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Cortex gives engineering teams full visibility and control over their services, from ownership and standards to service history and production readiness. Our goal is to help teams stay aligned and move faster so they are ready for whatever is ahead. The reality for any engineering team is that developers spend the most of their time in their IDE, not their IDP. And while developers love the context Cortex provides, they don’t love context switching.

Developer productivity is top of mind for all engineering organizations. As AI accelerates software development, leaders face a fundamental question: Are we truly building faster, or just building more? And more importantly, are we building the right things, and building them well? In this new era, speed alone isn’t enough. High-impact teams must ensure their work aligns with customer value and is delivered with exceptional quality.

Engineering excellence is more than code quality or tool choice. It’s about aligning engineering with business goals, improving systems systematically, and building a culture of continuous progress. In a recent episode of the Tech Lead Journal podcast, Cortex CTO and co-founder Ganesh Datta shared lessons from his engineering career.

When launches are delayed or incidents occur, it’s often due to a breakdown in production readiness. Maybe documentation is outdated. Maybe no one’s on-call. Maybe a critical dependency isn’t even known. The truth is, production readiness shouldn’t be a manual checklist. Production readiness needs to be as dynamic as the software being evaluated.

Hi, I’m Bradley. I’m the Director of Sales Engineering at Cortex, and this is how curiosity has shaped my approach to sales engineering and building technical partnerships that drive engineering excellence.

According to Statista, over 85% of large enterprises and nearly 50% of small to midsize businesses will have adopted microservices as part of their software architecture. The shift is clear: organizations of all sizes are moving away from monolithic applications toward microservices to accelerate development cycles, improve scalability, and support continuous delivery. But this architectural freedom comes with a hidden cost, which increases operational complexity.

Hi, Riley Durham here. I’m an Event Marketing Manager and Social Media Marketer at Cortex, and I’m here to share how a culture of autonomy and excellence has opened doors for career growth at Cortex. Before joining Cortex, I worked in the DevSec tool space, wearing multiple hats managing events, demand generation, social media, and direct mail marketing. That variety gave me a solid foundation in full-funnel marketing, but it was joining Cortex that really accelerated my growth trajectory.

On a recent episode of The Product Manager podcast, Cortex CEO Anish Dhar joined host Hannah Clark to challenge a growing narrative: that software engineering is obsolete in the age of AI. His take? Engineering isn’t disappearing, it’s maturing. At Cortex, we work with some of the most forward-thinking engineering organizations at companies like Canva and Fanatics.

To really make an impact, platform engineering teams need to start thinking like product managers. That means deeply understanding their users, measuring outcomes instead of outputs, and tying everything they do to real business value. Organizations who care about total cost of ownership and fast time to value are adopting this mindset.

The best engineering teams ship quality software quickly, but doing that consistently requires more than just speed. It requires careful attention to reliability, security, ease of maintenance, and developer experience. The Engineering Excellence Summits were designed to create a community of engineering leaders looking to connect with others facing similar challenges, share approaches that are working, and learn what “better” can look like.