Earlier in our career, Tiffany and I were dropped in the middle of the “Container Wars,” facing dozens of new entrants to the space every month. We both chose the company because we knew they were part of the movement toward cloud-native microservices . They were well-positioned as an early innovator, and this late stage cloud and data infrastructure startup had raised more than $250 million from top tier VCs like Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures.