Kubernetes is the defacto solution for production-ready container orchestration in 2019. Organizations of any size are able to take advantage of Kubernetes’ quick setup, feature-rich API, and growing community to deliver value quickly and at scale. Since Kubernetes is central to many infrastructures, properly monitoring your Kubernetes clusters is critical. In this post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors each piece of your Kubernetes cluster automatically.

Once you’ve hired a software engineer, it’s easy to feel like the recruiting process is over. However, the first few days and weeks of your new engineer’s experience are critical to their long term success and happiness at your startup. In this last part of our series on hiring software engineers as the CTO of a startup, we’ll talk about how we onboard software engineers at Blue Matador and the insights I’ve gained in this part of the CTO experience.

When you find a software engineer who passes your code test, you’ll want to bring them in for an in-office interview. In this part of our series on hiring software engineers as the CTO of a startup, we’ll talk about Blue Matador’s approach to the in-office interview and the insights I’ve gained in this part of the CTO experience.

Once you’ve got software engineers applying for your job opening, you’ll need to determine who is good enough to interview, and who is not. Additionally, you’ll want to make sure the time investment made by you and your team has a high return on investment. In this part of our series on hiring software engineers as the CTO of a startup, we’ll talk about Blue Matador’s approach to the screening process and the insights I’ve gained in this part of this CTO experience.

A great job listing is critical to attracting the sort of talent you’re looking for. Including the right information and setting good expectations about the type of position you’re offering not only turns away unqualified applicants, but can also excite the type of person you’re seeking.

At some point, your startup will scale to the point that you need additional help building your product, and as the CTO, it’s up to you to find, hire, and onboard new software engineers. This process is intimidating because engineering hires are critical to the success or failure of your startup. In this series, we’ll talk about Blue Matador’s approach to the hiring process as well as the insights I’ve gained as CTO. This first post will cover when and who to hire.

AWS Lambda is one of AWS’s most popular cloud services. It allows serverless applications to be built by dividing up an application into functions that can be triggered by changes in your system. Since they are critical to the health of your application, properly monitoring Lambda functions is a top priority for most teams. In this blog post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors Lambda functions automatically and without configuration. We will cover the following topics:

AWS Elastic Load Balancing is one of the most widely used of Amazon’s cloud services. In many AWS stacks, an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) will be involved in almost every single request that customers make to your application. Since they are critical to the health of your application, properly monitoring ELBs is a top priority for most teams. In this blog post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors Classic Elastic Load Balancers automatically and without configuration.

Amazon CloudFront is a CDN that allows you to serve content from edge locations without having to actually stand up infrastructure around the world. However, since it’s a managed service, you have less visibility with traditional monitoring tools. As such, it becomes even more important to take advantage of the available monitoring tools in AWS. In this post, we’ll explain how to use CloudWatch to monitor CloudFront and what is important to watch.

The round was led by Peterson Ventures, with participation from new investors Prelude Venture Fund, SaaS Ventures, and Forward Venture Capital and participation from existing investors Trilogy Equity Partners and Cobre Capital. It has been amazing to see the positive feedback we’ve received from our customers as we work to make the first fully automated infrastructure monitoring and alerting solution.