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Building a dev platform like a product: Inside The New York Times with Sneha Rao and Ahmed Bebars

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Sneha Rao, VP of Product, and Ahmed Bebars, Principal Engineer, both from The New York Times Developer Platforms team, to discuss what it means to build and operate a developer platform at scale across a complex media organization.

Your platform team's name is holding it back

When you stood up your platform team, you probably spent more time on the org chart than on what to name it. Reporting lines, headcount, scope of the first charter, those felt like the real decisions. The name was administrative. Something to put in Slack and the directory and forget about. That was the most consequential decision you made. The name you give a platform team isn't just branding. It's a scope declaration.

How to Ship AI-Generated Code to Production

AI writes code. But shipping to production? That still takes a software engineer. In this GitKon talk, Chris Kelly from Augment Code breaks down what it actually means to use AI-assisted development to write production-ready code, not vibe code. If you've been using AI coding assistants and wondering why the output doesn't always make it past code review, this is for you. Chris covers: Key takeaway: The engineers who will thrive aren't the ones who let AI do everything. They're the ones who know how to review, direct, and architect around what AI produces.

Q1 2026 Product Update: Harness Pipeline | Harness Blog

The first quarter of 2026 introduces eight major pipeline orchestration enhancements that accelerate development, simplify validation, and strengthen governance. Execute pipelines from Git tags for immutable versioning, leverage AI to author OPA policies without Rego expertise, and gain complete visibility into queued pipelines across your account.

7 Best Practices to Improve Digital Employee Experience in Modern IT Environments

Digital employee experience isn’t just a nice to have anymore. In hybrid, SaaS heavy IT environments Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is where productivity can live or die. Employees don’t care whether the culprit is Wi‑Fi connectivity, CPU/RAM load, poor battery life, or a misbehaving cloud app. They just know work got harder.

Q1 2026 Product Update: Harness Continuous Delivery & GitOps | Harness Blog

The first quarter of 2026 introduces AI-powered continuous verification that eliminates configuration overhead, expanded deployment platform support including Azure Container Apps and enhanced Windows capabilities, and GitOps workflow improvements that align with how teams actually ship software.

Introducing Harness Release Orchestration: Enterprise Release Management, Reimagined | Harness Blog

Enterprise releases spanning multiple services, teams, and environments demand more than spreadsheets and manual coordination. Harness Release Orchestration provides a unified framework for modeling, automating, and tracking complex releases with complete visibility from planning through production deployment.

Founder keynote: Human-AI collaboration at scale | Team '26 | Atlassian

It’s time to reimagine teamwork for the AI era. Join Atlassian leaders to hear how human-AI teams collaborating in one system of work will propel your entire organization forward. About Atlassian: Behind every great human achievement, there is a team. From medicine and space travel to disaster response and pizza deliveries, we help teams all over the planet advance humanity through the power of software. Our mission is to help unleash the potential of every team.

Why database ownership is so fragmented in 2026 - and what you can do about it

In today’s cloud-driven, multi-platform environments, answering the simple question - who owns that database? - is no longer straightforward. As teams adopt open-source tools and spin up cloud services on demand, ownership is becoming fragmented across development, operations, and data teams. This shift is accelerating innovation but also creating new challenges in visibility, control, and accountability, as Grant Fritchey explains.