WhatA platform that generates fully instrumented, observable API client libraries for third-party services — with built-in tracing, timeout controls, and fault injection — so engineering teams don't have to write their own.
SignalMercury's engineering team writes all their own API clients from scratch because third-party libraries are black boxes that can't be traced, timed out properly, or tested against partner outages — this is a massive tax on every serious engineering org.
Why NowDistributed systems and microservices are now the norm, observability tooling (OpenTelemetry) has matured into a standard, and LLMs can now accelerate the generation of typed, instrumented client code at scale.
MarketPlatform engineering teams at mid-to-large companies; $2B+ observability market (Datadog, Honeycomb); competes with hand-rolled clients and basic SDK generators like OpenAPI Generator, but none produce observable-by-construction outputs.
MoatLibrary of pre-built, tested integrations with hundreds of APIs creates compounding value — each new client added makes the platform stickier and harder to replicate.
A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at MercuryView discussion ↗ · Article ↗ · 418 pts · May 3, 2026
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