Cortex

👋 Hello from PlatformCon (last week)! The Cortex crew held it down in NYC, talking all things engineering excellence, golden paths, and Internal Developer Portals. We met teams focused on: 🔍 Improving visibility ⚙️ Enabling self-service 🧠 Driving adoption of standards 🚀 Finally solving ownership (for real) If you missed us there, don’t worry! IDPCON is around the corner. Join us October 9 in NYC for the only in-person event built just for internal developer portals. 🎟️ idpcon.com

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Alex Williams, Principal Software Engineer at Skyscanner If your org is juggling five different “excellence” programs with five different playbooks, this session is for you. At IDPCON, Alex will share how Skyscanner replaced fragmented standards with one lightweight governance model that actually works. ✔️ Three maturity levels that tie policy to business priorities ✔️ A unified scorecard set for all teams ✔️ A self-service workflow to evolve standards without custom tooling Whether you’re starting fresh or untangling a mess, you’ll leave with the questions to ask, a framework to build on, and a path to real engineering excellence. 🎟️ Join us October 9 in NYC → idpcon.com

🔦 Feature Friday: AI-Powered Ownership Recommendations Keeping ownership up to date shouldn’t feel like a scavenger hunt. Cortex makes it easy to assign service owners in bulk without clicking through a dozen stale dashboards. Here’s what’s new: ✅ Instantly see which entities are missing ownership ✅ Get smart, AI-powered team recommendations for each one ✅ Accept ownership suggestions one-by-one or in bulk ✅ Filter by entity type to move even faster This upgrade turns a previously painful process into a 5-minute win. Less friction. More accountability. Way better visibility. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gwAMPjQb

What do Shell, Klaviyo, Teladoc Health, Etsy and STOXX have in common? They all joined us this year for the Engineering Excellence Summits. We hosted five invite-only events where platform teams and engineering leaders got real about what it takes to ship high-quality software at scale. We dove into topics like: ✅ Balancing autonomy with consistency during hypergrowth ✅ Modernizing production readiness and ownership ✅ Migrating legacy infra while shifting operating models ✅ Building better platforms. Faster, safer, smarter The roundtables were 🔥 The conversations were honest. And the energy? Proof this community is just getting started. Missed the Summits? We’ve got something even bigger coming up. 🗽 Join us in NYC for IDPCON, the only in-person event dedicated to Internal Developer Portals. 🎟 https://idpcon.com/

We’re in a new era of developer productivity. Developers want autonomy. Execs want accountability. And somehow, everyone’s expected to move faster and raise the bar on quality. That doesn’t happen just because you’re tracking DORA metrics. I joined The Product Manager podcast last week to talk about what engineering excellence actually looks like in 2025 and why traditional metrics fall short. Too many teams chase surface-level stats like deploy frequency and call it a day. But output ≠ impact. The teams that win? They build real structure. Real context. Real alignment between engineering work and business outcomes. They understand that visibility without service ownership is useless. DORA metrics? That’s a report. Not a strategy. Give it a listen: https://lnkd.in/eqSMeV4t

Platform people: move fast. ⏳ Early bird pricing for IDPCON ends July 1st. 🎟️ $99 now → $199 after. Join 500+ engineers, platform PMs, and DevEx leaders for the only in-person event built for Internal Developer Portals. ✔️ 10 sessions ✔️ 11 roundtables ✔️ 15 speakers from companies like Blackstone, H&R Block, and Skyscanner If you’re building, scaling, or replacing an IDP you want to be here. Register now → idpcon.com

Your platform isn’t a project. It’s a product. And like any good product, it should: 👂 Listen to users 📈 Drive measurable outcomes 🚀 Deliver real value (fast) At Platform Engineering Day, Jabed Amin shared why platform teams need to think like product managers. Because: 🚫 Golden paths don’t matter if no one walks them. 🚫 infra shipped ≠ impact delivered. Read it here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gspwKwxS

Ever wondered what an Internal Developer Portal actually looks like when it works? Come find out at IDPCON. 😏 IDPCON is the only in-person event dedicated entirely to Internal Developer Portals, and it’s built for the people actually building them. 10 sessions. 15 speakers. 11 roundtables. 💬 Real talk from real builders (Blackstone, Skyscanner, Paxos & more) 📦 Playbooks you won’t find on LinkedIn 🧠 Frameworks to level up your DevEx strategy 🚀 Workshops that go from “aha” to action 🗓 October 9 | NYC 🎟 Register now at idpcon.com

🔐 New Feature Friday: GitHub Vulnerabilities in Cortex Security shouldn’t be shelf-ware. Now, developers get live visibility into open vulnerabilities directly from their Code & security tab. Each issue includes severity, descriptions, and direct GitHub links. Engineering leaders can track security posture across services using scorecard tiers like bronze, silver, and gold. Cortex pulls severity data from GitHub and uses CQL to build actionable metrics. Want to drive accountability? Create an Initiative with a deadline. Cortex notifies service owners and tracks progress toward your security goals. Security, simplified. Cortex gives you the visibility, structure, and automation to build with confidence. Try it now 🚀 https://lnkd.in/gVtwjg3B

🎾 Grass courts. Great vibes. Serious game. Team Cortex took over the iconic West Side Tennis Club for an afternoon of friendly competition, big laughs, and even bigger serves. Of course, we had to make a sizzle reel... because if we’re serving up the best Internal Developer Portal, you better believe we’re serving on the court too. Want to work with a team that brings this kind of energy to everything we do? 🚀 We’re hiring: cortex.io/careers