Your Portal to Engineering Excellence
Cortex is the enterprise Internal Developer Portal built to accelerate the path to engineering excellence. Abstract away complexity in your platform to ensure ownership, enforce standards, and unlock developer self-service, in weeks—not years.
How it works
The path to engineering excellence starts with access to the right information. Quickly connect your entire ecosystem to make it easy to identify owners, understand state, drive action, and measure outcomes.
Accelerating engineering excellence at world class organizations
Amanda Jackson
“Walk away from a spreadsheet for a minute, and it’s already stale. With Cortex, we never have that issue. I can just trust that information is always up to date, and we can leave devs alone that have already done what they need to do.”
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.”
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.”
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."
Accelerate any engineering excellence initiative
Spend less time building the basics, and more time capturing value. Learn how Cortex is driving measurable business outcomes for 100+ enterprise customers.
Get new developers up to speed, faster
Automate onboarding tasks like account creation or secrets allocation. Speed information discovery with Catalogs, Plugins, and CQL. Make status clear and action obvious with Scorecards, Catalogs, and the Developer Homepage.
Shave months off major framework changes
Define your ideal state for software or teams, and use live feeds from connected tools to track progress against any dimension. Target alerts to only those developers that need to take action to bring software or actions into alignment, speeding transition time.
Set standards and stay aligned
Define production requirements for services, resources, APIs, models, and more. Supply templates to reduce risk and time to code, and track on-going alignment to standards with real-time scorecards and reporting that devs can also monitor themselves.
Find owners, fix faster
On-call information is only as good as ownership information, accessibility of context, and presence of runbooks. Ensure always-up-to-date ownership and enforce incident preparedness best practice to centralize critical information and cut response time.
Unlock self-service that stays on the rails
Make it easy for developers to build better from the start, without slowing them down. Software scaffolding, workflow automations, and one-click approvals ensure consistency across teams while reducing rote work for developers that need to move quickly.
Ditch the chaos, keep your catalogs
Define workflows that spin up accounts and allocate secrets. Make it easy to find information about anything. And make action obvious.
Actually measurable benefits
How are you quantifying the impact of your Internal Developer Portal? Cortex Eng Intelligence makes it easy to track metrics that accrue to real business and developer value like deployment frequency or SLO attainment. For everything else, check out our Total Economic Impact Report.
A different kind of DevEx
Information access is the first step towards a positive developer experience. Cortex abstracts away the work required to connect all your tools so developers spend less time finding and fixing, and more time building—no matter how complex your platform gets.
A true engineering system of record
To ensure adoption, your IDP must model data in a way that matches business logic. Cortex does the heavy lifting of that process for you, while preserving the customization you need.
Always-on standards that stick
Passive software standards get ignored. Continuously assess software and teams for progress towards your ideal state. Build via GUI or GitOps—no custom scripts required.
Self-service that stays on the rails
Eliminate toil without losing track. Centralize developer workflows across other tools, and add one-click templates and approvals to keep gates from becoming bottlenecks.
FAQs
Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) are the engineering system of record. They use connections 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.
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Building An RFP For An Internal Developer Portal
An Internal Developer Portal is a core foundation of modern engineering organizations. They generally cover service and resource cataloging, scorecards, integrations, and more. Since IDPs are so critical to your engineering process, selecting your IDP requires rigor and a well-crafted RFP to evaluate your options. Read on to learn more.
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