Cloud Native Observability

About the Authors

Kenichi Shibata is a cloud native architect at esure, specializing in cloud observability, security, cloud migration, and cloud native microservices implementation and architecture. He has worked in multiple global industries ranging from banking and insurance to media and retailing across Europe and Asia. He and his family are based in the United Kingdom.

Rob Skillington is the cofounder and CTO of Chronosphere. He was previously at Uber, where he was the technical lead of the observability team and creator of M3DB, the time-series database at the core of M3. He has worked in both large engineering organizations such as Microsoft and Groupon and a handful of startups. He and his family are based in New York City, where he mainly spends weekends exploring all of New York’s playgrounds and also following his wife’s jazz adventures.

Martin Mao is the cofounder and CEO of Chronosphere. He was previously at Uber, where he led the development and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams that created and operated M3. Prior to that, he was a technical lead on the EC2 team at Amazon Web Services and has also worked for Microsoft and Google. He and his family are based in Seattle, and he enjoys playing soccer and eating meat pies in his spare time.