The other significant point is that technology, like the evolution of the life-forms that spawned it, is inherently an accelerating process.

Ray Kurzweil, “The age of spiritual machines”

Anybody involved in writing code, from the lone hobbyist developer to Fortune 500 companies, cannot miss the acceleration we are going through in software technologies.

While twenty years ago web developers were facing just a few choices in determining their favourite software stack, nowadays we have to decide among thousands of possible combinations of development languages, frameworks and databases – just to mention a few areas. And this acceleration doesn’t just stop at tools; we face new challenges in making our code run in multiple environments (and in the cloud), challenges like coping with traffic generated by 3+ billions of internet users, and challenges in keeping our data safe from malicious attacks.

When looking at the landscape from this angle, it is surprising companies are still able to cope with this accelerating complexity and still produce software that works, and serve hundred of millions of users. However that’s no small task, especially for small and medium companies: keeping always up to date with the latest security advisories, with the latest bug fixes and new software updates takes a lot of effort.

At this point the perfect first blog post should pull the proverbial rabbit out of a hat, and announce we have a solution. More humbly, at Meterian we can say we are embarking on a path to make all that easier; to make a platform that works together with developers in analysing the code and finding ways to improve it, to prevent bugs and, most importantly, security issues. We call it continuous security.