Back in the early days of Aspen Mesh, we often said that if you couldn’t draw your microservice architecture on a whiteboard you probably couldn’t manage it with humans alone. Even with all the tools available today, people still can’t fully realize the power of their cloud-native environment.
At Aspen Mesh, our heritage is shaping early service mesh code. We are a top contributor of Open Source Istio, and we pioneered mesh implementation for some of the world’s largest enterprises and service providers. We have delved into the intricacies of cloud-native, leveraging our Kubernetes and Istio expertise and left no stone unturned in the pursuit of higher performance at scale.
Why we’re building the Aspen App Intelligence Platform
Aspen’s App Intelligence Platform uses AI and ML to understand and predict what is impacting an application’s performance. Our platform makes it possible for any app owner to leverage Kubernetes and Istio data and capabilities to make their app behave optimally without being an expert in those technologies.
We have seen the complexity of microservices environments test the most elite modern app teams – and for everyone else it’s absolutely untenable to manage it well. At best, you miss the opportunity to improve app performance, at worst it causes a crisis situation with irreversible ramifications – like a loss of customer trust, profitability or reputation.
Looking around, it didn’t take long to notice something was missing in the market – although Kubernetes and Istio are managed by knowledgeable operations teams, there’s no way for app owners – and even developers – to take advantage of these technologies and architectures because they lack the expertise. Our platform gives a user easy access to everything inside their microservices environment that drives app performance and impacts SLOs.
The problems we’re focused on
Empowering development teams to enable their applications to optimize themselves is at the core of our vision. At Aspen, we can see a near-future modern environment that’s able to scale your applications reliably and timely to meet SLOs while optimizing resources, let you deploy anytime with total confidence, and allow you to scale and manage your applications to multiple clusters and regions as if they were local.
To realize this vision, we are applying AI and ML to the data and tools already available in microservices environments and focusing on three key areas that our users tell us they struggle with the most – even after successfully deploying and managing Kubernetes and service mesh.
Join our Early Access group to start using our App Intelligence Platform now
The best way to show you what we’re working on is to have you see it for yourself. I invite you to request Early Access now to get full access to the platform and be the first to try new solutions as we release them. Getting started takes just a few minutes, and you’ll get new insight into your app’s behavior on Day One.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to have a conversation with us about absolutely anything. We aren’t selling anything today – instead we want people to use our platform – if you like it, let us know.
This is a chance to help shape what we’re building — if you’re open to collaborative sessions and testing our solutions as we iterate, please request access or better yet, send me an email or email Brian, our Technical Product Manager.
-Shawn
