Author: Ran Nozik

CTO and co-founder of Helios. An experienced R&D leader, and mathematician at heart. Passionate about improving modern software development, and a big fan of and contributor to OpenTelemetry. After serving as an officer in unit 8200 and leading R&D efforts in the cybersecurity department, working as a Senior Software Developer, and becoming an Engineering Team Leader, Ran co-founded Helios, a production-readiness platform for developers. Ran holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Unlock the power of OpenTelemetry and Helios through the OTel community demo

Developers can now experience hands-on the combined value of OTel and Helios when building distributed applications   OpenTelemetry (OTel), the emerging industry standard for collecting observability data, recently announced the GA of its demo application – and this is good news for distributed tracing fans. Developers can now get a good glimpse of the value […]

Testing microservices with Helios

Microservices architectures require a new type of testing. Here’s why traditional testing types fail and which new automated testing solutions can help.

Why APM distributed tracing is not enough for developers

What is Distributed Tracing? Distributed tracing is a method of tracking requests as they propagate through a distributed system. A trace is built from spans. Each span represents an interaction, like an HTTP request, a DB query, a serverless function invocation, etc. A trace is essentially a tree of spans. Based on the collected span […]

Observability – for your test runs too

When testing distributed applications, logs and traces generated from microservices are often not available, leaving developers in the dark. Here’s how test instrumentation with OpenTelemetry helps solve this challenge.   “Cloud native” – working in distributed systems using microservices and DevOps – has promised a lot, and indeed delivered a lot. Among the biggest benefits, […]