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A Tour of Cortex

Get a guided tour of Cortex, the Engineering Operations Platform built to help teams improve operational maturity and reduce developer friction. This video covers the core features of Cortex: the Catalog, Scorecards, Initiatives, engineering metrics, and Workflows. Each one maps to the three things any great EngOps platform needs to do: provide clarity, drive improvement, and remove friction. Ready to see it in action? Visit our website: cortex.io Book a custom demo: cortex.io/demo.

Lowering PUE: Building Envelope Efficiency in Edge Computing Units

Edge computing is changing how we handle data across the globe. Smaller units closer to the user need smart cooling to stay efficient. Compact systems handle big tasks in small spaces without needing giant server rooms. Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) tracks how much energy goes to IT versus support. Improving the outer shell of units helps keep costs low. High efficiency is a goal for every tech site, and it saves money.

The Observability Gap: Why Monitoring Data Should Drive Tests

Most teams already know a lot about production. They have dashboards. They have traces. They have alerts. They have enough telemetry to explain what happened after an incident and enough graphs to argue about it for the rest of the week. Then they go to test a change and start from scratch. The integration tests hit a hand-written mock that returns {"status": "ok"}. The load tests replay a CSV somebody exported months ago. Staging is close enough to production right up until it matters.

Automating Employee Offboarding: Simplicity Just One Click Away

Employee offboarding looks simple from the outside. Someone gives notice, HR processes the paperwork, and IT handles the rest. In practice, "the rest" is where things get complicated. A single departure can touch dozens of systems, and the handoffs between them (between HR and IT, between tools, between teams) are exactly where access stays on longer than it should, steps get missed, and audit findings show up months later.

Announcing the Next Chapter for Bitbucket Pipelines Runners

In December 2025, we announced our intention to introduce pricing for self-hosted runners so we could provide stronger support and keep investing in new features and ongoing improvements. You’ve told us that having a free option is important. As a result, we’re introducing a new operating model that lets you continue using self‑hosted runners for free with the option to upgrade to a paid premium runners tier as your needs grow.

In a world built by code, design lives between the lines

Design is the art of solving problems; open source makes that visible. In this video, Open Source Designer Eriol Fox dives into the pragmatic world of design and usability within the FOSS ecosystem. We discuss how product designers and user researchers are driving long-term software sustainability through accessibility and smarter design.

Feature Friday: How to Track GitHub Copilot Adoption with Cortex Scorecards

Are you getting the most out of your GitHub Copilot investment? In this week's, Cortex Engineer Aaron Warrick demonstrates how to turn "AI adoption" from a buzzword into a measurable metric. Using the CQL (Cortex Query Language) Query Builder, you can now pull real-time GitHub Copilot data into your service maturity scorecards. In this video, we cover: How to use the new AI Tools Analysis in the CQL Query Builder.

Rob Zuber on quality, metrics, and what it means to move in the right direction at CircleCI

In this episode of Braintrust, Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI. Rob shares how the industry's move away from dedicated QA has cost teams more than they realize, and explains how AI is changing what good software quality actually looks like.

The Secret to 10x Faster API Testing #speedscale #apitesting #api #automation #production

Stop living in the past. See how to use real production traffic to automate your API testing with zero code changes. Replay real-world patterns in your CI/CD and catch regressions before your users do. Learn more: speedscale.com.