S10 E15: Hannes Lenke, Checkly

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Hannes Lenke was born in East Germany. He started tinkering with computers at an early age, and became interested in making games at the age of 10. Once the browsers came out, he quickly dove into the world of web development. He also has a background in trading stocks, which he started when he was 14, along with software development consulting for enterprise. Outside of tech, he's married with 2 daughters. He lives in a small town close to Berlin, and enjoys running, rowing, and cooking out on his grill. In 2010, Hannes founded a startup centered around testing. Post exit, he noticed that more and more businesses were using end to end testing... AND, the world was changing toward devops and observability. He decided that a new tool needed to be made along the lines of synthetic monitoring. This is the creation story of Checkly. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by AMI. Hardware asset management is hard, and most companies are wasting time and effort on a bad solution.
0:08.2	Asset Management International, or AMI, has been making software to simplify the ham process for over 20 years.
0:15.7	Their automated tools help companies keep tabs on their equipment, from storage to what's on your desk.
0:21.2	Head over to amitracks.com to request a demo today.
0:26.3	We had this vision of monitoring as code in mind from the start, but practically got early traction.
0:33.3	So we had paying customers that came to us without even supporting monitoring as code.
0:38.7	We started to solve their problems for four months without even investing time into our vision.
0:46.0	After almost two years, actually, we took a step back thinking about okay.
0:51.2	That's cool that we're having customers, that we're having paying customers. But what is the bigger problem that we actually want to solve and really thought about okay that's cool that we're having customers that we're having paying customers but what is
0:55.0	the bigger problem that we actually want to solve and really thought about okay we need to invest
0:59.4	time into monitoring this code and that's what we did the first iteration wasn't wasn't great to be
1:04.5	honest my name is hannis lenke i'm co-founder and CEO of Czechic.
1:14.6	This is Code Story.
1:18.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
1:19.8	Six months moonlighting.
1:21.4	It's nice and out the backcans.
1:24.3	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
1:25.7	I don't exactly know what to do next. It took many goes to get right.
1:28.2	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:30.8	The company is its people.
1:32.2	The teams help each other achieve.
1:33.5	Most proud of our team.
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