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This week on New Feature Friday, we’re highlighting two new releases that make it easier than ever to understand and improve your DORA performance: DORA Academy Course A guided learning experience that shows you how to use DORA Metrics and Cortex together to drive better engineering outcomes—without the data chaos. DORA Operational Readiness Scorecard An out-of-the-box template that benchmarks each service against DORA standards, giving teams an instant snapshot of where they stand and where to focus.

In this preview of his AWS re:Invent session, Cortex CTO & Co-Founder Ganesh Datta breaks down how AI coding assistants are transforming software development, and what high-performing teams are doing to keep speed and reliability in balance. You’ll learn: If you care about AI, engineering velocity, or building sustainable systems, this is a must-watch. Full Session: December 3 at 2:30 PM Learn more about Cortex: go.cortex.io/reinvent.

Everyone wants to move faster with AI. But are you ready for it? In this Feature Friday, Jeff from Cortex shares how working with AI tools like Claude helped him write better code — and why true AI maturity starts with solid engineering hygiene. You’ll learn: “With great power comes great responsibility… and better tests.".

(00:20) The founding journey: from zero to one hundred customers(01:13) Day one: Building the first version of the service catalog(04:25) Why speed is a startup's only superpower(09:54) The mindset shift to enterprise-grade reliability and scale(13:06) How quality becomes a competitive advantage(14:46) High-leverage early decisions: writing tests and supporting on-prem(17:38) Balancing speed and quality in the age of AI(21:21) How AI will shift, not replace, engineering roles(26:53) Advice for engineering leaders working with founders.

In this video, discover how Cortex automates production readiness so your services are always secure, reliable, and compliant—without the manual overhead. Instead of relying on slow, static reviews, Cortex turns production readiness into a continuous, automated process powered by real-time data and smart scorecards.

Welcome to the future of developer onboarding with Cortex. In this demo, you’ll see how Cortex helps new engineers ramp up faster by giving them instant access to everything they need—context, ownership, best practices, and workflows—all in one place. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, onboarding becomes a structured, data-driven, and empowering experience. Developers can explore your ecosystem confidently, follow golden paths, and start delivering value immediately—reducing ramp-up time from months to days.

In this video, discover how Cortex’s DORA Metrics Dashboard helps teams measure, analyze, and improve software delivery performance using the industry-standard DORA framework — deployment frequency, cycle time, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (MTTR).

In this video, discover how Cortex transforms incident management by automating key processes, reducing response times, and providing real-time visibility into your engineering ecosystem. With seamless integrations and AI-powered insights, Cortex helps teams go from reactive to proactive, improving reliability and accelerating recovery.

How do you balance speed and quality when your customers are counting on you? What does it actually take to build a culture of reliability? And how should engineering leaders think about AI when it's changing everything about how we ship software? On Braintrust, Ganesh Datta, CTO and Co-founder of Cortex, sits down with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical leaders who've been in the trenches—the ones who've made the hard calls, shipped through the chaos, and built teams that actually work.

Meet Cortex’s AI Chief of Staff, your new strategic partner for engineering leadership. This isn’t just another dashboard. It’s an intelligent advisor that connects your engineering data, scorecards, and DORA metrics to give you real-time, actionable insights. What you'll learn in this video: Cortex’s AI Chief of Staff brings clarity and confidence to decision-making, helping leaders transform meetings into strategic, data-driven conversations that drive continuous improvement.