Building a Community: How Cortex Went from a Vendor Project to a Community
summary
Cortex moves from vendor-only to multi-company project by changing hard facts: docs and a website appear in 2019, contributors jump to 75 unique monthly contributors (Jan 2021) and maintainers span 5 companies, public adopters list 15+ while ~25 companies run it in production. Development simplifies: a single-binary mode removes Cassandra/Dynamo requirements in favor of object storage, adoption climbs, community calls run every three weeks and maintainers commit 10–20% time to outreach.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:57The Cortex Project • Horizontally Scalable Multitenant Prometheus
- 5:02Docs are important • Create a website for the project
- 9:57Cortex single binary and blocks engine!
- 17:18Make some noise! • Write regular blogposts and share them on social media (Twitter) New features, releases, performance improvements!
- 21:07Closely? • Weekly calls to see if things are working well.
- 27:19End user conference talks! • End user talks maintainer / vendor talks.
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