Cloud veterans launch ConfigHub to fix ‘configuration hell’

A trio of cloud industry leaders have launched a new company with the mission of modernizing software configuration data management. Emerging from stealth today with $4 million in funding, ConfigHub is the handiwork of CEO Alexis Richardson, founder of cloud-native container management platform Weaveworks; CTO Brian Grant, former Google software engineer and original lead architect of Kubernetes; and CPO Jesper Joergensen, who led in various product roles at Salesforce (including Heroku) before joining Twilio to lead its voice, video and platform teams. Richardson told TechCrunch that their new company is setting out to “get people out of config hell.” If this just made you blurt out, “huh?” let us explain. In July last year, CrowdStrike issued an awry configuration update to its Falcon Sensor security software, causing widespread havoc and more than $5 billion in losses for Fortune 500 companies. Delta Airlines said it lost $500 million as a result of flight disruptions, kickstarti ... Read full article.