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🍳 Cortex Kitchen: Skeletons in the Portal 👻 While reviewing our Cortex instance, Jeff Schnitter found 60(!) active API keys...most admin-level, none with expiration dates. Spooky. What started as a “quick fix” turned into a 5-course meal: custom entities, Workflows, GitHub Actions, even 1Password integrations. Cool? Sure. Necessary? Not so much. A few shell commands and a sprinkle of Cortex CLI later, we had the actual solution. Moral: Just because Cortex can do everything doesn’t mean it should. Sometimes the simplest recipe wins. 🍲 🍽️ https://lnkd.in/g_BuP5FZ

🎃 Feature Friday: The Scariest Thing on Call It’s 2AM. You’re paged. It’s not your service. And nobody knows who owns it. That’s the real Halloween horror story. Our new AI Ownership Model fixes that ✨ automatically ✨ surfacing unowned services and recommending the right owners. No guesswork, no ghost services, no middle-of-the-night chaos. Cortex brings ownership back to every service, before things go bump in the night. 👻 🎥 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gwAMPjQb

🚀 Exciting news! Cortex and Sonar are deepening our collaboration with a new formal partnership to bring code quality and security directly into the developer experience. Sonar has long been one of the most popular integrations in Cortex. Now, together, we’re helping engineering teams: ✅ Monitor and improve code quality and coverage ✅ Embed best practices into everyday workflows with Cortex Scorecards ✅ Give leaders a bird’s-eye view of reliability and security across teams This partnership is about more than visibility — it’s about empowering organizations to continuously raise the bar for excellence. Read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/guQHsJBM

We’re headed to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 🎉 From November 11–13, meet the Cortex team in Atlanta at Booth #420. We’ll be connecting with platform and infrastructure leaders who are building better developer experiences and showing how Cortex helps teams scale faster with an Internal Developer Portal that actually drives adoption. Whether you’re deep in platform engineering or just starting your IDP journey, we’d love to connect. See you in Atlanta. 🧠

Two golden paths. One powerful platform. In the latest Building Platforms with Kaspar Von Grünberg, Cortex takes stage alongside Humanitec to show how platform engineers can detect, remediate, and extend their platforms without slowing developers down. 💡 Cortex Scorecards detect an over-provisioned RDS instance and surface a policy violation—complete with cost savings and automated remediation steps. ⚙️ Cortex Workflows trigger a PR that right-sizes the database through Humanitec’s orchestrator—no developer intervention required. 🧱 Golden Path #2: add a new capability (S3 buckets) once in Terraform and make it instantly self-service for developers through Cortex. This is what end-to-end platform automation looks like: detect → recommend → remediate → extend. 🎥 Watch the full episode with Kaspar: https://lnkd.in/gnWqzshP

Black Friday is 30 days away. Your engineers are calm. Cool. Totally not panicking. (…right?) If “who owns payments again?” or “do we have a runbook for that?” sound familiar, you’ve got work to do. Cristina Buenahora breaks down the three moves to save your sanity before the big day: 🧩 Lock in ownership 🚨 Stress-test incident management 📘 Test your runbooks (for real this time) Read it before the shopping carts start crashing 🛒 → https://lnkd.in/gxs3DPCc

At #IDPCON2025, we celebrated the engineers redefining what excellence looks like — including Leslie Brown, Full Stack Software Engineer at BetterUp. Leslie embodies true engineering excellence — consistently going above and beyond to empower her team and improve how they work every day. She’s been a driving force behind BetterUp’s system health initiative, elevating reliability and visibility across their entire ecosystem of services. And as an early champion of MCP and AI-driven tooling, Leslie is helping shape the future of developer experience at BetterUp. Congratulations, Leslie! 👏

❤️🩹 Every platform team knows this pain: Move too slow, and developers route around you. Move too fast, and you lose control of cost and compliance. Cortex Workflows finally solves that tradeoff. Developers get self-service Kubernetes clusters in minutes. Platform teams get every control and audit trail they need. Speed and safety—no humans in the loop, no 2-day delays. If you’re headed to KubeCon in Atlanta, stop by booth #420 and see it live. ⚡ 👉 Full breakdown: https://lnkd.in/gHJkaz9q

We’re heading to TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on October 28 — and proud to be an official sponsor. ⚡️ AI is transforming how software is built, shipped, and operated. But as development accelerates, visibility and governance often fall behind. That’s where Cortex comes in — helping engineering teams build responsibly, measure impact, and stay AI-ready. If you’ll be at Disrupt, stop by our booth to meet the team, see Cortex in action, and learn how we’re helping companies turn AI from hype into real engineering outcomes. 👋 See you in SF!

💡 New Feature Friday: Engineering Intelligence for MCP What if you could analyze your engineering metrics just by asking a question? Now you can. Introducing Engineering Intelligence for MCP — a new Cortex feature that lets you query your engineering data through AI systems like Claude or Cursor. No dashboards. No BI setup. Just ask: 💬 “What’s driving our cycle time?” 💬 “Show me Q3 deployment trends.” 💬 “Where are our bottlenecks?” Cortex’s AI integration pulls live metrics from your platform — so you can get instant, conversational answers backed by real data. If you’re already set up with MCP, you can start asking away today. If not, setup takes minutes. See it in action 👇