Startup Spotlight: Subtrace brings DevTools-style inspection to backend requests
Adhityaa Chandrasekar and Sachin Sridhar built Subtrace, a BPF-based request inspector designed to give backend teams visibility without code changes.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Y Combinator
Why it matters
Backend incidents can take longer to resolve when the failing request is missing from logs and traces. Subtrace's founders are betting that capturing every request at the process level, with no code changes, lets engineers inspect it directly.
The founders
Subtrace was built by Adhityaa Chandrasekar and Sachin Sridhar, who say they met more than 10 years ago as undergraduates. As they put it in their launch post on Y Combinator: "We met 10+ years ago as undergrads and we've been great friends ever since."…
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