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Introducing the Cortex AI Assistant (now in Slack)!

Mention @Cortex in any Slack channel the Assistant has been invited to, public or private, and get grounded answers pulled from your Cortex data. Questions can be as simple as "who owns payments-api?" or as analytical as "what's driving our incident trends this quarter?" The Assistant pulls context from all across Cortex, including ownership, Scorecards, Initiatives, on-call, dependencies, and Eng Intelligence metrics, and holds context across a threaded conversation.

Todd's Tenth Rule of certificate automation

I’m an old engineer at heart. Many of my ideals were formed by Joel’s Things You Should Never Do, Fred’s No Silver Bullet, and Brian’s Big Ball of Mud. One of my favorites was Greenspun’s Tenth Rule: The joke isn’t really about programming languages. It’s about a pattern: certain problems have a shape, and no matter how you approach them, you end up building the same solution, in the same order, until you arrive at the same messy place.

The 2026 software supply chain security gap

AI-generated code is now nearly universal. Enforcement is not. That gap is where your software supply chain is most exposed. Cloudsmith's CEO Glenn Weinstein, Co-Founder & CTO Lee Skillen, and VP of Product Alison Sickelka join Product Marketing Manager Meghan McGowan to unpack the 2026 State of Artifact Management report – a survey-based look at how AI development is reshaping the threat landscape, what organizations are getting wrong, and what the highest-leverage fix actually looks like.

Split your Bitbucket Pipelines workflows across multiple files | Bitbucket Blitz | Atlassian

Building and maintaining a 2000+ line bitbucket-pipelines.yml can be a lot of work. Now you can split large bitbucket-pipelines.yml files into multiple, smaller pipelines.yml files. These smaller files can be composed via shared pipeline syntax to replicate the functionality of the original bitbucket-pipelines.yml file. They can also be shared with and reused in other repositories.

Accelerating AI Agent Development on Google Cloud with JFrog MCP Registry

Developers building agentic AI on Google Cloud have powerful infrastructure at their fingertips: Gemini 3 for reasoning, Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) for orchestration, and a rapidly expanding ecosystem of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that connect agents to data and tools. So why are so many teams still waiting weeks to ship their first agent to production?

Why GitOps for MongoDB Matters: A Case for Harness DB DevOps | Harness Blog

Most development teams today build everything around Git, and deploy with GitOps principles. Code sits in version controlled environments, changes go through PRs, and deployments are handled through modern CI/CD. That part is pretty standard at this point, especially when using a modern DevOps platform like Harness.

ShipTalk Season 4 Finale: Engineering Excellence at AWS re:Invent

Welcome to the Season 4 finale of the Ship Talk podcast! Join special host Thomas Dockstader and several industry leaders at AWS re:Invent to discuss the intersection of AI and software delivery. The following is a series of interviews with partners, customers, and engineering leaders on the front lines of AI transformation. Don't miss the "Ship It or Skip It" segment, where our guests give their rapid-fire takes on everything from AI code reviews to the four-day work week.

Now in Harness DB DevOps: Percona Toolkit for safer MySQL schema changes | Harness Blog

If you've ever run an ALTER TABLE on a busy MySQL table in production, you know the feeling. The change is small. The risk isn't. Long-running table locks, queued writes, application timeouts, replication lag, a five-minute migration that turns into a half-hour incident review. We're shipping an integration that takes that anxiety out of the loop. Harness Database DevOps now supports Percona Toolkit for MySQL as part of Liquibase-based schema management.

Ask Cortex anything, right from Slack

The Monday morning thread. Someone asks who owns checkout-service. Someone else asks what changed in the Production Readiness Scorecard last week. A third person wants to know if the Kubernetes migration is blocking the launch next Thursday. The answers exist. They live in Cortex. But getting them into the thread means someone stops what they're doing, opens a tab, finds the data, and pastes it back. By the time they do, the conversation has moved on.