INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
As companies continue to expand the number of cloud-based tools and apps that are used to run their businesses, DevOps continues to grow as
a field of IT to help developers meet those demands
In one of the more recent moves, Honeycomb.io, which developers use to observe code on live apps, microservices and other processes in order
to identify where something is not working, is today announcing that it has raised a Series A of $11.4 million to expand its sales and
Honeycomb has now raised $26.9 million.Paul Graham, the co-founder of Y Combinator, once famously described how a startup (Stripe) grew in
part by building a tool (in payments) that was useful and needed by other startups
Honeycomb itself is embodiment of that model, too: the story is one of engineers building tools that engineers need
best fix it, rather than spending time trying to identify where the actual problem is.Without a performance monitoring product on the market
When she decided to leave Facebook and work further on the idea, she teamed up with Yen (now the CEO) to build Honeycomb
(The internal tool that Majors built as an infrastructure engineer, she said, is also still being used, and you can see more on the
structure behind how Honeycomb works here.)Honeycomb has resonated with developers at both smaller and very giant tech companies (that
prefer not to be named), with the high correlation between those who trial and those who end up buying the product speaking both to the
the board with this round
establishing itself as a leader in real-time observability
