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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.
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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/assessme…

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.

@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/co…

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. ⚡️

🕹️ 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?ut…

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-excell…

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.

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: 🧵

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? 🧵

The world is drowning in code. We’re pretending it’s progress. 🧵

In 2026, the cost of writing code is trending toward zero. We have infinite scale and AI agents. Yet, we’re barely moving 20% faster.

The truth? Code was never the bottleneck.

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?

youtube.com/watch?v=wn6nMy…

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: youtube.com/watch?v=ZZNfJ5…

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-an…

🏎️ 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=cortex

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.

✈️ 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!

Everyone’s talking about AI—but what does adoption really look like for eng teams?

Join Minh Pham at IDPCON for a roundtable on AI rollouts: what works, what’s hype & how to win buy-in.

🚨 Few spots left: idpcon.com

If Taylor’s in her Show Girl Era, we’re in our IDP Era. ✨

No pyrotechnics, no backup dancers, just a platform that makes engineering teams faster, safer, and more efficient.

From CQL to scorecards to automated workflows, we help you ship like a headliner. 🎤💻

🧩 What is Cortex MCP?

Founding engineer, Aditya Bansal, walks through how our Model Context Protocol connects AI tools like Claude to real-time service context.

🧠 Instant answers
⚙️ Easy setup
🧪 Now open source

🔗 docs.cortex.io/mcp