Cortex

“"It's an enabling platform," says Mit. "I've always been the kind of person who likes to help people."”

“"I'm able to go to my boss and say, 'Hey, I've got your enterprise reporting right here,'" says Mit.”

“"We pulled that data into Cortex so that they could just see what it was directly," Mit says. "It saved them so much hassle."”

“"That's a big deal for us because we're a small team," Mit notes. "Now we've got almost all of them set up and we're pulling all of the data in."”

“"Our company is full of big brand name tools that we've brought in that everyone's proud of, but nothing glued them together before we got Cortex."”

“The finish line isn't merging a PR, but ensuring software you own actually works in production. Collecting telemetry, setting up alerts, and owning the fix. Cortex brings all of the inputs for this work into one space so devs can really take ownership over what they build, without slowing them down.”

“In the case of our Kubernetes migration, the ability to drive timely action cut our projected timeline from 24 months down to 16, enabling us to capture savings and productivity benefits 8 months earlier than expected.”

“With Cortex, we set a year-long goal of hitting 25 deployments per week. Within months, we went from 17 per week to 32.”

“There's a gamification element in Cortex where teams can compare themselves to one another. Anyone can see straight away who's improving, who's falling behind, and who needs more support.”

“One of the biggest improvements we've seen since implementing Cortex is in our Mean Time to Restore; which we were able to reduce by 67%. Being able to quickly find up-to-date service information, and have requests immediately prioritized is a small operational change that has enormous impact.”

““With Cortex, we’re not just managing services better; we’re fundamentally changing the way we work and collaborate to support the healthcare organizations who rely on us every day.””

““Now we’re having meaningful conversations every day around service maturity, code quality, and reliability because Cortex makes the rules and standards visible to everyone.””

““The Slack integration couldn’t be clearer or more helpful. Every Monday, teams see exactly where they stand and how they can improve.””

“Our biggest issue was that we lacked centralized visibility into our repositories and ownership structure, which made fast decision-making incredibly difficult.”

““Cortex shaped how we deliver software. It gave us a foundation to move faster and build the right way from day one.””

““Once you commit to a better system and get teams using it early, you see how much confusion and manual effort it eliminates.””

““Be open-minded. Some of Cortex’s most valuable features weren’t obvious to us at first. Once we embraced the platform, it helped shape our entire approach to developer experience. My favorite part is being able to bring all of our data into one place.... you can log in and see a lot of contextual information that you would have had to otherwise go click around searching for.””

““Now, when someone runs a Cortex workflow, they finish with everything they need, ready to click and deploy. What used to take an engineer days to accomplish is now done in less than three hours. It’s not only reducing time to deployment, but making the culture change that we deploy from day 1 and keep deploying while developing the service.””

““Some of the biggest fans of the Catalog are non-engineering teams. It’s the one place they can go to find answers.””

“Whether you're a general manager at Xero or an engineer, you're looking at Cortex as your source of intelligence about how we're building software. It's a massive leap forward for us.”

“This is the angle we look at Cortex from right now. We can utilize it so much more and improve the developer experience so much more. So that's what we're going for.”

“If I had to choose between hiring one more person or purchasing Cortex, it would be an easy choice: Cortex definitely makes a bigger difference.”

“The scorecard was able to give me a report of who already has the latest version and will survive the shutdown of the container registry, and more importantly, who will not. I was able to dial down on who were the biggest offenders, who were slow to upgrade, and who I needed to help.”

“If we did not have anything at all, administrative methods would be our only choice. I would be writing to all the managers telling them if they didn't do what we asked, they wouldn't be able to deploy.”

“"This is one of the coolest things we've built. Being able to query Cortex through ChatGPT or Slack and get ownership or repo links instantly is game-changing."”