Voste Solutions Ltd

Monitoring vendor Boundary is part of a new wave of companies that provide peripheral services to the new style of applications being built – applications that are distributed, have to deal with rapid scaling, bring together many different services and live in the cloud. Boundary’s goal is to give operations personnel a “single pane of glass” over all the different aspects of their application – it does so by delivering real-time operational data. It’s interesting to look at Boundary’s recently released growth numbers to extrapolate out just how much this new type of application is growing as developers embrace a new architecture in their work. Boundary is now analyzing up to two trillion different metrics, fully 25% of which are originating with Amazon Web Services. This is a 400% increase on what Boundary was seeing a year ago. Now of course some of this growth comes down to Boundary increasing its sales and marketing, but alongside that, the massive increase is an indicator for more general changes in the development process.