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Black Friday is 30 days away. Your engineers are calm. Cool. Totally not panicking. (…right?) If “who owns payments again?” or “do we have a runbook for that?” sound familiar, you’ve got work to do. Cristina Buenahora breaks down the three moves to save your sanity before the big day: 🧩 Lock in ownership 🚨 Stress-test incident management 📘 Test your runbooks (for real this time) Read it before the shopping carts start crashing 🛒 → https://lnkd.in/gxs3DPCc

At #IDPCON2025, we celebrated the engineers redefining what excellence looks like — including Leslie Brown, Full Stack Software Engineer at BetterUp. Leslie embodies true engineering excellence — consistently going above and beyond to empower her team and improve how they work every day. She’s been a driving force behind BetterUp’s system health initiative, elevating reliability and visibility across their entire ecosystem of services. And as an early champion of MCP and AI-driven tooling, Leslie is helping shape the future of developer experience at BetterUp. Congratulations, Leslie! 👏

❤️🩹 Every platform team knows this pain: Move too slow, and developers route around you. Move too fast, and you lose control of cost and compliance. Cortex Workflows finally solves that tradeoff. Developers get self-service Kubernetes clusters in minutes. Platform teams get every control and audit trail they need. Speed and safety—no humans in the loop, no 2-day delays. If you’re headed to KubeCon in Atlanta, stop by booth #420 and see it live. ⚡ 👉 Full breakdown: https://lnkd.in/gHJkaz9q

We’re heading to TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on October 28 — and proud to be an official sponsor. ⚡️ AI is transforming how software is built, shipped, and operated. But as development accelerates, visibility and governance often fall behind. That’s where Cortex comes in — helping engineering teams build responsibly, measure impact, and stay AI-ready. If you’ll be at Disrupt, stop by our booth to meet the team, see Cortex in action, and learn how we’re helping companies turn AI from hype into real engineering outcomes. 👋 See you in SF!

💡 New Feature Friday: Engineering Intelligence for MCP What if you could analyze your engineering metrics just by asking a question? Now you can. Introducing Engineering Intelligence for MCP — a new Cortex feature that lets you query your engineering data through AI systems like Claude or Cursor. No dashboards. No BI setup. Just ask: 💬 “What’s driving our cycle time?” 💬 “Show me Q3 deployment trends.” 💬 “Where are our bottlenecks?” Cortex’s AI integration pulls live metrics from your platform — so you can get instant, conversational answers backed by real data. If you’re already set up with MCP, you can start asking away today. If not, setup takes minutes. See it in action 👇

Two weeks ago, we brought 250+ engineering leaders from 20+ countries together for #IDPCON2025 — a day that redefined what engineering excellence looks like. We didn’t just talk about the future of Internal Developer Portals. We shipped it. Here’s what launched at IDPCON 👇 💡 Magellan — Build your entire IDP in minutes AI discovers your services, maps ownership, and builds your catalog faster than you can finish your coffee. 📈 AI Impact Dashboard — Prove the ROI of GitHub Copilot Finally, a way to connect AI adoption with real engineering outcomes like cycle time and code quality. 🧠 AI Chief of Staff — Have strategic conversations with your data Ask real questions like “Which services are blocking our migration?” and get instant, data-backed answers. 🔗 Cortex MCP — Bring your engineering context into ChatGPT and Claude No more context-switching. Query Cortex directly from your AI tools. 📊 Custom Views — Create dashboards that actually fit your org Tailor dashboards to your goals and build a shared language for performance. 🎥 Recordings from every session (including talks from Canva, Skyscanner, Paxos, and more) are LIVE!!!!!! 👉 Read the full recap & watch the recordings: https://lnkd.in/gnTd5wQZ

Building high-quality, secure software in the age of AI requires a new level of integration across the entire development lifecycle. That's why we're proud to partner with Sonar as part of their new Sonar Integration Program. 🤝 By combining the power of Cortex with Sonar's best-in-class code analysis, developers can build better, more secure software without sacrificing speed. Together, we're building a stronger, more integrated future for software development. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g_A53H-X

At #IDPCON2025, we celebrated the engineers redefining what excellence looks like — including Fred Mare, Principal Engineer at Xero. ⚡ Fred has been an incredible champion for Cortex at Xero — driving cultural change, expanding adoption across teams, and turning platform standards into tangible business impact. Thanks to his leadership, Xero now uses Cortex to block deployments and ensure every service meets production readiness standards. Fred even took the stage at IDPCON to share how their team is achieving engineering excellence at scale. Congratulations, Fred! 👏"

🍳 Introducing Cortex Kitchen: where platform engineering meets the chef’s table. Each post in this new series is a recipe for something practical you can build, automate, or integrate in Cortex — complete with ingredients, prep steps, and a dash of AI magic. Today’s dish? Vibe-coding an identity provider integration. When your source of truth for teams doesn’t come from one of Cortex’s built-ins, you can roll your own. In just ~3 hours, Jeff Schnitter went from “what’s the Lattice API?” to a fully automated daily workflow syncing users and teams into Cortex. 👨🍳 A dash of Python 🤖 A pinch of Claude.ai ⚙️ A sprinkle of GitHub Actions This one’s for the builders, tinkerers, and platform chefs who like to get their hands dirty (and their integrations clean). 🍽️ Serves your entire IDP. 👉 Read the full recipe: https://lnkd.in/gK4aezUr

Members of our Developer Platform Team recently attended #IDPCON2025 in New York City, joining industry leaders shaping the future of internal developer platforms. Our team — Tyler Emery, Gavin Lam, Deniz Yildirim, and Phil Yoo — dove into conversations on how platform engineering can boost developer productivity, strengthen reliability and compliance, and align technology with business goals. It was an inspiring day of ideas, collaboration, and lessons on building and scaling IDPs from both technical and people perspectives. A big thank you to Cortex for hosting the event and bringing together such a passionate community driving innovation in platform engineering. 🚀 #PlatformEngineering #IDPCON #DeveloperExperience #TechInnovation #PricelineTech