Founded by Former AWS Operators, Chkk Launches to Help Enterprises Running Mission-Critical Applications on Kubernetes Reduce Availability Risk and Upgrade Safely With $5.2 Million in Seed Funding Led by Sequoia Capital
Summary
Chkk enables customers to enhance Kubernetes resiliency by continuously scanning their environment for configuration mistakes, incompatibilities, deprecations and other key risk factors is nothing short of brilliant. However the realities of operating Kubernetes for mission-critical applications is challenging due to its complex ecosystem of thousands of components and talent is scarce, training is expensive and troubleshooting is reactive, resource intensive and painful. Running mission-critical applications on Kubernetes requires teams to navigate a convoluted maze of open source, vendor-managed and cloud provider add-ons with intricate dependencies and bespoke release cycles. Now we can perform upgrades efficiently and without disruptions, saving us time and resources.Chkks Collective Learning Technology Chkks platform is powered by its Collective Learning technology which lets teams programmatically and collectively learn from each other and comprises: None Availability Risk Signature Database that discovers, curates and codifies new availability risks that have caused errors, failures and disruptions for other teams None Knowledge Graph that learns changes happening across hundreds of Kubernetes projects and models the impact of these changes to discover the safest upgrade paths None Detectors that track thousands of container images, operational tools, configurations and dependencies to catalog what is running in a Kubernetes fleetChkks research team reviews and curates risks to make them actionable.Chkks Founding StoryChkk was founded by Awais Nemat (CEO), Fawad Khaliq (CTO) and Ali Khayam (CPO) who worked together for more than a decade and, most recently, launched planet-scale services for AWS - from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to services that controlled all traffic in/out/across Amazons network infrastructure, including traffic for AWS, Amazon.com, Prime Video, Alexa and FireTV. With over a decade of experience working together to empower global developer communities by ensuring mission-critical services remain available, their technical prowess and true understanding of the challenges that DevOps and platform engineering teams are up against today is unmatched.
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