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In its product, Cortex provides users with services and resources catalogs, as well as with scorecards to see how well they are performing against benchmarks for production readiness and development quality, hubs for every team to help them understand who owns what and improve collaboration, as well as, most recently, a new scaffolding service that allows teams to standardize their service architecture and set up repeatable processes for spinning up new ones.<\/p>\n

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta also noted that, increasingly, engineering leaders are pushing their developers to care more about the quality of their code and following standards. \u201cThat\u2019s where we took a step back and said: We have all this stuff in the catalog, but how do we take that and help you go on this journey to get to a place where now developers are thinking about this stuff on their own?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s also what the team plans to focus on now. With all of this visibility into ownership and services, the team has already built out more tools to allow developers to take action right from the portal, starting with the scaffolding service. The focus now is to expand on this and help developers manage more of their ecosystem from within the developer portal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what you have [in Cortex] is a really opinionated perspective on how people should eventually arrive at a well-done Internal Developer Portal,\u201d said Cack Wilhelm, general partner at IVP and now a Cortex board member. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s enough to attack scorecards or scaffolding or incident management or engineering, metrics and productivity. I think what you\u2019re really looking at here is a culture change within an organization and you can\u2019t just piecemeal that. What we loved about Anish and Ganesh is their vision \u2014 having a really comprehensive, opinionated stance on how an organization might go about doing that and then the ability \u2014 through product \u2014 to get a company to that sort of Nirvana state.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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