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Nishant Modak

Founder at Last9. Loves building dev tools and listening to The Beatles.

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Software Observability from the Lens of Radar and a Black Box

Software Observability from the Lens of Radar and a Black Box

Observability is often a misunderstood and misused term.  It has come to mean nothing and everything at this point. Read more on how Observability can be viewed from the lens of a Radar and a Black Box.

Nishant Modak

Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures

Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures

What does the Rasmussen model teach us about Site Reliability Engineering?

Nishant Modak

Take back control of your Monitoring

Take back control of your Monitoring

Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate - a managed time series data warehouse

Nishant Modak

The neglected tech arctic winter — Internal SaaS expenses

The neglected tech arctic winter — Internal SaaS expenses

The current tech winter reveals a hard truth: spending on internal tools for tech infrastructure is bloated—and this isn't just a passing cycle.

Nishant Modak

Introducing Levitate: Uplift Your Metrics Management

Introducing Levitate: Uplift Your Metrics Management

Managing time series databases is hard. We've evolved to services, yet monitoring lags. Our solution powers critical workloads at a lower cost.

Nishant Modak

Why We Auto-Delete Slack Messages at Last9

Why We Auto-Delete Slack Messages at Last9

At Last9, we auto-delete Slack DMs after 2 days. This pushes teams to improve documentation, reduce tribal knowledge, and own accountability.

Nishant Modak

We’ve raised a $11M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India!

We’ve raised a $11M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India!

Exciting news! We've secured an $11M Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital India to fuel our growth and innovation at Last9!

Nishant Modak

Services; not Server

Services; not Server

Gone are the days of yore when we named are our servers Etsy, Betsy, and Momo, fed them fish, and cleaned their poop.

Nishant Modak, Piyush Verma

Systems Observability

Systems Observability

Observability is not just about being able to ask questions to your systems. It's also about getting those answers in minutes and not hours.

Nishant Modak, Piyush Verma