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Meet Cortex: The Engineering Operations Platform

Standardize. Visualize. Drive Change. Cortex is the leading Engineering Operations Platform that helps organizations define what "good" looks like and empowers teams to reach those standards. From tracking DORA metrics to driving large-scale migrations, Cortex provides the visibility and tools necessary to maintain a high-performing engineering culture. In this video, you’ll see how to: Set the Standards: Create custom Scorecards (like Operational Maturity or DORA Metrics) with automated rules integrated directly from tools like PagerDuty, Incident.io, and GitHub.

How to Measure & Improve Engineering Ops (with Cortex)

Is your engineering org actually getting better, or just shipping more? In this overview, we dive into how leadership and platform teams use Cortex to move beyond manual audits and spreadsheets. Learn how to transform "tribal knowledge" into a data-driven culture of engineering excellence by centralizing visibility and automating operational standards. Key Highlights: Mission Control: Using the Service Catalog to map dependencies and ownership without the Slack-pinging or Wiki-hunting.

KubeCon Europe 2026: AI Is Shipping Code Faster Than Orgs Can Govern It

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 recently brought the cloud native community to Amsterdam. We were there all week bouncing between the booth, a Braintrust event with engineering leaders from across the community, and more hallway conversations than we can count. One talking point dominated the week: AI is shipping code faster than most engineering orgs can govern it. It also became clear that we weren't the only ones talking about this challenge.

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.

QA, AI, and the return of the adversarial mindset

The best QA engineers are always asking themselves (and others around them) what might break. When engineering teams shifted to agile delivery, that mindset largely moved out of dedicated roles and into the background. Automated testing took over the repetitive work, developers owned quality end-to-end, and velocity improved. What didn't carry over was the habit of looking at a feature and asking how a real user, an edge case, or unexpected load might expose it.

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.