Today, Google Cloud announced Kubeflow pipelines and AI Hub, two tools designed to help data scientists put the models they create to work across their organizations. Rajen Sheth, director of product management for Google Cloud’s AI and ML products says that the company recognized that data scientists too often build models that never get used. […]
View More Google Cloud wants to make it easier for data scientists to share modelsCategory: open source
Neo4j nabs $80M Series E as graph database tech flourishes
Neo4j has helped popularize the graph database. Today it was rewarded with an $80 million Series E to bring their products to a wider market in what could be the company’s last private fundraise. The round was led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital with participation from existing investors Creandum, Eight Roads […]
View More Neo4j nabs $80M Series E as graph database tech flourishesIBM is betting the farm on Red Hat — and it better not mess up
Who expects a $34 billion deal involving two enterprise powerhouses to drop on a Sunday afternoon, but IBM and Red Hat surprised us yesterday when they pulled the trigger on a historically large deal. IBM has been a poster child for a company moving through a painful transformation. As Box CEO (and IBM business partner) Aaron […]
View More IBM is betting the farm on Red Hat — and it better not mess upSpinnaker is the next big open source project to watch
Spinnaker is an open source continuous delivery (CD) platform from Netflix and Google, though it now also has the backing of other major software companies. Spinnaker 1.0 launched last July, so it’s not the newest kid on the block, but the service is slowly but surely gaining momentum now, with users that include Target, Adobe, […]
View More Spinnaker is the next big open source project to watchThe Node.js and JavaScript foundations want to merge
There are currently two main open source foundations that focus on JavaScript: the JavaScript (JS) Foundation, which was founded in 2016, and the Node.js Foundation, which launched in 2015. The JS Foundation’s mission is to shepherd the ecosystem around the language while Node.js obviously focuses on the Node.js technology for using JavaScript server-side with the […]
View More The Node.js and JavaScript foundations want to mergeJFrog lands $165 M investment as valuation jumps over $1 billion
JFrog wants to change the way we deal with software updates. Instead of large numbered updates you have to manually download, it sees a future of continuous delivery where software is delivered as binaries and updated in the background. Investors must like that vision very much because they showered the company with a $165 million […]
View More JFrog lands $165 M investment as valuation jumps over $1 billionSnyk raises $22M on a $100M valuation to detect security vulnerabilities in open source code
Open source software is now a $14 billion+ market and growing fast, in use in one way or another in 95 percent of all enterprises. But that expansion comes with a shadow: open source components can come with vulnerabilities, and so their widespread use in apps become a liability to a company’s cybersecurity. Now, a […]
View More Snyk raises $22M on a $100M valuation to detect security vulnerabilities in open source codeAI could help push Neo4j graph database growth
Graph databases have always been useful to help find connections across a vast data set, and it turns out that capability is quite handy in artificial intelligence and machine learning too. Today, Neo4j, the makers of the open source and commercial graph database platform, announced the release of Neo4j 3.5, which has a number of […]
View More AI could help push Neo4j graph database growthAnswering its critics, Google loosens reins on AMP project
Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, has been a controversial project since its debut. The need for the framework has been clear: the payloads of mobile pages can be just insane, what with layers and layers of images, Javascript, ad networks, and more slowing down page rendering time and costing users serious bandwidth on metered plans. […]
View More Answering its critics, Google loosens reins on AMP projectCommons Clause stops open-source abuse
There’s a dark cloud on the horizon. The behavior of cloud infrastructure providers, such as Amazon, threatens the viability of open source.
View More Commons Clause stops open-source abuseHasura debuts open source event system to simplify serverless development
Hasura, a company that creates tools for developers on top of the popular Postgres database, is introducing a new product in public Alpha today aimed at helping programmers build serverless apps more quickly and efficiently. The idea is to simplify function writing by offering an open source event system on top of Postgres to trigger […]
View More Hasura debuts open source event system to simplify serverless developmentArmory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses
Armory, a startup that has built a CI/CD platform on top the open source Spinnaker project, announced a $10 million Series A today led by Crosslink Capital. Other investors included Bain Capital Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, YCombinator and Robin Vasan. Software development certainly has changed over the last several years, going from long cycles between […]
View More Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses