Tom Wilkie: Cortex: open-source, horizontally-scalable, distributed Prometheus
Channel: Prometheus London User Group
Date: 2017-06-25

"In this talk we'll present a solution for a horizontally 
scalable, distributed Prometheus implementation dubbed "Cortex" (née Frankenstein). 

Cortex turns a lot of the Prometheus architectural assumptions on its head, by marrying a scale-out PromQL query engine with a cloud-native storage layer based on DynamoDB. Cortex not only add horizontal scalability in terms of ingest rate and active timeseries, but also adds virtually infinite data retention and some interesting opportunities for query optimisation."

Bio: Tom is a Software Engineer at Weaveworks. Previously he was at Google as a Site Reliability Manager for Google Analytics. Before that he was Founder, VP Eng and CTO at Acunu, and before that a Software Engineer at XenSource. In his spare time, Tom likes to make craft beer and build home automation systems.