November 2018 Summaries

The CHAOSSEARCH team has raised a $9M Series A funding co-led by .406 Ventures and Glasswing Ventures, with participation from Stage 1 Ventures, to build the future of log management and analytics. The company aims to provide companies with the ability to search, query, and visualize historical log and event data within their own S3 infrastructure with unlimited retention of data. This will dramatically reduce the size, complexity, and cost of traditional logging solutions. With this new funding, CHAOSSEARCH plans to expand its Engineering and DevOps teams and bring in a go-to-market team for investments in Sales, Marketing, Community Evangelism, Solution Architecture, and Customer Success. The company is committed to serving its customers and making great engineering decisions, focusing on product performance, scalability, features, and overall benefit to the organization.

This year's AWS re:Invent conference saw significant growth, with nearly 50,000 attendees compared to around 6,000 in 2012. The event expanded to multiple hotels along the Las Vegas Strip and featured announcements such as Amazon EKS, a de-facto standard for deploying applications across clouds; Nitro Hypervisor, an improved EC2 service with high-performance instances; Network Load Balancer, designed to handle millions of requests per second with low latency; Cross Region VPC Peering, making it simple to connect multiple regions together. The conference is expected to focus on enterprise adoption and security, building on recent announcements such as Guard Duty and Inspector. With the growing popularity of Kubernetes in the Enterprise, Amazon is likely to play a significant role in this space. The event also promises to be exciting for attendees, with opportunities to network and learn from experts like the CHAOSSEARCH team.