About CortexRidge
Built by engineers who carry the pager.
Fifteen years building and running database platforms — now distilled into software your team can use today.
AWS Oracle EnterpriseDB OpenSCG Tessell
01 The record
What we built
and ran.
-
01 From scratch
Managed PostgreSQL. Every layer ours.
Control plane, provisioning, failover, backup and restore — built by the people who would have to run it. Not integrations layered onto an existing service — the platform itself.
-
02 On call
Monitoring that scaled. Migrations that landed.
Monitoring shipped to production and watched there, not handed off. Migrations across versions, vendors, and cloud boundaries — planned, rehearsed, and landed in production.
-
03 In public
Two PostgreSQL books. Years of open source.
A PL/pgSQL developer guide and a high-performance cookbook, written for working DBAs and migration engineers. Open-source patches and community talks came alongside, contributed back to the ecosystem.
02 The lesson
Database problems are
system problems.
A specialist working in isolation can make a system slower. Tuning shifts the bottleneck, the application pushes back, and the stack goes down anyway. The fix is end to end — application, database, and the load between them.
2,000 10,000
transactions per second, for a stock-market platform. Same hardware. No new instances. A rethink, end to end.
03 The product
So we built
CortexBolt.
The engineer we could never hire enough of: it watches your data and systems, reasons about what it sees, and acts on what you approve. The loop we ran by hand for fifteen years — running on its own.
Dinesh Kumar
Founder
Co-author of Procedural Programming with PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL and the PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook.
Database operations. Running themselves. Answering to you.