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Tempest 2024: A Year in Review

A Critical Review for Platform Teams

Yena Oh

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Dec 24, 2024

Since emerging from stealth in July, it’s been an absolute whirlwind at Tempest. We’ve had the pleasure of learning alongside some of the world's most important organizations and sharing what we’re building at every step. There’s nothing quite like seeing a vision take shape, and we're grateful to have a chance to pause and look back at everything we've done over these last six months.

Product Achievements

This is where the magic happens. From brainstorm and planning sessions to coding, deploying and refining, these numbers tell the story of the raw effort poured into Tempest across our small but mighty team.

  • Linear tickets completed: 894

  • Internal product demos: 61

  • Number of cycles: 26

  • Lines of code: 1,369,812

  • Pull requests: 2,830

  • Biggest product win of the year: Enabling automated end-to-end testing

Go-to-Market Highlights

This was a big year for us as we came out of stealth in July and entered general availability last month. Here’s how we’ve brought Tempest into the spotlight and started building our audience.

  • Website iterations: 2

  • New product plans: 4

  • Content words written: 22,937

  • Minutes spent interviewing platform, infrastructure, and security teams: 2,760

  • Biggest go to market win: Launching to GA with our seed funding announcement

Fun Extras

  • Company off-site: ✅

  • Number of Slack messages sent: 83,043

  • Our chattiest employee: Eric Skram

  • Hours of team collaboration: 1,921

  • Cups of coffee consumed: ♾️ ♾️ ♾️

And that’s just the start! Every milestone, from crafting new features to sipping infinite amount of coffee, has helped shape Tempest into what it is today. We can’t wait to keep the momentum going and share even more with you in the coming months. Stay tuned, this storm is just getting started. 🌪️

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