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Meet the Cortex Founders

What’s it like to build the future at Cortex? In this video, our founders share what makes Cortex a unique place to work—from our builder-first culture to the high-impact problems we’re solving every day. We’re a team that moves fast, supports each other, and is deeply committed to raising the bar for developer experience across the industry. At Cortex, you’ll find a culture that values autonomy, creativity, and a shared drive to push boundaries. We’re building tools that help some of the world’s top engineering teams ship faster and more confidently—and we’re just getting started.

GDPR Log Management: A Practical Guide for Engineers

GDPR compliance for logs can be tricky—especially when you're trying to maintain system visibility and protect user data at the same time. For SREs and IT teams, it’s a balancing act between staying on the right side of privacy laws and not losing the context you need to troubleshoot. This guide walks through practical ways to handle personal data in logs, set up retention rules that make sense, and stay compliant without creating unnecessary friction.

Colo is not dead. | Uplink Podcast | Episode 4

Colo is not dead. Forget cloud-only strategies—AI is driving a resurgence in colocation and a rethink of what hybrid infrastructure really means. AI has flipped the script on how we think about digital infrastructure. In this episode, we’re joined by TierPoint SVP Don Schuett to explore how the surge in AI demand has fundamentally reshaped the data center industry—impacting everything from hardware design to real estate strategy.

Introducing token rotation for access tokens

As part of Atlassian’s ongoing investment in security, we’re excited to introduce token rotation for access tokens in Bitbucket Cloud. Building on recent updates, like adding expiration dates to access tokens, this new capability allows you to rotate your tokens, which generates a new secret while maintaining the same access and scopes.

Creating and testing a RAG-powered AI app with Gemini and CircleCI

Have you ever asked an AI model a question and received an outdated or completely off-base response? I’ve been there too. The problem is that most AI models rely solely on their pre-trained knowledge, which becomes obsolete over time. This is where RAG can help: RAG is a hybrid AI technique that combines the advantages of retrieval systems and generative models. It bridges the gap by bringing in real-time information from external knowledge sources to improve the generation quality.

How to Connect ELK Stack with Grafana

In today’s distributed systems world, you need clear visibility into logs, metrics, and everything in between to keep systems healthy and reliable. That’s where the ELK Stack and Grafana work well together—each solving a different part of the observability puzzle. ELK handles the heavy lifting of log collection and processing. Grafana adds intuitive dashboards and powerful visualizations.

A Closer Look at Docker Build Logs for Troubleshooting

In the world of containerization, understanding what's happening under the hood during image builds can mean the difference between smooth deployments and frustrating debugging sessions. Docker build logs are your window into this process, offering crucial insights that help you optimize builds, troubleshoot errors, and maintain robust container infrastructure.

DB-Engines shares Q1 2025 database industry rankings and top climbers: Snowflake and PostgreSQL trending

Oracle maintains its top-ranking spot; persistent growth trends from PostgreSQL and Snowflake highlight Q1 2025 rankings analysis. DB-Engines is today sharing Q1 analysis of the database industry rankings and top climbers. While Oracle has maintained its top-ranking spot as the most popular database for several years, we are seeing persistent growth trends from PostgreSQL and Snowflake, which has broken through to sixth place for the first time this quarter, overtaking Redis.