Opbeat launches out of beta to help developers make less buggy code
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Opbeat, a startup that helps developers manage their infrastructure with cleaner code, formally launched out of beta Wednesday. While developers have a lot of help today with tools like GitHub, [company]Docker[/company] and [company]Heroku[/company] helping them code faster and create applications quicker, once the codebase gets deployed to Amazon Web Services or a cloud server, developers are left on their own to make sure the code is still able to function correctly in a live environment, said Makwarth. “No one is better than fixing errors than the one who built the code.” Users can install a small software module into their codebase that allows Opbeat to be notified whenever developers push out a new release to GitHub. So far, the over two-year-old startup — which maintains an office in Copenhagen, Denmark and one in San Francisco — has generated investment from big-time Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Instagram’s co-founder Mike Krieger, Facebook’s co-founder Andrew McCollum and Spotify’s former CTO Andreas Ehn. The startup currently has $2.7 million in investment from a seed funding round led by Balderton Capital in July of 2013; it plans on doubling its ten-person staff over the next twelve months, said Makwarth.