Cortex Fast-Track

Solve Service Ownership in 7 Days

Cortex has helped teams at Netflix, JP Morgan, Xero, Nubank, and more unlock engineering excellence through their Internal Developer Portals. What do all these teams have in common? They started with clear ownership: the foundation for accountability, self-service, and sustainable standards.

Now, we’ve taken the best of what works and built a focused, 7 day fast-track program to help your team launch a fully operational service catalog with accurate ownership across your ecosystem.

What the week looks like

Connect key integrations: Git, identity and team systems, & more
Import your team structure: Load organizational hierarchy and map team metadata
Bring in services: Populate your Cortex Catalog with discovered entities from your tools
Run the Ownership Report: Leverage Cortex’s AI-powered model to suggest accurate service owners
Confirm and assign owners at scale: Accept recommendations in bulk or fine-tune as needed
View team-level insights: Unlock visibility in Engineering Intelligence to understand team footprint and gaps

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Testimonials

Shaun McCormick

“We know if an engineer gets pulled out of what they’re doing, it takes 30 minutes to re-engage, Cortex lets us reduce noise and keep our team focused on the highest priority work.”

Principal Software Engineer

Kurt Christensen

“More and more we think of Cortex less as a product and more as a platform on which we are building all of our internal intelligence for engineering.”

Senior Engineering Manager

Javier de Vega Ruiz

"One of the biggest improvements we've seen since implementing Cortex is in our Mean Time to Restore- which we reduced by 67%. Being able to quickly find service information is a small operational change that has enormous impact."

Chief Software Engineer

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FAQs

Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) are the engineering system of record. They use connection to all tooling to provide golden paths for new software builds, and ensure continuous alignment to standards of excellence.

From services and APIs to Kubernetes clusters and data pipelines—IDPs eliminate “swivel chair” for devs by centralizing the information they need to build, deploy, and maintain healthy software. LetsGetChecked, BigCommerce, and Grammarly see results like decreased incident frequency and duration, and increased in deployment velocity with Cortex's IDP

You have lots of tools for developing software, and likely many more to ensure the health of that software. But despite having an abundance of data, it’s harder than ever to answer questions that require inputs from multiple sources—including who owns what, what it’s made of, and what needs to happen to ensure alignment to standards of readiness and excellence. This has led to longer ramp time, slower deployments, and more incidents that take longer to resolve. Cortex unites data from all of your existing tools to:

Reduce time-to-find in onboarding as well as development and trouble-shooting
Ensure alignment to standards of excellence, and accelerate initiatives of quality and consistency
Abstract away effort once spent gathering context, searching for standards, and waiting in approval queues

To learn more about how an IDP can help your team, take a look at our blog post: What is an Internal Developer Portal?

Cortex’s fully custom software catalogs connect to identity providers like Okta, Google, and Workday to automatically track software ownership through team, title, and personnel changes. No more orphaned software means software stays in alignment with standards you define.

To learn more about driving software ownership at your organization, check out this blog.

Cortex draws on data from all of your connected tools to drive alignment to any standard of production readiness you define. Set owners and SLOs, require runbooks and rollback plans, create caps for maximum vulnerabilities or tickets, or ensure connection to the latest code coverage and observability tools—all in one place. Turn standards into templates and workflows that make it easy to build and quick to deploy production ready software. And when code is updated, ownership changes, new tools are adopted, or old packages hit end-of-life, auto-alert owners of action needed to bring software back into alignment.

To see this firsthand, check out the Cortex Production Readiness Tour!

By centralizing the tools, templates, and tasks developers need to build healthy software, Cortex reduces context switching across applications, and eliminates rote work. Reduce time-to-find when onboarding or during an incident by automatically surfacing all relevant context from tools like Pagerduty, Git, Jira—or even homegrown sources and tools. Reduce fire drills with always-on standards of excellence that make it easy for devs to keep software perpetually secure and reliable. And get devs out of approval queues for common tasks like secrets allocation and service deployment.

To track how software health impacts productivity take a tour of our Eng Intelligence solution, or check out this blog.

Backstage is a framework for building internal developer portals. As such, It requires dedicated resources to stand up, build and test integrations/plugins, and support engineers through troubleshooting and use case expansion.

Cortex is a SaaS IDP with 50+ pre-built integrations, the ability to overlay custom and continuous software scoring, self-service actions, and a mechanism for alerting when software requires attention—all things you need to increase adoption and reduce maintenance time. Plus, you can customize your experience with our industry-first plugin framework.

If you're trying to avoid pulling engineers away from their core work, but still looking for the same flexibility, Cortex's Internal Developer Portal is where you should start. For more details, check out our Cortex vs Backstage comparison page.

Join us on November 6th

Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.

Monday, November 6, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM CT
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Guests will enjoy hand-crafted cocktails and elevated recreations of midwestern favorites at the original billiards room. The Game Room features classic games including pop-a-shot, skeeball, billiards, shuffleboard, and more.

Who Should Attend

This event is suitable for technology leaders, information security decision makers, and platform leads including, but not limited to: CXO (CTO, CIO, Chief Digital Officer), VP/Director of IT; mid-level information security management (Senior Security Manager, IT Security Manager, IT Manager), technical information security practitioners (Security Engineer, Messaging Architect, IT Analyst), VP/Director of Platform Engineering, Enterprise Architect, Cloud Architect, Platform Architect, Chief Architect, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, Platform Owner, Director.

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Why ownership is the foundation of your IDP

Ownership is the hardest, and most important, problem to solve when building a high-performing engineering culture. Without it, initiatives stall, incidents drag on, and no one knows who’s responsible.

With Cortex, you can solve ownership at scale in minutes, thanks to our AI Ownership Predictions model. The Ownership Report makes it easy to visualize ownership gaps, assign owners, and get to a clean state fast even across hundreds or thousands of services.

Once ownership is in place, your Catalog becomes actionable. Teams can confidently adopt Scorecards, run migrations, enforce security standards, and drive toward engineering

What you’ll walk away with

A populated and organized Cortex Catalog
Full ownership coverage across services
Team-level Engineering Intelligence visibility
The foundation to create Scorecards, Workflows, and Initiatives
Confidence in your IDP’s ability to scale with your org

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Solve Service Ownership in 7 Days

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What are Internal Developer Portals?

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How does Cortex help improve developer productivity?

How is Cortex different from Backstage?

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