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Stop pushing broken code to CI: Wire Chunk sidecars into agent hooks

AI agents can write code faster than any developer. But for most teams, the feedback loop hasn’t kept pace. The agent generates code, pushes it to CI, and minutes later a full pipeline run catches a simple linting error or a failing unit test. By then the agent has moved on. Getting back to a working state means rebuilding context from scratch and burning tokens just to fix something that should never have shipped in the first place.

Cortex | Workflows Run API

Cortex Workflows can now be triggered externally via the Workflows Run API (beta). In this video, Solutions Architect Jeff Schnitter walks through how to trigger a workflow from the Cortex CLI, pass context via a JSON file, and run synchronously or asynchronously. Requires CLI v1.15.0+ and the "runnable via API" toggle enabled on the workflow. To enable the Workflows Run API in your workspace, contact your CSM.

Can DevOps work in regulated industries?

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Matt Bailey, DevOps consultant and founder of Merge Ready. Matt shares lessons from helping large regulated organizations in finance, healthcare, and government transform their DevOps practices, and explains why DevOps is an outcome rather than a toolchain.

How a unified data model improves feature flag rollout decisions

Consolidation is reshaping the experimentation and feature management landscape. Tools are merging, and partnerships are being repackaged as platforms. But marketing a unified experience is not the same as building one. Right now, engineering leaders and product managers are reassessing whether the tools they depend on are built for the long term. It’s irrelevant which vendor has the most products.

I thought I invented this. Then I opened TikTok

The video was a product manager who claimed she worked at Netflix. (Her claim, not mine. I have no way of verifying it, and I can’t find the video now.) She was talking about how Netflix now requires every PM to vibe code a working prototype before presenting an idea to engineering. Show, don't spec. Build the thing first. I sat there for about ten seconds being mildly annoyed.

Uber blew its annual AI budget in 4 months

Uber burned through its entire annual AI budget in under 4 months. Here's what went wrong — and what every engineering org should be doing instead. The data: 80% more code is getting pushed with AI… but only 18% of AI-written code actually ships to production. That's not a productivity story. That's a spend problem. If you're scaling AI tooling without real-time monitoring and guardrails, you're Uber.

Konstruct product updates: Global resources, MCP support, and smarter permissions

May has been one of our busiest months yet for Konstruct. Across three releases, 0.5, 0.5.1, and 0.5.2, we've shipped some of the most requested platform-level changes since we launched: a unified model for sharing resources across organizations, native support for AI-driven workflows via MCP, a completely redesigned API keys experience, and a cleanup to how permissions actually work in multi-org environments. Let's walk through what shipped and why it matters.

The options within Test Data Management - Enterprise, DIY or Redgate

Compliance Without Compromise: Test Data Management That Finally Fits You know you shouldn't have sensitive production data in test environments. But every time you look at fixing it, the options feel impossible: enterprise tools that cost six figures and take months to implement, or DIY scripts that sort of work until they don't. So, it stays on the backlog.

Every pilot is ready for engine failure: are your engineers? w/ Hamed Silatani (Uptime Labs)

Every pilot who's never had an engine failure is still ready for one. The same can't be said for most software engineers facing their first major incident. Hamed Silatani, co-founder and CEO of Uptime Labs, and former Head of Reliability Engineering at IG Group, has spent two decades watching engineers learn incident response the hard way: alone, under pressure, with no training.

The Compliance Gap in Test Data Management

Compliance Without Compromise: Test Data Management That Finally Fits You know you shouldn't have sensitive production data in test environments. But every time you look at fixing it, the options feel impossible: enterprise tools that cost six figures and take months to implement, or DIY scripts that sort of work until they don't. So, it stays on the backlog.