen to the full episode: piped.video/watch?v=I3TI4fUU… 🎧
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How do you measure impact when you stop writing code? 🎙️
In our latest Braintrust episode, Tamar Bercovici (VP of Engineering at @Box) joins Ganesh Datta to discuss scaling from Senior IC to VP.
Check out the key insights⤵️
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"Relying on individual heroes to YOLO their way through deployments is unsustainable."
New episode of Braintrust: how SIXT went from 2 deployments/month to 10,000 - by betting on standardization, not heroics.
🎙️piped.video/watch?v=NG-maZo2…
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How do @Canva, @Etsy, and @Tripadvisor scale operational excellence? 🚀
💡: It’s not spreadsheets.
Join us on 4/22 for an overview of the Cortex EngOps platform. See how to:
✅ Automate Scorecards ✅ Centralize Visibility ✅ Build Golden Paths
Register: get-cortex.co/3NyEq7O
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Spent a week at KubeCon Amsterdam talking to engineering leaders.
The consensus: AI ROI and reliability aren't separate problems.
If PRs are up but P1s are too — you're measuring the wrong thing.
Full recap → cortex.io/post/KubeCon-Europ…
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This #FeatureFriday we show how we’re making AI usage measurable. 📈
Now, you can pull Copilot metrics directly into your Scorecards via CQL:
🔹 Identify who is actually using AI.
🔹 Track % of seats leveraged.
🔹 Set adoption targets to ensure ROI.
Start seeing the data. 👇
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🕹️ Insert Coin: Arcade Night!
Join Cortex, @incident_io, @AikidoSecurity, and @picnic for a retro-inspired happy hour at #KubeCon Amsterdam.
✅ Classic arcade vibes
✅ Cold drinks
❌ No panels.
Request your spot here: luma.com/arcadenight?utm_sou…
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It’s #FeatureFriday and March Madness is here! 🏀
Cortex isn't just for services, it’s for winning family bets. Watch how we used Entity Relationship Types to map a full bracket and track scores.
If we can do this for a bracket, imagine your EngOps ecosystem. 🚀
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Join Cortex for The Path to Excellence bike tour at #KubeCon! 🚲
🗓️ Thurs, March 26
⏰ 7:30 – 9:00 AM
📍 Starts/Ends at RAI Amsterdam
🧥 Limited edition Cortex rain jacket included
Request your spot: events.cortex.io/path-to-exc…
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Custom Metrics has officially landed in Metrics Explorer! 🚀
We’ve always offered 40+ first-party integrations, but today we’re opening the doors even wider. Now, you can bring any time-series data into Cortex to get a unified view of your services.
Stop jumping between tabs.
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"Where does this service live?"
"Who owns this database?"
"Does this meet our security standards?"
If your platform team is answering these questions manually, you’re losing. 📉
Cortex is teaming up with @syntasso to bridge the gap between execution and intelligence. 👇
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If you’re building a data-driven org in 2026, you can't skip the human element. Stop measuring people, and start measuring the machine.
Check out the full conversation here: piped.video/watch?v=7CqyiKvY…
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Metrics don’t kill engineering culture. A lack of trust does. 📉
When leadership mentions "DORA metrics" or "KPIs," the room usually goes quiet. The fear? "Are these going to be used against us?"
Here is how to fix the metric anxiety gap: 🧵
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Sales has SalesOps. Marketing has MarketingOps. Revenue has RevOps.
Why is your most expensive, complex, and innovative department, Engineering, still operating without a dedicated Ops function? 🧵
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Visualizing service dependencies shouldn't feel like detective work. 🕵️♂️
On this #FeatureFriday, Stormy shows off our new Relationships Graph! Toggle between tabular views and interactive maps to see parents, children, and metadata at a glance.
Grok your catalog in seconds. 🕸️✨
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🚀Feature Friday: the all-new Birds Eye Report 🦅
Stop squinting at data. Get a true "top-down" view of scorecard performance across your entire org.
✅ Roll up scores by domain or team.
✅ See exactly how every entity impacts the aggregate.
✅ & more
See it in action ⤵️
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Stop the tab-hopping! 🛑
For #NewFeatureFriday, our new AI Docs Assistant. Get instant answers on configs, permissions, and more—directly inside Cortex.
Just hit Cmd + K to start asking. 🚀
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It’s not you, it’s the maintenance overhead. 🚩
Stop paying the "DIY tax" on your IDP. Join Anish and Jeff (ex-Workday) to learn how to scale to 1,000+ devs without the Backstage headache.
🎁 First 50 signups get a Breakup Survival Kit!
Register: cortex.registration.goldcast…
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Stop the copy-paste madness. 🛑✂️
Every second spent hunting for an Entity ID is a second you aren’t fixing the problem.
With Pre-populated Entities, context follows you from Scorecard to Workflow automatically.
✅ No manual entry ✅ No typos ✅ Faster MTTR
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Is engineering leadership more like coaching or conducting? 🏀
Ganesh & Jeff (ex-Workday) talk shifting culture:
✅ Coaching happens at practice, not the sideline ✅ Breaking "Stockholm Syndrome" of bad code ✅ Why engineering is "faith-based"
Listen: piped.video/watch?v=9wzKoPe-…
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Big congrats to our VP of Sales, Mike Connell, on celebrating 4 incredible years at Cortex! 🏆
His leadership has helped define the very standard of how we partner with our customers. Thank you for your relentless drive, your mentorship, and for leading the charge! 💜
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We are thrilled to welcome Roland to the Cortex team! 🚀
As we continue to scale our platform and empower engineering teams to build better software, we know Roland’s expertise will be a massive force multiplier.
We’re so glad to have you on board, Roland! 💜
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Feature Friday: Cortex MCP 'My Workspace' ✨
Stop explaining who you are to your tools. The Cortex MCP now knows your identity from the jump. 👤
👥 Team ownership 🧐 PR & Review status 🗒️ Jira To-Dos 💯 Service health
Actionable context, zero digging. ⚡️
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An expensive amp won't make you a better guitarist; it just makes mistakes louder. 🎸
AI is the same. Without a foundation, you get chaos, not productivity.
To win:
🛣️ Paved Roads (IDP)
🤳 Context Engineering (Docs)
🏗️ Quality > Quantity
Read more: cortex.io/post/how-ai-amplif…
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Shipping at the speed of light is great—until you hit a wall. 🏎️💥
Tomorrow, we’re breaking down:
🚫 Why your PR count is lying to you
🛠️ 4 capabilities for safe AI growth
📉 How to close the governance gap
📅 9 AM PT | 12 PM ET
👉 Register here: cortex.registration.goldcast…
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Production readiness isn't just a technical checklist—it’s a customer commitment. 🚀
Fred Mare (Principal Engineer @Xero) joins Braintrust to explain why true readiness means asking:
✅ Is it secure?
✅ Is it available?
✅ Does it delight the user?
piped.video/watch?v=wn6nMyHA…
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"One-size-fits-all" is how you kill IDP adoption. 👟
At #IDPCON2025, Pragya shared how @Paxos hit 100% awareness by ditching mandates for a product mindset:
👥 Persona-based workflows 🛠️ Actionable scorecards 🚀 High-impact scaffolding
The full story: cortex.io/post/navigating-th…
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Jim thinks 'Next Year’s Problem' is a joke.
I’ve already scheduled the Jira tickets to auto-assign to him on January 2nd at 8:00 AM.
Merry Christmas, Jim.
#codefreezeseason
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Reflecting on a big week at #AWSreInvent 2025.
One takeaway was clear:
In the AI era, the IDP isn’t optional. It’s the operating system for governing AI velocity on AWS.
AI amplifies risk without standards.
The IDP is now the infrastructure for quality. 🚀
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New Feature Friday🎄Naughty or nice in '25?
Jeff checked his Cortex scorecard:
✔️ AI readiness & governance
✔️ MCP, workflows, data verification
❌ Custom dashboards
❌ Entity relationships not explored
Run your year-end checklist and stay off the naughty list in '26😈➡️😇
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If AI is the answer to everything… why is my pager still going off? 📟
On Jan 22, Ganesh Datta + Kara Gillis unpack the 2026 AI Engineering Benchmark Report, moving past “AI is magic” to “how do we actually manage this?”
Register 👇
cortex.registration.goldcast…
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Are you building a product or a platform for productivity?
Ford didn’t just build cars. He productized the factory.
In software, the platform is the factory: standards and systems that remove tribal knowledge and unlock creativity.
🎧Braintrust episode:
cortex.io/podcasts/why-the-a…
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Before you floor it with AI, check your foundation. 🛑
AI is an amplifier.
Strong fundamentals → faster, better outcomes.
Weak ones → chaos, faster.
You can’t automate bad foundations. You only scale them.
🎧 piped.video/watch?v=ZJ5bvWUQ…
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New Feature Friday 👀
Solutions + Guides to help you solve real eng problems way faster.
✔️ End-to-end use case walkthroughs
✔️ Quick examples for workflows, automation, ML scaffolding, & more
Your docs shouldn’t slow you down — ours won’t.
👉 docs.cortex.io
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AI didn’t just reshape engineering work, it exposed how badly we’ve been measuring productivity. 😅
PRs, LOC, ticket velocity? Useful on paper, useless in the AI era.
The real ?: Are we getting faster and better? 🤔
Rethinking productivity starts here.👉cortex.io/post/metrics-for-m…
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🗣️ “Don’t just pay for tools. Drive adoption. Measure impact.”
At #IDPCON2025, Ganesh Datta reminded leaders: AI Excellence is earned.
The question that matters: Is AI helping you ship better software, or just ship faster chaos?
▶️ piped.video/watch?v=mBsu4Tbb…
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70% of eng leaders are worried about AI’s effect.
At re:Invent, Ganesh Datta broke it down: AI accelerates what you do well—and magnifies what you don’t.
To scale safely: clear ownership, strong testing/SLOs, real security guardrails.
Full talk: piped.video/watch?v=ZZNfJ5Hy…
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📢 AI is speeding you up and increasing your risk.
Teams ship faster but struggle to debug AI-generated code.
Our 2026 Strategy Guide breaks the loop:
Data → Insight → Action.
Read it: cortex.io/ebook/best-practic…
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The $1M Question for engineering leaders in an AI-first world: Where should you focus?
On Braintrust, Google Cloud’s DORA Lead Nathen Harvey was clear: start where it hurts most—then map your delivery lifecycle, commit → prod.
Full episode: piped.video/watch?v=ZJ5bvWUQ…
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🛑 Is your AI investment increasing spend?
At #IDPCON2025, Jonty Bale put it plainly: AI doesn’t streamline chaos — it amplifies it.
Unclear ownership, weak governance, duct-taped processes? Are you actually ready for what AI will speed up?
Full panel: piped.video/watch?v=mtIw_ji7…
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2025 = absolutely crushed. 💥
Cortex Wrapped is here:
🔹 10,040,203 entities
🔹 2,075 Scorecards
🔹 4,358 integrations (AWS, Azure Resources, GitHub, Jira, PagerDuty)
Outcomes: +64% deploy freq, 3–5 days saved, -49% cycle time.
Which stat blew your mind? 👇🔥
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Incidents should not feel like an escape room. But they do.
Who owns what? Where is the runbook? What broke?
Cortex x @rootlyhq fixes this. Rootly runs the incident. Cortex drops the context: ownership, deps, deploys, runbooks, health, Scorecards.
cortex.io/post/cortex-and-ro…
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AI is moving fast. Leaders need to move ready. 🔥
Our message is live on the Vegas Strip #AWSreInvent
See how Cortex turns AI ambition into a measurable, governed strategy.
Find us at Booth 450👀
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AI tools are everywhere, but in 2026 the real edge isn’t “more AI”, it’s adoption, governance, and measurement.
🧪 Speed is easy, quality is hard
📊 Impact must be measured
🧩 No “best” tool, only the right stack
Your 2026 guide 👇
cortex.io/post/the-engineeri…
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AI made everyone faster.
KubeCon reminded us: fast without quality = breakage.
Standards matter.
Scorecards matter.
Platform teams are the new QC.
🚀Speed only works when quality is visible + measured.
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Stop yanking engineers into report-building. 🛑
Just ask your data.
Cortex MCP pulls your SDLC into chat:
• “MTTR last quarter?”
• “What’s blocking modernization?”
• “How is AI changing deploys?”
Clarity on demand.
Meet your AI Chief of Staff 👇
cortex.io/post/ai-chief-of-s…
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🏎️ Speed is fun. Control is leadership.
We’re teaming up with @goteleport , @Carahsoft , @glean , @spaceliftio & @incident_io to bring Speed & Control to F1 Arcade at re:Invent.
On December 2nd - race, connect, and talk AI + quality.
RSVP: speedandcontrol.com/?refid=c…
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Hot take: Your IDP probably isn’t that special. 🌶️
@canva spent years on Backstage before switching to Cortex.
Build = education.
Maintain = forever cost.
The real unlock? Asking the question that decides every build vs buy debate 👇
cortex.io/post/the-most-impo…
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New Feature Friday! ✨
We’ve recently released two updates to level up your DORA game:
1️⃣ DORA Academy Course
2️⃣ DORA Operational Readiness Scorecard
Faster insights. Clear benchmarks. Better engineering.
🎓Try it now: academy.cortex.io/
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Spicy truth 🌶️: If an internal tool doesn’t give you unique leverage, it’s just an #innovationtax.
Canva learned this → stopped building Backstage, moved to Cortex.
Building = education. Owning = cost.
Listen to the Braintrust episode 👇
piped.video/jDgkjBGTVjE
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40–60% of dev time on non-coding work isn’t a slowdown, it’s an innovation tax.
H&R Block cut it with Cortex:
🛠️ One source of truth
⏱️ MTTR 24h → <1h (MTTA <10m)
📈 Days of manual reporting gone
Automate the grunt work → unlock real velocity.
Watch: piped.video/watch?v=_wLdQ5Fx…
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🛑 Stop drowning in dashboards. Start paying for change.
Engineering doesn’t need more data... it needs action.
Our new guide shows how to turn metrics into experiments, standards, and real improvement.
➡️ cortex.io/post/the-pocket-gu…
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AI writes code fast.
It also writes bugs fast. 😪
Catch our CTO Ganesh Datta at AWS re:Invent on how to move fast without breaking things in the age of AI.
📍 Dec 3, 2:30 PM
🎥 Preview below
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AI hype is easy. AI Excellence is earned.
Catch Cortex at re:Invent Booth #450 to see how top teams standardize adoption and measure real impact.
📍 Dec 1–5
🔗 go.cortex.io/reinvent
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New Feature Friday ✨
Meet Magellan, our AI engine that spins up your Internal Developer Portal in minutes not months.
• Connects your stack
• Discovers services
• Maps owners
• Imports metadata
• Unlocks scorecards on day one
Fast. Automatic. Done.
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Great engineering leaders don’t work in silos.
They trade notes. Share wins and mistakes. Measure what matters.
That’s why we built Braintrust by Cortex — an invite-only community for leaders shaping the future of engineering & AI.
🔗Apply to join: braintrust.cortex.io
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Great platforms run on great foundations.
Great mornings run on Waffle House. 🧇
Join Cortex × @WaffleHouse for the Breakfast of Platform Champions
📍Nov 12, 10:15 AM–12 PM at Booth #420.
#KubeCon #PlatformEngineering
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AI won’t fix your flaky tests. It’ll just tell you to rerun them. 👀
Jeff from Cortex on what AI readiness really means and why good engineering hygiene beats AI magic every time. 👇
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✈️ Travel the tradeshow!
Grab your KubeCon Passport at Booth #420, then visit @goteleport (#220), @pagerduty (#455), @traversal_ai (#1750), @ClickHouseDB (#130), and @spaceliftio (#541) to collect stamps. 🧳
Hit all booths in 2 days to win an @away bag + $500 @Delta GC!
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