The Humainary Initiative is dedicated to revolutionizing the engineering of complex systems by championing three core principles: sensibility, simplicity, and sophistication. Our mission is to empower engineers and organizations to build, operate, and evolve systems that are not only highly observable and adaptable but also intuitive and resilient in the face of increasing complexity. The future of observability is all about creating new toolkits, instruments, and taxonomies that let us understand how systems work at various scales and across state spaces.
Substrates
The Substrates API provides a flexible framework for building event-driven and observability systems by combining concepts of circuits, conduits, channels, pipes, subscribers, subscriptions, and subjects. The API is well-suited for:
- Real-time data processing pipelines
- Event-driven architectures with dynamic subscriptions
- Observability frameworks and instrumentation
- Digital Twin mirrored state and computational processing units
https://github.com/humainary-io/substrates-api-java
Serventis
Serventis is a semiotic-inspired observability framework designed to provide structured sensing and sense-making for distributed systems. It defines a contract for monitoring system states and service interactions through a standardized language of signals and assessments, enabling adaptive intelligence without enforcing a specific implementation.
Serventis consists of:
- Monitors API – Tracks the operational condition of services, assessing state transitions with confidence levels.
- Services API – A semiotics lens on service-to-service interactions via signs, signals, and orientations
By separating observation from interpretation, Serventis enables the integration of agents, machine learning models, and scorecards, allowing for context-aware reasoning and autonomous situational awareness. It is a foundational layer for intelligent observability, supporting distributed coordination, adaptive control, and multi-perspective analysis.