Back in September 2015, Cloudius Systems pivoted, rebranding itself as ScyllaDB. When Cloudius Systems was founded, the company was all about its OSv operating system for the cloud, but as ScyllaDB, the focus is on the company’s eponymous NoSQL technology…
Confluent announced on March 7 that it has raised a new $50 million Series C round of funding to help further its effort to support and commercialize Apache Kafka streaming data technology. The funding round was led by Sequoia and…
Mailgun is once again on its own. Cloud and hosting services vendor Rackspace acquired email platform vendor Mailgun back in 2012 and is now spinning Mailgun out on its own. Mailgun describes itself as an email automation platform for developers.…
A basic promise of open-source code is that even if a company goes out of business, the source code can live on. Back in October 2016, after seven years of effort, the company behind the popular open-source RethinkDB database announced…
In the modern world of DevOps, in which application code is constantly being written and re-written in an agile approach, it’s critical to have a continuous testing regimen. The demand for continuous testing is helping to propel software testing Tricentis…
Databricks announced on December 15 that it has raised $60 million in Series C funding to help grow it commercial aspirations in support of the open-source Apache Spark project. To date, Databricks has raised a total of $107.5 million in…
The open-source CrateDB database hit a major milestone on December 14 with the debut of its 1.0 release. CrateDB defines itself as a SQL database that enables real-time analytics for machine data applications. What is also particularly interesting about CrateDB…
The open-source Apache Zeppelin project is an increasingly popular, web-based notebook for interactive data analytics that directly integrates with the Apache Spark project for Big Data analytics. Among the commercial backers of Zeppelin is ZEPL, formerly known as NFLabs. On…
Building modern applications is not about building a monolith, but rather is about using the right building blocks to pull in the right components and data. SnapLogic is a data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS) vendor that…
On November 29, 2016 the Node.js Foundation announced a major effort to help further grow and stabilize node.js on different virtual machines (VMs). By enabling node.js to be VM-neutral, the hope is that it can be used by application developers…