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Cortex is an internal developer portal built to accelerate the path to engineering excellence. Companies like Docker, TripAdvisor, and Confluent use Cortex to catalog, score, and assign action to improve service quality and velocity, so devs can get back to work that drives the business forward.

Y Combinator

Sequoia Capital

Gokul Rajaram

Manik Gupta

Mathilde Collin

Sam Lambert

Scott Belsky

Brian Emerson

Dheeraj Khanna

Gaetan Castelein

Jack Altman

Peter McKay

Russell D'Sa

Shawn Burke

Sriram Krishnan

Tiger Global Management

Craft Ventures

With OKRs in full swing, the challenge remains: How do you define expectations, drive productivity, and monitor progress?

Join us on March 7th to as we sit down for a Q&A with world-class engineering leaders from Blackstone, Paxos, and more to discuss how they leverage Cortex’s Internal Developer Portal to navigate their end-to-end OKR process and drive engineering excellence.

📍SECOND NYC - Midtown Manhattan
📅 March 7, 2024
🕓 5:30-8:00 PM
Secure your spot & find more event details below ⤵️

Going through a software migration?
Which phase of Quokka are you?

1. Vendor notification email - "This is fine."
2. Post-spamming the whole eng team - "This isn't fine."
3. Post-*IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED* meeting - "This WILL work."
4. At 63% migration after 2 months - "What notification email?"

Notifications are designed to be annoying.

Which is why my phone never leaves Do Not Disturb mode 😇
That works for me, a marketer who rarely faces social media emergencies, but probably not for you, an on-call Engineer.

So how do we make notifications suck less?

🎯 Keep them targeted—to avoid noise for those that aren't affected
🪵 Bundle when possible—to avoid constant attention shift
🥇 Prioritize them—break projects down to bite-size tasks
🧨 Make them actionable—Give explicit instructions

Check out Ryan Garrett's latest blog for more on Cortex notifications and our new On-call Assistant 🤖

https://lnkd.in/g773c8nq

🎯 SREs and DevOps Engineers, we know Production Readiness is a moving target, and its hard to get teams to align on what it means for a release to be ready.

☑  Is your production readiness checklist flexible enough to deal with changing criteria, or are your teams constantly making exceptions to maintain velocity?

Cortex Head of DevRel, Justin Reock, recently interviewed Alina Anderson from Outreach, who has built intentional, scalable Production Readiness plans that are resilient against shifting priorities and cultural growth. 

He summarizes the interview in this blog, and distills some of the most important points that teams can start using immediately. Have a look! ⬇️

https://lnkd.in/gQ-atNwC

We’re very excited to welcome Chase Lancaster to our Customer Engineering Team! 🎉

"Cortex is leading the charge for developer productivity and making waves in the internal developer portal world. I’m thrilled to be joining a fantastic team with a mission that prioritizes developer excellence, quality, and efficiency." - Chase on "Why Cortex?"

If you're interested in joining Cortex, check out our Careers page https://lnkd.in/gM2gFbdC

#hiring #remotework #careers #opportunities #recruiting  #business #development  #team #sales  #engineering

Question of the year: How do you establish expectations, drive action, and monitor progress effectively? 🤔

Join us on February 29th in San Francisco, as we sit down for a Q&A with leaders from world leading engineering organizations such as EarnIn, Life360, and others to discover how they leverage Cortex’s Internal Developer Portal to seamlessly navigate the end-to-end OKR process.

📍25 Lusk - Downtown San Francisco
📅 February 29th
🕔 5:00-7:30 PM

Secure your spot & find more event details below! ⬇

Last week we talked about how Cortex can help you migrate from Backstage while preserving your catalogs.

This week we're here to talk about what you probably thought next—

"But what about vendor lock-in? In this economy????"

You're right. And yes it does deserve 4 question marks.

But not all internal developer portals were created equally...

Check out our list of what to look for in an IDP if things like data portability and hosting options are high on your list. 👀 

https://lnkd.in/gHfCA-St

Deployment frequency—easy to define, hard to measure in a meaningful way.

In his latest blog, Cortex's Head of DevRel, Justin Reock gets into the details of why and how to measure (and improve!) deployment frequency, whether you're using an IDP like Cortex with built-in metric tracking, or working in spreadsheets.

Check it out! ⬇

https://lnkd.in/gbRVfAW5

We’re very excited to welcome Patrick Holcomb to our Marketing Team! 🎉

"I am thrilled to help Cortex continue to grow as the leader in the internal developer portal space! It is super exciting to be joining a team of passionate individuals in their mission to improve the day-to-day operations and productivity of developers & engineers." - Patrick on "Why Cortex?"

If you're interested in joining Cortex, check out our Careers page https://lnkd.in/gM2gFbdC

#hiring #remotework #careers #opportunities #recruiting #business #development #team #sales #engineering

If you're experimenting with Backstage you may be somewhere in this chain of thought:

😍 I love having developer self-service for common workflows
🤔 But I'm not sure why adoption is hanging around 10%
🤗 Maybe if we built a few more integrations and plugins...
😅 But I can't spare 6 FTEs just to maintain what I've already built...

Backstage is a great tool for building developer portals. But it's not getting any easier to scale. So if you've already started down that path, where does that leave you?

Throw away what you've already worked so hard to build? 😦

Not with Cortex's Backstage Migration helper 😏 

Preserve your catalogs, migrate your plugins, and keep building—without the overhead. ⤵ 

https://lnkd.in/g3jxvPYe

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