CTO and Founder of Boundary Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Cliff Moon, CTO and Founder of Boundary, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

Prior to Boundary, Moon was a lead engineer for Powerset - a natural language search engine acquired by Microsoft - where he was instrumental in the design, implementation, launch, and operation of many of the company’s production services. Moon is an active contributor to open source projects, developing the first open-source implementation of Amazon Dynamo and originating the Dynamo Framework.

Boundary provides a Unified Monitoring solution for Web-Scale IT that allows customers to monitor their entire application infrastructure from a single solution and improve application availability and performance. It is designed to deal with the challenges stemming from modern highly distributed, cloud based applications by combining high frequency performance metrics collection and analysis with its unique understanding of the real-time application topology.

Boundary is privately held, based in Mountain View, CA and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Adams Street Partners and Triangle Peak Partners.

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CTO and Founder of Boundary Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
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Cliff Moon, CTO and Founder of Boundary, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

Prior to Boundary, Moon was a lead engineer for Powerset - a natural language search engine acquired by Microsoft - where he was instrumental in the design, implementation, launch, and operation of many of the company’s production services. Moon is an active contributor to open source projects, developing the first open-source implementation of Amazon Dynamo and originating the Dynamo Framework.

Boundary provides a Unified Monitoring solution for Web-Scale IT that allows customers to monitor their entire application infrastructure from a single solution and improve application availability and performance. It is designed to deal with the challenges stemming from modern highly distributed, cloud based applications by combining high frequency performance metrics collection and analysis with its unique understanding of the real-time application topology.

Boundary is privately held, based in Mountain View, CA and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Adams Street Partners and Triangle Peak Partners.

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