I’m excited to share that today, we’re making Helios available to all developers around the world for free. Helios is a developer platform that helps increase dev velocity and productivity when building cloud-native applications. Over the past few months we’ve worked closely with dozens of private beta users to build a product that we believe will make a difference.

In distributed application environments, to solve problems in code you need to be able to connect the dots between all the different places where your code runs, including frameworks like Databricks and Apache Airflow. The Databricks pipeline may be one of the most crucial places where your code runs, but the visibility you’re getting there is limited.

Testing today’s environments is more challenging than it was a few years ago. The transition to distributed environments has created complexity, overhead, and friction when writing and running new backend tests. These tests require a lot of preparation, infrastructure building, and maintenance since many services communicate asynchronously and they often miss exceptions that are thrown on the “deeper layer” of the system architecture and it’s hard to make it testable.

Within the technology stack used by developers today you would be hard-pressed not to find products and features that save time. Time-saving tools are crucial for developers because we look for ways to deliver production-ready code faster to keep up with the demands of our users and customers. We want to be able to identify, reproduce, and fix issues – fast.