Cortex and the Scalability Problem

Matt also hosts a popular go based podcast called Go Time. Do you know of any good go based podcasts? There's J.S. Party, but I think that's for JavaScript. So that's interesting with learning about cortex and how this is solving that scalability problem. As from an sort of open source point of view, why didn't the cortex thing just go into Prometheus? "I personally think it's because the politics projects or the politics team didn't really want it cortex"