We are excited to announce our $35M Series B, led by
@IVP
with participation from
@Sequoia
, Tiger Global, and
@craft_ventures
. 🎉 Thank you to our incredible team, investors, partners, and customers who have been on this journey with us!
Remote work is here to stay - here's 6 tips you can use to build a great onboarding process and make your engineering team more cohesive and productive as a result. 🧵
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#remotework
#onboarding
🎉 We’re so excited to welcome Mike Connell to the Cortex team as the founding member of our sales team!
👋 If you’re interested in joining our incredible team, check out our open job positions
#team
#job
#hiring
#sales
#engineering
#microservices
This Thanksgiving 🦃 we're thankful to be on this journey to help engineering teams build better software at scale, we started Cortex over two years ago & we couldn't be where we are today without all of you - thank you to our team, investors, customers, & supporters 😊
If your team is using
@snyksec
, you should check out our official integration! Grade the quality of your services based on open Snyk vulnerabilities and quickly add context (ownership, on-call, docs, etc) to them.
#microservices
#security
#SRE
The energy ⚡️ at
#kubeconeu
has been through the roof. It’s been fabulous to meet customers, make new friends, and collaborate with fellow
#cncf
enthusiasts.
We’ll be at our booth all day tomorrow (SU44), come say hi 👋🏼!
Despite security often being an engineer's after-thought, it is increasingly critical to the success of software products. We feel strongly that developers should be encouraged to write code with security in mind & to build processes that mitigate risk.
SRE teams are integral to keeping systems up & running + creating systems that mitigate risk, automate manual operations, & integrate alerting.
But what SRE principles can we evangelize and adopt across engineering teams? How do we adopt the SRE mindset? 🧵
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Why is
#service
#ownership
important? How should teams self-organize to achieve it? Where's the best place to start? We've got the answers to these questions in our blog post below:
"Working with the team at Cortex has been my best experience. Not only is everyone super hard-working & talented, they’re also incredibly humble & positive!" - Aditya Bansal (Founding Engineer)
#hiring
#remotework
#engineering
Dealing with microservice sprawl is challenging. Each microservice tends to be built in it’s own way – differing in frameworks, deploy pipelines, project structure & even monitoring. In this 🧵, we explore why consistency is important & how to ensure it.
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🎉 We’re super excited to welcome Anshul Shah to the team as our Chief of Staff.
👋 Our team is continuing to grow, if you’re interested in joining Cortex, check out our job openings ().
#hiring
#remotejobs
#remotework
We're honored ✨ to have Cortex included as a finalist for the
#DevOpsDozenAwards
🥳 Please vote for us in the Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider category. Voting closes Dec. 31 🥇
Been wanting to start a data science project but not sure how to? Check out our latest blog post, based on the UK government's
#cookiecutter
template 🍪
Happy Halloween 🎃 !! This year, we're dressing up as the scariest thing we could think of 😱 - a giant microservice tracking Excel spreadsheet with over 100 rows that hasn’t been updated in a few months - aka what inspired us to create Cortex!
2021 was a fantastic year for Cortex - from raising our Series A, working with new customers, and releasing so many new features. We’re super excited for what’s to come in 2022 and to continue working to make Cortex even better!✨
While we're a fully
#remote
company, meeting people in-person is an easy way of building trust & bonds 100x faster. We fly out the whole team to a single location every 3 months for a team offsite.
This past week, we were in Miami 🥳
#hiring
#remotework
The move from a monolith to a microservices/service-oriented architecture can be daunting. In this post we'll be going over five things to keep in mind that we’ve learned from helping teams navigate this transition.
Every Friday, our team spends 30+ minutes hanging out on a Zoom call, playing games like Skribbl and sharing a personal win from the week. Want to learn more about working at Cortex? Check out this blog post:
#hiring
#remotework
#remotejobs
Keep seeing our tweets about
#Microservices
but don't actually understand what they are? Watch this video 🤣 😂
... and check out Cortex to avoid this situation 😅
Monitoring a distributed system with hundreds of microservices can be a challenge - the 4 golden signals can help you stay focused & make sure you’re covering & alerting on the kind of performance issues that actually impact your end-users.
The 4 golden signals are:
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The differences between
#DevOps
and
#SREs
are not always understood. While they are closely aligned and share similar goals, their roles diverge significantly.
@gsdatta
wrote a quick overview for
@InformationWeek
“Cortex has an incredibly robust set of
#integrations
that are very easy to set up.” - Mike Mclannahan (Director of Engineering @ EquimentShare)
Learn more about why our customers love Cortex
#SRE
#devOps
#microservices
Check out our co-founders,
@gsdatta
and
@nikhilunni94
, chatting with
@tfir_io
about how Cortex helps engineering teams build a culture of reliability and quality
We've added
@AzureDevOps
as an integration to help teams set standards for development maturity using repository details in Scorecards!
Check out the full list on our website:
Don't see the
#integration
you're looking for? DM us.
One of our engineers, Aditya, will be speaking at
#cdcon
in June. Interested in attending? Use code CdCon22AMB20 & save 20% off your registration. Register at: .
We hope to see you there! 🥳
The Cortex Query Builder lets you query data that spans across your entire tech stack, giving you insights into previously impossible questions like “do services without owners have more outages?”
#SRE
#devOps
#microservices
Stop making developers reinvent the wheel - scaffold new
#microservices
in Cortex that follow all your standards using service templates shared across your organization.
"It’s not often that individuals in a company feel like they have a voice heard by top leadership, but at Cortex we all have a seat at the table. The future is bright & we’re just getting started!" - Mike Connell (Founding Sales Person)
#hiring
DevOpsDays Seattle Gold Sponsor
@GetCortexApp
is helping engineering teams drive adoption of microservices best practices. Come meet the team and learn more at their booth July 19-20!
Looking for some
#Halloween
👻 costume inspo?
How about dressing up as one of the scariest 😱 things that can happen to you during the work day? That's right - the famous blue screen of death 🟦
#Engineering
Feeling overwhelmed by your
#microservices
? Struggling to keep track of them all?
Let Cortex help you & your team explore, understand, & operate your microservices
The best place to get started:
1. Audit alerts
2. Encourage a Postmortem culture
3. Assign ownership
4. Automate what you can
5. Create checklists
6. Define target metrics
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