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+date: 2025-04-26
+title: "Introducing the Cortex Blog: Sharing Our Journey"
+linkTitle: Hello Cortex!
+description: >
+  Welcome to the Cortex blog! We're excited to share updates, best practices, and community highlights around everything Cortex. Stay tuned for technical deep-dives, deployment strategies, and more.
+author: Charlie Le ([@charlietle](https://twitter.com/charlietle))
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+Welcome to the official Cortex blog!
+
+We’re kicking things off here to share updates, best practices,
+technical deep-dives, and community highlights around everything Cortex.
+Whether you're operating a Cortex cluster, integrating it into your observability platform,
+or just starting to explore scalable time-series databases — you're in the right place.
+
+In the coming weeks, you can expect posts on:
+- Real-world Cortex deployment strategies and lessons learned
+- Tips for running Cortex efficiently at scale
+- Deep dives into key Cortex concepts like blocks storage, ruler sharding, and query federation
+- Guides to help new contributors get involved with the project
+- Interviews with maintainers and users from across the community
+- Roadmap insights and upcoming features we're excited about
+
+Cortex has grown a lot thanks to a vibrant community of operators, contributors, and partners.
+This blog will be another space for us to connect, learn from each other, and push the project even further.
+
+Stay tuned — the first technical post is coming soon!
+
+If there's a topic you’d love to see covered, feel free to reach out or open a discussion in our [Cortex community forums](https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/discussions).
+
+Thanks for being part of the journey! 🚀
+
+— The Cortex Team